The cooperatist sector - social involvement. The development regions of Bucharest - Ilfov and south-east, Romania

Filip Alexandrescu

Journal of Community Positive Practices, 2011, issue 1, 71-92

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to underline the social importance of the cooperatives from the regions of Bucharest-Ilfov the South-East of Romania. In this paper there was made a comparison between the sector of the social economy and the cooperative movement being brought strong argumentations in the favor of subscribing the cooperatives to the social economy sector. The cooperative movement may represent a source of renewal for the social economy in all. From this point of view, the function of social protection can’t be conceived in an isolated way but has to be seen as being in a tight relation with the cooperation’s involvement in the economical system of the society. The results of the study that was made on a number of 235 cooperatives from the regions that were analyzed showed that from the point of view of the social protection function, the cooperatives have a less significant importance. The lack of a now and then help of their members, persons that belong to a vulnerable social group suggests the possibility that the produced problems by the economical activities of the cooperation to be so low that to be needed only limited interventions. The future researches should come with solutions for the surviving and the enrichment of the economical performances of the social cooperatives that represent instruments with a high potential as concerning the function of social protection of the vulnerable social groups.

Keywords: social economy; social cooperative; social protection; vulnerable social group; community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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