%0 Journal Article %T Engagement citoyen et soci¨¦t¨¦ civile %A Gautier Pirotte %J SociologieS %D 2009 %I Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Fran?aise %X Cet article cherche ¨¤ rapprocher par la r¨¦flexion la notion de soci¨¦t¨¦ civile de celle de l¡¯engagement citoyen ¨¤ partir de l¡¯exp¨¦rience postcommuniste roumaine. Si le domaine de la soci¨¦t¨¦ civile ne concentre pas tous les ph¨¦nom¨¨nes d¡¯engagement citoyen, il demeure n¨¦anmoins un espace privil¨¦gi¨¦ d¡¯expression de cet engagement. La question qui anime ce texte est assez simple : comment envisager l¡¯¨¦tude de l¡¯engagement du citoyen ¨¤ l¡¯int¨¦rieur des nouvelles soci¨¦t¨¦s civiles d¡¯Europe Centrale et Orientale, et plus sp¨¦cifiquement au sein de la nouvelle soci¨¦t¨¦ civile roumaine ? Cette interrogation, si simple soit-elle, se r¨¦v¨¨le bien vite plus complexe si l¡¯on tient compte des probl¨¨mes que soul¨¨vent ¨¤ la fois les concepts de soci¨¦t¨¦ civile et d¡¯engagement mobilis¨¦s ici mais aussi l¡¯exp¨¦rience postcommuniste souvent abord¨¦e de mani¨¨re homog¨¨ne alors qu¡¯elle se r¨¦v¨¨le empiriquement tr¨¨s h¨¦t¨¦roclite. Citizen commitment and civil society. A reflexion based upon the Romanian project of post-communist civil societyUsing the post-communist experience in Romania, this article reflects upon the way to bring together the concepts of civil society and citizen commitment. Whilst civil society does not concentrate all the phenomena of citizenship, the concept remains nonetheless a privileged expression of citizen commitment. The question underlying this text is relatively simple: how should the study of citizen commitment be approached within the new civil societies of Central and Eastern Europe, and more specifically within the new Romanian civil society ? As simple as it may appear, the question becomes rapidly more complex as soon as the problems deriding from the concepts of civil society and citizen commitment themselves are taken into consideration but also because the post-communist experience is often treated in a homogeneous way whilst it is in fact empirically very heterogeneous. Compromiso ciudadano y sociedad civil. Reflexi¨®n sobre el modelo rumano de sociedad civil poscomunistaSe trata en este art¨ªculo de unir la noci¨®n de sociedad civil a la noci¨®n de compromiso ciudadano, tomando como ejemplo la experiencia postcomunistas rumana. Si el contexto de la sociedad civil no concentra todas las modalidades del compromiso ciudadano, sigue siendo un espacio privilegiado para concretizar dicho compromiso. La cuesti¨®n que anima este art¨ªculo es simple: como debe y puede ser analizado el compromiso del ciudadano de las nuevas democracias de Europa oriental y en particular de Rumania? Aunque esta interrogaci¨®n nos parezca simple es en realidad mas compleja de lo que %K postcommunisme %K engagement citoyen %K soci¨¦t¨¦ civile %K Roumanie %U http://sociologies.revues.org/3017