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• Majority Decision Making

  81-100

  Levente Nagy

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  266

  Modern democracies, based on pluralism, recognize and affirm diversity, permit peaceful
  coexistence of different interests, values and convictions, and advocate a form of political
  moderation. For democracy to function and to be successful two of the most challenging
  questions must be raised and answered: Who have the right for collective decision-making?
  What principle should be used for these people to be elected? With the development of modern
  democracies it has become more and more accepted the idea that democracy should rest upon
  the principle of majority rule, coupled with individual and minority rights. Majority rule thus
  refers to the quantitative aspect of democracy, while individual and minority rights express
  the qualitative or constitutional aspect of it. A detailed analysis of democratic decision-making
  processes shows that not all decisions made by legislature – whose members are elected by the
  majority of the people – are effective and good decisions, and points at the fact that most of the
  democratic decisions are not made by the majority but by minority groups, who quite often take
  the initiative and can seriously influence the majority. This paper focuses on these issues.

• Hármas határokról antropológiai megközelítésben

  191-195

  Gabriella Zámbó

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  153

  A kötet tematikus szerkezete lehetőséget nyújt az olvasó számára, hogy a kezdeti
  elméleti felvezetés után a terepmunka módszerének köszönhetően egy-egy fejezeten keresztül részese legyen az adott térség lokális közegének. A néprajzi megközelítés eredményeként nem csak a fizikai határ jellemzőit ismerhetjük meg közelebbről, hanem betekintést nyerhetünk a helyi közösségek identitásformálásának
  legfontosabb mechanizmusaiba. A széleskörűen és változatosan vizsgált hármas
  határ blokkok igyekeznek megragadni és hűen ábrázolni a kisebbség-többség kapcsolatból adódó másság és önmeghatározás kérdéseit. Mindemellett olyan alapvető
  témákat is középpontba állítanak a szerzők, amelyek a tapasztalt lokális jelenségek
  mellett kiterjedtebb és komplexebb kérdéseket is felvetnek, úgymint a regionális
  identitás, az informális kereskedelem és a határon túli kisebbségek jövője.

• Relativized gendergizmos

  107-119

  Júlia Borbála Horváth

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  165

  Gender-theory is an arguable direction of social gender phrasing; especially its concept, that deviancies from the biological orientation are optional. The notion of transgender ortrans-sexuality as a social construction evolved in the 1990’s from post-structuralist philosophies. Nowadays
  multiple theories are mingled, and a relatively small minority seems to determine the majority’s
  traditional orientation. Present article is to discuss radical wings of gender theories, especially
  the ones that aim to alter the individual’s identity by relativizing the natural born biological
  sex, or by opposing it with social gender. Instead of dealing with the biological trans-gender
  (trans-sexuality, intersexuality, etc...), present work researches chosen gender, or the social gender roles and the corresponding ideologies; as well as a practical alternative, the intermentality
  outline topic.

• Through the screen of the majority ...: Public opinions on the social situation of Roma and their media representation

  74-92

  Bernadett Csurgó

  Andrea Rácz

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  249

  This paper presents the results of a questionnaire survey on public opinion on the social situation of Roma and their media coverage. The survey was based on the attitudes of the population towards the Roma, their perceptions and prejudices, and their perceptions of the media coverage of the Roma.