Cătălin Augustin Stoica

Cătălin Augustin Stoica

Professor

Office:
30A Expoziției Blvd., Room 703

Courses taught

Research Methods and Techniques in Sociology and Psychology; Social Survey Methodology; Social Stratification and Inequalities; Economic Anthropology (advanced studies/master’s); Social Stratification and Mobility (advanced studies/master’s); Social Theory

Courses in the bachelor’s programme · Sociology

Research interests

Social research methodology; social stratification and inequalities; sociology of economic life; economic anthropology; quantitative methods; conspiracy theories; social movements; sociology of transition.

Short biography

He is a professor of sociology and is qualified to supervise PhD students. He earned his PhD at Stanford University in 2005, where he taught introductory sociology and the sociology of socialist and post-socialist societies. From 2007 to 2015 he directed the Centre for Urban and Regional Sociology (CURS).

Publications

  • Turul doi care n-a fost · Humanitas, 2025
  • Introducere în studiul stratificării și mobilității sociale · Tritonic, 2022
  • Suspicious Minds in Times of Crisis: Determinants of Romanians’ Beliefs in Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories · with Radu Umbres, 2020
  • România continuă: Schimbare și adaptare în comunism și postcomunism · Humanitas, 2018
  • Iarna vrajbei noastre · co-edited with Vintilă Mihăilescu, Paideia, 2012

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