标题：THE SOCIAL IDENTITY OF CERTAIN ETHNICALLY IMPRINTED URBAN AREAS, IN THE CASE OF TÂRGU JIU, HIGHLIGHTED THROUGH CONTENT ANALYSIS ON THE PRESS IN THE TRANSITION PERIOD
摘要：The present paper arguments in favour of (and justifies) using a combined methodological arsenal (qualitative-quantitative in trying to complete the geographical field research based on observation) for a more precise reading of the urban (social) space. The present study gives an account of the results of one of the components we have monitored in the local press analysis from 1990 to 2007, in our attempt to continue analysing the local inter-ethnical residential socio-spatial relations observed for the time span of almost two centuries, during the transition period, in the case of the Olt and Jiu bordered sub-carpathic urban space. The most interesting and complex results for this aspect have been obtained in the case of Târgu Jiu. For the analysis we have used the thematic and the relational analysis for the titles of the articles in Gorjeanul paper which referred to the monitored aspects, using emerging coding analysis in eight stages. The results have indicated: the intensity of the press representation of the different urban spaces which are strongly ethnically imprinted; the gradual modification of the perception and of the way these spaces are reflected; the social issue of these minority urban communities which are spatially concentrated; the way certain spaces and minority communities relate with predilection to political or administrative concepts from the local or national spheres, or to ethnical or official structures of organisation.
