Applied Social Sciences: Communication Studies

Gheorghe Clitan currently works as an Associate Professor at the West University of Timişoara, Romania. He holds a BA and a PhD in Philosophy from the “Babeş-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His main areas of interest are thinking, rhetoric, pragmatics and information theory. He authored Pragmatics and Postmodernism: On the Game between Rationality and Presuppositions in the Metaphilosophical Approach of Culture (2002) and Critical Thinking: A Micromonograph (2003), and co-authored A Guide for Solving Logical Reasoning Tests (2010).

Patricia-Luciana Runcan currently works as a Senior Lecturer at the West University of Timişoara, Romania. She holds a BA in Sociology from the same University, a BA in Law from the “Tibiscus” University of Timişoara, and a PhD in Sociology from the West University of Timişoara. She has authored Social Workers Face to Face with Their Clients (2006), Social Work: Family and Child (2008), Child Protection in Romania (2009), The National System of Social Work (2009), Depression in the Elderly (2010), Successful Scientific Paper in Humanities (2010), and The Case Management Method (2011).