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Volunteering Among Higher Education Students as Part of Individual Career Management Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Hajnalka Fényes,Valéria Markos,Márta Mohácsi
In this study, we examine the motives behind higher education students’ volunteering and its determinants based on a survey (N=2,199) conducted in five Central and Eastern European countries. Based on the literature, we hypothesize that, besides traditional volunteering, which has the objective of helping others, it is also common to pursue career-focused volunteering, which is aimed at networking
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Evolution of the Interpretation of Poverty in Hungary between 2007 and 2019 Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Eszter Siposné Dr Nándori
The paper analyzes subjective poverty in Hungary. The results of the data collection in 2019 are compared to the results of former data collections carried out in 2007 and 2011. The methods of systematic data collection are used to collect data about the belief of the population. The paper concludes that poverty is mainly related to material values and it did not change in the examined period. Items
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Informal Status Among Adolescents: A Literature Review Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Ákos Bocskor
The paper provides an overview of the literature related to peer status and popularity. First, it reviews the theoretical and measurement issues related to the concept of popularity, then a review of the empirical findings with regards to the most important behavioral and personality correlates of status and popularity are presented. The correlates currently inspected are the following: athleticism
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Tracing a Vanishing Heritage: The Hungarian Rustbelt Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Eszter Bartha
Review of "A Factory Town that Belongs to the Past… Social Changes in Ózd and its Surroundings from the System Change until Today", by Péter Alabán (Kronosz Publishing House, 2020).
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Informal Family Carers’ Need for State-Guaranteed Support. What are the Implications for Social Policy? Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Laimutė Žalimienė,Jolita Junevičienė
The article uses an interpretive and qualitative framework to analyze elderly care policy with a focus on the instrumental effectiveness of this policy. The framework of the research offers an understanding of informal carers needs for formal support at the level of social policy measures. The micro-level inquiry, i.e., interviews with informal elderly carers, both revealing caregiver burden and evaluating
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Caring for Older People in the Post-Soviet Space: The Case of Russia Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Oksana Parfenova
In this article, we analyze eldercare in the post-Soviet space on the example of Russia. Our research questions are: How transforming the care arrangements of older adults in the post-soviet state? How do the transforming care arrangements affect the agency of the elderly? The materials for the analysis were qualitative interviews with older people, social workers, and experts from Russia (N= 31),
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Conditions of Change: The Regional Role of a Romanian Agricultural Secondary School Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Zoltán Biró A.,Ágnes Sárosi-Blága,Kinga Katalin Székely
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From Analytical Lenses and Social Policies: A Look From the Emotions Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Andrea Dettano
Social policies, as well as the ways of observing and defining them, require re-problematizations and revisions in the light of the structuring processes of this century. Because of this, this review aims to recover the central aspects of a recently published book, which addresses social policies from the social studies on emotions, observing how State interventions - with a growing scope and coverage
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Voluntary Social Insurance Policy Through the Evaluation of Workers in Tay Ho District, Hanoi City, Vietnam Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Linh Mai,Thi Kim Hoa Nguyen
Vietnam’s voluntary social insurance (VSI) policy has been in force since 2008 and by 2018 included 270,000 participants (accounting for 0.79% of the labor force). Hanoi City is the capital of Vietnam, with 21,156 participants (0.56%). The proportion of people participating in VSI is still very low. Workers who have at least 20 years of participation will receive a monthly pension and their beneficiaries
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Beyond the Front-Line: the Coping Strategies and Discretion of Lithuanian Street-Level Bureaucracy During COVID-19 Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Jaroslav Dvorak,Remigijus Civinskas,Gintaras Šumskas
This article presents the results of a project funded by the Research Council of Lithuania: ‘Public policy solutions and their improvement to overcome the COVID-19 crisis in Lithuanian municipalities: solution tools and service delivery.’ The research methodology is based on street-level bureaucracy theory and ongoing qualitative research in the form of interviews with social workers and doctors. Interviews
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Pragmatics of Eponyms in Political Discourse (On the Material of the Speeches of Politicians) Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Zharas Taubayev
Eponyms are complicated, unique constructs named after people and places used in special-professional areas of science. One of those specific areas is politics/political discourse. The main purpose of this article is to investigate the political discourse of politicians (Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin) in the period from 2012 to 2017 to reveal the pragmatic potential and skillful use of eponyms used
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Changing Social Values in Contemporary Tamil Society, India: a Qualitative Inquiry Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Karunanithi Gopalakrishnan
Social values in Indian society in general and Tamil society in particular are subject to fluctuation, in accordance with on-going social changes ushered in by various modern forces. Consequently, these values metamorphose and degenerate into counter-cultural practices that pose a threat to traditional culture. Modern people attribute new meanings to the unethical practices that they engage in by emphasizing
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The Representation of Trianon Trauma as a Chosen Trauma in Political Newspapers (1920–2010) in Hungary Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Barbara Ilg
The Treaty of Trianon and its consequences continue to be considered traumatic by both scholars and much of society in general. Trianon’s identification as a social or historical trauma not only spread amongst the public in general, but also penetrated historical discourse and journalism. A rather complex and controversial concept has been transposed from psychology to historiography. Hungarian historians
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The Influence of the ‘Tomos Narrative’ as a Part of the Ukrainian National and Strategic Narrative Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Artem Zakharchenko,Olena Zakharchenko
One of the most prominent parts of the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election was the mediatized topic of achieving Ukrainian church independence, and its symbol, the tomos document received from the Ecumenical Patriarch in January 2019. This process was a part of incumbent president Petro Poroshenko’s electoral campaign. Narrative analysis of this topic showed that it had a structure similar to that
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Essential Notions Concerning the Integration of Refugees Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Bertalan Decmann
The latest wave of refugees, which peaked in 2015, raises the question of what we mean by integration, not only in terms of the rules adopted in the EU, but also in terms of the social inclusion of individual refugees and their families. This is because the concepts in the literature, in EU documents on asylum, and in individual sectoral policies (e.g. social, employment, housing, health and public
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McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, by Ronald Purser (Repeater Books, 2019) Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Majd Jamal Hammoudeh
Review of McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, by Ronald Purser (Repeater Books, 2019). The McMindfulness book, with its thirteen chapters and a conclusion, aims at providing a critique of mindfulness as a discourse and a practice and challenges its contemporary usage and its commodification. It questions the credibility of contemporary mindfulness practice, focusing
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Britain and Europe at a Crossroads. The Politics of Anxiety and Transformation, by Andrew Ryder (Bristol University Press, 2020) Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Peter Futo
This is an interesting and coherent book which offers a specific interpretation of Brexit by examining the political discourse and investigating its linguistic and rhetoric context. The author applies the method of critical discourse analysis, which links the micro analysis of speech acts (speeches, public statements, political adverts, and interviews) with a macro approach that critically assesses
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Career Types and Career Satisfaction Among Sociology Doctoral Graduates of Corvinus University Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Boglárka Herke,Kitti Kutrovátz,Veronika Paksi,Éva Ivony
The academic profession has significantly transformed in the past few decades due to the industrialization of higher education and research. Based on sixteen career path interviews, the study investigates how the career paths of sociology doctoral graduates who obtained their master’s or PhD degree at Corvinus University of Budapest have been formed within this changing environment of the academic
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Political Participation, Volunteering During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hungary Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Dániel Mikecz,Dániel Oross
The COVID-19 pandemic has had massive, global-scale impacts. For therealization of policy goals, the pandemic calls for citizen co-production. Sincemost policies are voluntary, levers for encouraging compliance with them obligepublic servants to find ways to activate residents’ civic sense of duty. Suchefforts are likely to be more effective if they harness the popular legitimacyof intermediaries –
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Qualitative Research on Hungarian Mothers’ Social Situation and Mental Health During the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Réka Geambașu,Orsolya Gergely,Beáta Nagy,Nikolett Somogyi
Due to the social distancing measures ordered as protection against massinfection during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak, most Hungarian families wereconfined to home quarantine. Schools, kindergartens, and nursery schools wereclosed between 16 March and early June. Because grandparents belonged toone of the most vulnerable groups, families were asked not to involve themin childcare until the end of the
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Hungary in Mask/MASZK in Hungary Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Márton Karsai,Júlia Koltai,Orsolya Vásárhelyi,Gergely Röst
Social interactions represent one of the most important routes of transmissionof COVID-19 as they influence the potential patterns of diffusion of infectionthroughout different segments of the population. Despite their utmost importance,the scientific community is currently lacking data collection methods thatrecord social interactions dynamically and in detail, and in a privacy-respecting,representative
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In Trust We Thrive: What Drives the Sharing Economy? Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Kinga Szabó,Gauri Shankar Gupta
Rapid growth of sharing economy in the last two decades may signal a paradigm shift in global capitalism and societal values. Digital platforms have brought together strangers with under-utilized capacities and assets with those who need them without looking for ownership. The radius of trust which was initially confined to family, friends and local communities; now encompasses strangers who speak
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What to Do in Financial Markets? Preferences and Incoherences of Future Investors Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Júlio Lobão
The beliefs and strategies to be mobilized by individuals who are about to start their activity as investors in financial markets have been an issue scarcely explored in the field of sociology of finance. In this paper we present new evidence about the opinions of future investors recurring to a survey administered to 177 Master students of financial markets. Our results highlight the structural incoherence
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Contact Between Non-Resident Parents and Their Children During the COVID-19 in Hungary Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Ivett Szalma
Several studies have examined the factors that can influence contact betweennon-resident parents and their children (Goldberg & Carlson 2015, Skevik 2006).The distance between the place of residence of the non-resident parent and theirchild(ren) has been found to be important in terms of the frequency of in-personcontact (Manning et al. 2003; Cheadle et al. 2010). The majority of research onthis topic
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The Perception of Dietary Supplements Among Consumers Engaged in Sports on a Regular Basis Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Róbert Sándor Szűcs,Zoltán Szakály
The inaccurate perception of their own body image can be observed not only among physically inactive people, but also among those doing sports on a regular basis. Corporate marketing communication further increases these uncertainties and doubts in people doing sport on a regular basis, and thus they can easily become actual consumers of dietary supplements. The results of our primary research (n=737)
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Arrangements, Semiotic Links and Evaluations: Purifying the Familiar Environments from COVID-19 Among Serbia’s Young Professionals Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Stefan Janković,Milica Resanović
Our research principally engages with the issue of encounters with COVID-19within an everyday frame, underlining how the restoration of a “distorted”familiar environment occurs through gradual coping with such a mysteriousnon-human entity. The specific objective of our project was to discern how 20young professionals from Belgrade (Serbia), whom we interviewed during thecurfew, encountered, re-organized
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Social Perceptions of Conventional Versus Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Slovakia Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Erika Loučanová,Martina Nosáľová
The aim of the paper is detecting the attitudes of society in Slovakia towards conventional and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). A modified methodological approach of Kano model was used for tracking the object under examination on a random set of 275 individuals from Slovakia. The stated hypothesis was that conventional medicine is preferred to complementary and alternative medicine.
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Behavioral Interventions for Choice Decision: Convenience and Visibility Interventions Versus Taste Preference Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Rapeepat Manasoontorn
Successful behavioral interventions to reduce the consumption of unhealthy food will ease burden of NCDs and its economic cost. In prior research, conventional approach such as nutrition information could not overcome the impact of tasty but unhealthy food. Thus, this study is designed a field experiment at a casual restaurant to assess the effects of taste and behavioral approach, particularly the
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International Mobility of Serbian Citizens at the Outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Anđelka Mirkov,Dunja Poleti Ćosić
Research into the characteristics of the international mobility of Serbiancitizens who found themselves abroad at the outbreak of the COVID-19pandemic was carried out by the Institute for Sociological Research of theUniversity of Belgrade – Faculty of Philosophy. The main goal of the researchwas to explore the effects of the global health crisis on the international mobilityof Serbian citizens from
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COVID-19 International Student Well-Being Study (C19 ISWS) in Hungary Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Petra Arnold,Zsuzsanna Elekes,Ibolya Czibere,Anikó Vincze,Adrienne Csizmady,Andrea Lukács
The COVID-19 outbreak has had great psychological and social impacts,not just on the marginalized population but on the general population as well(Wang et al. 2020). Changing life circumstances and daily routines, job losses,an uncertain existence, etc. make people’s lives more difficult. The COVID-19outbreak is likely to have a notable impact on student life as well, as the latterhave had to face
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The Social Activity of the Subjective Middle Class of the Russian Region: Results of Qualitative Sociological Research Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Svetlana Martynova,Polina Sazonova
The article presents the results of a study of the middle class of the Russian region in terms of the manifestation of various types of social activity by actors. The emphasis on the analysis of social activity is motivated by the consideration of this attribute as a criterion for the allocation of the middle class in the post-industrial period. The research method – an in-depth focused interview through
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Some Pandemic Reflections on the „Sociology at the Dawn of a Successful Century?” Conference Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Márta Kiss,Éva Perpék
The Centre for Social Sciences (Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre ofExcellence) held a conference entitled Sociology at the Dawn of a SuccessfulCentury? on October 8-9, 2020 in Budapest. The concept of the conference wasbuilt around Dénes Némedi’s 20-year-old article and its updates. The ambitiousgoal of the organizers was nothing less than to review the state of Hungariansociology and its latest
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Personality traits, biographical variables and attitudes to money among Austrian students Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Reinhard Furtner
Previous research in many parts of the world has linked personality traits and biographical variables to certain money-related-attitude factors, while the situation in Austria has hardly been investigated so far. The purpose of this study was to identify possible relations between personality traits, biographical variables (independent variables), and money attitude factors (dependent variables)
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Christian W. Chun - The discourses of capitalism Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Réka Tamássy
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Alcoholism and the politics of total prohibition in Tamil Nadu state, India: A historical and sociological overview Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Karunanithi Gopalakrishnan
The consumption of alcohol in one form or other has prevailed throughout the history of the world. The first half of this paper deals with the sociocultural roots of alcoholism and drinking habits in ancient India, besides discussing its socioeconomic implications and impact on several areas of life. In the second half, it presents the history of the implementation and repeal of total prohibition in
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The impasse of Khilonjia identity in Assam Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Debajyoti Biswas
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What do business associations do? Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Gábor Tamás Molnár
This article provides a review of the literature on business associations (BAs) in line with the following questions: (1) What are the economic roles of BAs, (2) How are BAs institutionalized, and (3) What drives BAs to engage in socially beneficial or harmful activities? Challenging the popular distinction between beneficial, market-supporting and harmful, rent-seeking (lobbying) goals of BAs, we
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Indigenous policing and criminal justice administration: A study of Okposi community in Ohaozara local government area, Ebonyi Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Udo Chikezie Osisiogu, Okoro Paul Mmahi
This study explored the autochthonous methods of policing and law enforcement in the community and the perception of indigenes on the efficacy of these methods. The qualitative method was adopted, using the in-depth interview technique with indigenes: the youth forum, and community leaders and elders. Findings show that offences in Okposi community are classified into two: abominations and torts, while
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Latin American immigrant mothers in Spain: Perceived challenges and opportunities Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Elizabeth Berrocal
The researcher conducted semi-structured audio-recorded interviews of 13 mothers and expectant mothers who had migrated to Spain from Latin America. Qualitative analysis revealed several themes, including Challenges in Spain and Opportunities in Spain. Challenges were of three main types: personal and relationship challenges, economic challenges, and perceived racism and stereotyping. Opportunities
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Hungarian international migrations in the Carpathian Basin, 2011-2017 Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Áron Kincses
International migration into Hungary is markedly differentiated into two levels: the global migration effect, and the processes flowing between Hungary and its neighbouring countries, which date back a long time. The main characteristic of international migration in Hungary is that the largest part of the immigrant population is of Hungarian nationality. Population movements in the late 1980s and early
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Natural resources, fuel exports and corruption policy in Africa Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Vincent A. Onodugo, David Olufemi Isijola
Theoretical explanations of corruption in Africa are inconclusive. Economic downturn and poverty are the effects of poor resource management in Africa. Yet, neopatrimonialism also stands as an alternative explanation. This survey separate these two theoretical alternatives of corruption in Africa. It examines 54 African countries using the corruption perception index of 2017. It found that fuel-exporting
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Making sense of corruption by Bo Rothstein and Aiysha Varraich (Cambridge University Press 2017) Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Cibele Silva e Souza
Looking back at the period before the 1990s, it is possible to note that corruption-related issues tended not to be part of the news schedule, much less an element of everyday conversation. In contemporaneity, this perspective has changed, since the theme has gained space in the social repertoire and in empirical research through the related diversity of terms, whereby corruption can be deemed an “umbrella
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Contours of an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Anthony Oberschall
Israelis and Palestinians have off-loaded the cost of their conflict to outsiders. The massive subsidies for Palestinians should be gradually withdrawn and Israel should pay rent for the settlements and lands it occupies. This rent will fund the Palestinian economy and act as compensation in lieu of the right of return. The Palestinian state will be demilitarized and neutral, and become viable through
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The paradigm of the creative class in regional and urban development revisited. An overview Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Julianna Faludi
Since the era of industrial capitalism when location started playing an important role in attracting industry and trade and boosting the economy, the role of knowledge and a high level of skills has grown in post-industrial regional economic theory. What makes the heated debate around creativity and the contribution of Richard Florida’s work particularly valuable is that it fosters an interdisciplinary
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New challenges for urban ethnic community research: Digitalization and collaboration Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Zsolt Szijártó
The focus of this study is one of the frequently emerging topics of social science research: the investigation of metropolitan ethnic communities. The socio-political-media-cultural changes of recent decades (globalization, mediatization, digitization) have completely transformed the phenomenon of metropolitan migration; new questions and problems have been raised for social scientists, politicians
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The cruelty of data about scientific publication performance: An assessment of the visibility of Hungarian social science by analyzing Hungary's main repository Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Peter Sasvari, Andras Nemeslaki
The evaluation of scientific publication performance has become one of the most important and, at the same time, one of the most debated issues in international academic circles. This problem is attenuated by the digital transformation of science; online repositories, indexing systems and online visibility have become key enablers of evidence-based assessments of publication performance. In our paper
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Transforming Brexit Britain Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Andrew Richard Ryder
The article gives an overview of the key cultural and structural factors behind nationalist populism and the decision to leave the European Union as a result of the referendum staged in Britain in 2016 (Brexit). The article seeks to identify socio-economic and cultural changes that might counter nationalist populism in Britain through a renewed Social Europe, civil society and cosmopolitanism. The
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A comparison of Pride Parade’s media representation in Hungary and Ireland Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Réka Tamássy
In this study I aim to define and compare lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBTQ) media representation in Hungary and Ireland. The analysis was carried out on television reports about the Pride Parade. News reports were analyzed between 2009 and 2016 on two Hungarian (M1 and RTL Klub) and one Irish (Raidio Teilifis Eireann) television channel. The bases of the comparison were the differences in political
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Class conflict, fiscal policy, and wage-led demand: A model of Kalecki’s Political Business Cycle Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Giorgos Gouzoulis, Collin Constantine
This paper provides a demand-driven growth model of Kalecki’s (1943) political business cycle. It incorporates the three fundamental assumptions that govern Kalecki’s model: wage-led demand, the reserve army of labour effect, and the capitalists’ disproportionate power over fiscal policy. In our model, endogenous cycles are the outcome of the capitalists’ changing preferences over fiscal policy. The
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Social investment in the Baltic states: Benefits against poverty and distribution of social risks over the life course Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Daiva Skuciene, Romas Lazutka
Prevention against social risks through investment in human capital serves as the main focus of social investment. The social investment perspective suggests that social protection benefits should ensure adequate income maintenance over the life course. The goal of the current study is twofold: to analyse the role of social benefits that protect against poverty and look at the distribution of social
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Cultural problems of Turkey, by Ekrem Akrugal (Kirmizi Kedi, 2018) Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Seden Eren
This book, originally entitled Türkiye’nin Kültür Sorunları, is an anthology of articles written by Ordinarius Professor Doctor Ekrem Akurgal from 1942 until 1998, edited for publishing by Burak Kuru in 2018. Prof. Akurgal is a distinguished and reputable academic well known for his archaeological research, acknowledged by honorary doctorates and awards and memberships in science academies across Europe
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The 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association - with personal insights Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Éva Perpék, Gábor Szászvai-Papp
The European Sociological Association Conference 2019, held August 20 – 23 in Manchester, was the fourteenth in the organization's 27-year history. Interestingly enough, the first two conferences actually took place in our region with a significant Hungarian contribution: first in Vienna in 1992, then – as the only exception to the biannual rule, after three years – in Budapest in 1995. (The host institution
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A housing regime unchanged: The rise and fall of foreign-currency loans in Hungary Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Adrienne Csizmady, József Hegedüs, Diána Vonnák
This paper analyses the expansion and crisis of the foreign-currency (FX) loan market and responding mortgage rescue programs in Hungary, assessing changes in the housing regime. We argue that the existing, malformed housing regime has not changed significantly and remains vulnerable to similar events. During the economic growth of the 2000s, mortgage based growth seemed feasible for both institutional
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Understanding Byzantium by Radi Dikici (Remzi, Turkey, 2017) Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Seden Eren
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Social Report (Társadalmi riport) 2018 and Hungarian Social Report 2019 Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Réka Kemény
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The happy youth of a desperate country: The disconnect between Japan’s malaise and its millennials, by Noritoshi Furuichi (Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, Japan, 2017) Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Otgonbaatar Tsedendemberel
In this book, with its seemingly self-explanatory title, Noritoshi Furuichi argues that, despite Japan’s desperate situation amidst decades-long economic recessions, a deteriorating birth rate, an ageing population, the immediate aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, and the subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the majority of its youth (nearly 80 percent) seem to
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The use of public spaces in relation to dogs in the city of Debrecen Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Antal Lovas Kiss
In my study I present the urban environment as a space for walking a dog from the perspective of the dog owner. I analyze the activity of walking a dog as the most characteristic manifestation of the contact between public space and the dog owner, and using the method of mental mapping. I explore how dog owners perceive public space when walking their dogs. The initial hypothesis of my research was
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Researching the spirit of place. Mental mapping on Sziget festival Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Viktória Pap
This paper deals with the atmosphere of Sziget Festival. My research goal was to interpret and to depict the festival as a socio-cultural environment, an experienced material and spiritual space; a special place that exists only for a week. Based on the results, the mental places of Sziget Festival – i.e. the places that exist in festivalgoers’ minds – and the most important values of the venue, the
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A look at Lesotho government and NGOs' economic empowerment programs with respect to rural poverty reduction Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Innocent Hapazari, Josphine Hapazari
This study examined ongoing economic empowerment programs that are being implemented by both government and NGOs in rural areas of Lesotho. The key objectives were to gain some insight into major government and NGO poverty reduction programs that target or at least include the rural poor, and to establish the challenges encountered by the benefactors in executing their poverty reduction efforts. A
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Strategizing roma identity for India-EU collaboration: strengthening the NRIS Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Malay Mishra
It is an established observation that the Roma have been one of the world’s most impoverished, persecuted and marginalized communities, yet also the least understood. While there have been some estimates of a global Roma population of 20 million, these communities are dispersed throughout several countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. This article concerns the European Roma and the issues which