European Journal of Science and Theology, June 2013, Vol.9, Supplement 2, 73-84 _______________________________________________________________________ THE RECONSTRUCTION OF ROMANIAN SOCIETY Alfred Bulai * National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, 6 Povernei Str., 010648, Bucharest, Romania (Received 26 March 2013) Abstract Our article aims to analyses an epistemological and a sociological issue. When we use, as scientists, the term ‘reconstruction’ we admit tacitly that there is a social agent that could or should make this kind of intervention. Institutional or individual, political or social, this agent can be put (and many thinks that must be put) in charge with this. Moreover, we admit also in the same tacit manner that us, as specialists in social or political field, we have the power to influence the process of changing Romanian society, and not anyway, but in a proper direction, that signifying emancipation, democratization and prosperity, all these obtained through a good governance. My objective is to demonstrate that this kind of assertions has several problems. Taking in consideration a major theoretical perspective that deals with the role of the social scientist in emancipation – public sociology, I will demonstrate that there are not really chances to reconstruct anything. Or, in other words, it is impossible to develop any kind of scenario regarding the role of political or social scientist (academic or not) in the process of changing the society in a normative direction. If we keep in mind only the moral or scientific values and if we appeal only to theoretical studies or empirical analyses we could maybe understand better the Romanian society, but we will cannot construct or reconstruct anything. Keywords: public sociology, social change, knowledge, enlightened political parties, social changing agent 1. Introduction In our public debate, it was legitimized for a long period the idea that Romania needs radical changes, deep structural reforms of the state and society. In fact, this kind of changes is the main attribute of transition. Under various labels such as: ‘modernization’, ‘state modernization,’ ‘Europeanization’, ‘Westernization’ the Romanian political class assumed programmatically this change in the last two decades. It is true that the intellectual elite have also systematically put pressure on the Romanian public space proposing the same topics. Moreover, social and political scientists have often worked in last two * E-mail: alfbulai@yahoo.com