Personalitate Şi Acţiune Socială

The paper discusses the relationship between personality and social action; a personality is considered a social actor undergoing a process of permanent formation, of self-affirmation as individual, actively involved in the social progress through personal or group activities. Similarly to the Universe, characterized by movement, a personality manifests its own nature through systematic activity, i.e. through social activity, within a specific social system. We take into consideration three types of fundamental attitudes a personality may adopt in connection with a social system, attitudes involving: a) the recognition and promotion of a specific social system, thus contributing to the social harmony; b) a certain “activism” enabling the personality to accelerate the pace of trends in one’s social system, generating its slow inner transformation through a so-called “velvet revolution”; c) the attitude of a personality less capable to self-integrate into the system, who becomes critical and even radical and revolutionary. The present study outlines the manifestation of the three types of fundamental attitudes a personality may adopt in connection with the social system from Romania during the totalitarian communist era as well as in the transition and post-transition period.