Vol. 9 No. 2 (2020)
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Politics and media - Structure of the Hungarian media network in autumn 2018
107-129Views:71This article focusing on the changes within the Hungarian media sphere after the Orban–
Simicska conflict. After the conflict the Hungarian media sphere has changed radically. Those of
the media outlets which belonged to Lajos Simicska had cease their operation. Business persons
who have close ties to Fidesz has founded new media outlets. In my article I analyzed three
political case which happened during the Fall 2018. I assumed that the media sphere in Hungary
had become more polarized than before. In order to prove it, I created two groups of the media
outlets. The first one, which have close ties to the governing party, and the second one which has
not got ties to Fidesz. During my research I used three different methods. First, I
recorded astatistics about the articles. According to this, the media agenda shows large difference between
the groups. I did content analysis on the articles, which shows us a huge polarization between
the groups. The third one, was network analysis. The network analysis did not confirmed the
polarization hypothesis.
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Thematic articles
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Perceptions of families with children and the social professionals working with them on services promoting the well-being and social mobility of families
3-28Views:130In our study, we investigate how families with children living in a disadvantaged sub-region of Northern Hungary, in areas of different settlement size and in settlements belonging to the Budapest agglomeration, perceive the available educational,
education, childcare, health and social services, whether they have any information about them, and what professionals working with families with children think about the education, childcare, health and social services and services available to them.
the professional content and quality of the services provided, and whether
the extent to which they can contribute to the well-being and social mobility of families. Our research included a population questionnaire survey and interviews with professionals and families with children. Our results indicate that children's abilities
the lack of services to develop their abilities, develop their talents and promote their well-being, the
existing education, health and social services with very limited capacity and therefore low quality, and limited access to cultural and recreational opportunities
mobility opportunities for children growing up in disadvantaged families are severely limited. Child welfare social work tools are scarce and social interventions are based on fire-fighting. -
Entangled in the web of solidarity paradoxes – from the moral contradictions of helping to the dysfunctions the welfare system
51-85Views:85The article aims at analysing the idealtypical paradoxes of solidarity in a Hungarian rural
community. The case study focuses on helping processes embedded in various integration
mechanisms (including conservatory, reflexive and cybernetical ones – Sik 2015), while
reconstructing the perspectives of the helping and the supported actors. During the field work
interviews (n=22), small surveys (n=95) and observations (1 week) were collected, which were
interpreted in several turns. The results of the research reveal the idealtypical paradoxes of
solidarity in various social spaces, and also the consequences of their accumulation. According to
our conclusion, it is particularly important to reflect upon these latter, mostly latent paradoxes,
as their treatment is indispensable for any spontaneous or expert social interventions. -
Pastoral care for the Gypsies/Romas: Societal engagement of the Churches
86-106Views:61In my adolescence, I noticed that in my small hometown village of Nógrád County, the majority
of the Romani don’t attend mass and sever their ties with Roman Catholic religion. This tendency
remains to this very day, and I continue to experience the same thing where I now live in Pest
County. What could be the reason for this separation? I set out to find the answer with the help
of twenty years of experience as a divinity teacher and my previous empirical sociology research.
Is the clergy to be blamed for the large numbers of Gypsies and non-Gypsies leaving the fold?
I wanted to personally find an answer to the question from the concerned parties. Therefore,
at the permission of the bishop of the Diocese of Vác, as a Roman Catholic civilian theologian,
I visited the pastors of the Historical Churches at the various offices and parishes to ask them
questions about the Romani.