%0 Journal Article %T BEYOND CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: A SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH %A ANA PASCARU %J Agathos : an International Review of the Humanities and Social Sciences %D 2013 %I Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Ia?i %X This paper represents a synthesis of several longitudinal investigations, aiming to elucidate the quantum of challenges of the contemporary society condition and its particularities in a developing society, like the Moldavian one, and how the new democracies try to find their places in the context of changes since the 2008 world economic crisis. %K contemporary society %K development %K confluence %K multicultural %K challenge %U http://www.agathos-international-review.com/issue4_1/15.Articol%20-%20Ana%20Pascaru.pdf