Dan Gheorghe Dungaciu (born October 3, 1968) is a

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n sociologist.

Biography

He was born in

Târgu Mureș Târgu Mureș (, ; hu, Marosvásárhely ) is the seat of Mureș County in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. It is the 16th largest Romanian city, with 134,290 inhabitants as of the 2011 census. It lies on the Mureș River, the ...

. He graduated from the

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in 1995 and received his Ph.D. in 2002. He teaches at the University of Bucharest. He served as Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania. Dungaciu obtained Moldovan citizenship on July 16, 2010, when he became an advisor for European Integration for president

Mihai Ghimpu Mihai Ghimpu (born 19 November 1951) is a Moldovan politician who served as Speaker of Parliament and Acting President of Moldova from 2009 to 2010. He was member of Parliament of Moldova from 1990 to 1998 and from 2009 to 2019. Ghimpu held the ...

. He married Moldovan journalist Stela Popa in October 2012.

On Republic of Moldova

Dungaciu is a supporter of the Romanian language in the Republic of Moldova. In 2022 he wrote that the Chisinau Government can introduce the Romanian language into the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova without a vote in Parliament. Dungaciu has been a supporter of Moldovan President

Maia Sandu Maia Sandu (; born 24 May 1972) is a Moldovan politician who has been the President of Moldova since 24 December 2020. She is the former leader of the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) and former Prime Minister of Moldova from 8 June 2019 ...

and has acurattely predicted that her party would get a good result in the early elections of 2021. Dungaciu characterised Maia Sandu as a winner and affirmed that Sandu would be capable of calling early elections.

Awards

Dan Dungaciu is laureate of the ''

Dimitrie Gusti Dimitrie Gusti (; 13 February 1880 – 30 October 1955) was a Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and voluntarist philosopher; a professor at the University of Iaşi and the University of Bucharest, he served as Romania's Minister o ...

'' prize for sociology offered by the

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(1995) and the International Prize for Sociology of the University of Istanbul (2001). In 2009, the

interim President of Moldova The President of the Republic of Moldova () is the head of state of Moldova. The current president is Maia Sandu, who assumed office on 24 December 2020. Duties and functions The office of the presidency in Moldova is largely ceremonial, w ...

signed a decree on bestowing an '' Order of Honour'' ( ro, Ordinul de Onoare) on Dan Dungaciu.Dan Dungaciu, decorated by President of Republic of Moldova
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Works

* ''Sociologia şi geopolitica frontierei'' (coauthor), 2 volume, 1995. * ''Istoria sociologiei. Teorii contemporane'' (coautor), 1996. * ''"Reţelele omeniei" şi reţelele mistificării'', 1997. * ''Enciclopedia valorilor reprimate'', 2 volume, 2000 (coautor) * ''Statul şi comunitatea morală. Memorii (1904–1910)'', Traian Brăileanu, (ediţie îngrijită, studiu introductiv şi repere bibliografice de Dan Dungaciu), 2002. * ''Sociologia românească interbelică în context european'', 2002. * ''Naţiunea şi provocările (post)modernităţii'', 2002. * ''Moldova ante portas'', 2005. * ''Cine suntem noi? Cronici de la Est de Vest'', Editura Cartier, Colectia Cartier Istoric, 2009.

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Biography

On Republic of Moldova

Awards

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