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

  153-174.

  Szentesi Balazs

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  113

  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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  195

  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.