Cultural Values Of Urban Population. Case Study: Cultural Values Of The Romanians In The Regions South-West Oltenia, South-Walachia And West

This article aims to present the relations between urban area and culture, to reveal the specific of urban values and examine traditional and current cultural values of urban population, emphasizing by choice representative values for Romanians in three development regions. The article initially focuses on getting a perspective of the contemporary values in urban cultural area, resulting from theoretical approaches from different fields. In the second part of the article we presented the investigative field research based on opinion survey and participative observation conducted on the urban population of three Romanian development regions: South-West Oltenia, South-Walachia and West. The research sought to identify the current values of the urban population, the level of knowledge of cultural infrastructure and the desire of cultural consumption of citizens in urban area, to learn the level of interest for cultural activities by measuring the frequency of participation in cultural events but also visits of cultural institutions, to know the level of trust in public institutions that the people comprised in the sample give, to highlight the conservation or superannuation of traditions in contemporary society and to identify the possibilities of access to cultural goods of cities.