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• Structure and communitas: Subcultural problemsolving knowledge in an alternative high school

  153-174.

  Szentesi Balazs

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  182

  The paper describes the relationship between subcultural and school/institutional interpretations
  in the inner discourse of an alternative school (the ’Diákház’) in Budapest. Interpretations and
  practices, that belonging two different interpretive frameworks, appear simultaneously and
  intertwined in the Diákház communication scene. This contributes to problem-solving
  capacities/knowledge that individually do not appear in either of the two. In this discourse, the
  subcultural manifestations of difference, deviance, marginality, resistance or communitas, and
  the manifestations of knowledge, autonomy, responsibility and the hierarchical structure of the
  school sometimes appear in opposition, sometimes in reinforcement to each other. The knowledge
  formed in the discourse can be used by the Diákház to keep (formerly drop-out) students within
  the institution, and by the students to reduce their own feeling of invalidity. In this way, the
  Diákház is able to use the two opposite social states, communitas and structure, to its own
  benefit

• In the thick of relationships? Personal and distance relationships with relatives and friends in Hungary in 2015

  65-101

  Anikó Gregor

  Zsuzsa Kukucska

  Eszter Oláh

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  274

  The study presents the structure and intensity of the relationships of the Hungarian population over 16 years of age through a descriptive analysis of four variables measuring the frequency of personal and distance contact with relatives and friends from the EU-SILC 2015 survey. Ac­cording to the data, the relationship structure is on average balanced, half of the relationships are related to relatives or friends, and the relative proportions of personal and long-distance relationships are similar. According to our results, in addition to age, the financial situation of the household has a significant correlation with the characteristics of the relationship structu­re. One of the lessons of multivariate regression models is that the effect of other background variables on the relationship structure intensifies in parallel with aging, leading to a deepening of relationship inequalities among the elderly. Another lesson of the models is that the inclu­sion of household characteristics (financial situation, number of household members, material transfer relationship with other households) has a significant effect on the mechanism of indi­vidual background variables, thus confirming that a deeper study of relationship intensity and relationship structure within the household is essential. At the end of our analysis, we compiled clusters based on the intensity of relationships, the direction of relationships, and the channel of contacting, with a relative majority of more than one-third of the respondents with extremely weak relationship embeddedness.

• Rural youth and their lack of mobility

  3-22.

  Ibolya Czibere

  Imre Kovách

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  488

  International research on the lack of mobility and its causes among people in rural areas primarily focuses on motivations for emigration and consequences of immigration. In the first half of our study we summarize the findings of the research described above. We explain the relationship between poverty and lack of mobility, review the link between agriculture and local mobility, predominantly through the functions of rural businesses. We explore the return migration of youths, especially those who move back to their village after a long period of  education and/or job search. We revisit structural theories that connect migration to different types of capital and shed light on the impact of changing perceptions on rural life. We use longitudinal quantitative studies and their statistics to analyze the characteristics of the lack of mobility among Hungarian rural youths and emigration patterns between 2010–2017. The second half of our manuscript delineates the results of studies done by the Mobility Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The pertinent articles and case studies examine the role of social bonds in the lack of mobility, types of employment among rural youths, and how those influence their attachment to their village. Mobility case studies among the youths are also analyzed, along with the social representation of their identity, categories of success, the effects of poverty, their family bonds, perspectives for the future, as well as the consequences of the social and regional characteristics of their villages.

• Advantages of the home ground: The role of the social contacts in the immobile status of the rural youth

  24-54.

  Huszti Éva

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  244

  The paper deals with the effects of the structure and the working of the egocentric network to the immobile status of rural youth. The research was made in 2018 among 19-25-year-old youth living in villages with not more than 2500 inhabitants. More, than a hundred (104) structured interview was made: 53 youth and 51 parents. Firstly, the study shows the network size and composition of the examined population, then the influence of the revealed functions of the egocentric network of the youth to their immobility. Based on the data the egocentric network of the youth mainly consist of strong ties: close kin and other relatives. From the weak ties the most frequent contacts belong to the education institutions as primary or grammar school, university. The local schools have a great role in the forming of the friendships. The local working place contacts, neighbours and acquaintanceships are not general actors of the egocentric networks of the youth.