Symbolic Capital and Cultural Dimensions in Romanian Educational Organizations

Organized in the Western part of Romania, we have investigated the role of symbolic capital as a generator of more opened relational patterns in an educational environment. We have found a problematic profile of teacher from universities, comparing with the profile of teachers from secondary schools (higher social cynicism or power distance for academic sample), that indicates the spreading of duplicitous social symptoms as a functional way of acting and thinking in Romanian educational organizations. Thus, the thesis of relational modernization (as higher the subject is in symbolic capital as less he/she is in duplicitous) is refuted, underlining the role of social attitudes and values rooted in cultural history centered on dependency, assistentialism and precarious self-determination.