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• Social contacts and spending of leisure time of the elderly

  86-104

  Anita R. Fedor

  Sándor Ungvári

  Valéria Markos

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  170

  The phenomenon of the aging of societies is now well-known, demonstrating its demographic, economic and social impact in many countries around the world. The increase in average life expectancy at birth and the low number of children have naturally triggered the emergence of declining, aging societies. All this has led to a number of tasks for policy makers, domestic and international organizations, primarily to promote active, healthy aging. This article describes some of the results of an empirical study of 167 people conducted jointly with St. Luke’s Greek Catholic Charity in the winter of 2019 in order to assess the situation and needs of the elderly. This article presents the results of our study, which focuses on community activities, leisure, and social relationships. During our analytical work, we found that those living in residential care homes are more open to community-based activities to maintain physical and mental activity.

• What is Alpha Generation?

  20-30

  Ádám Nagy

  Attila Kölcsey

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  94

  According to Mannheim (Mannheim 1969), age group can be considered as a generation if it is
  characterized by a common immanent property, generational consciousness, community status,
  and three conditions are required: a common experience; actual peer-to-peer orientation and
  common situational interpretation, attitudes, forms of action (Mannheim 1969). Based on this
  model Strauss and Howe (Strauss – Howe 1991), states, that a generational change happens
  in around 15-20 years. Based on the relationship with the information society, the X, Y and Z
  generations are interpreted, but the concept of Alpha generation is also defined. Our article
  describes the story of the Alpha generation, the content attributed to the generation, and tries to
  answer the question: can this concept be interpreted in the paradigm of the generation of ages?

• Political Socialization in the Adolescence

  27-42

  Mihály Csákó

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  52

  In the research „School and Society, 2005” we had got an astonishing picture of the political socialization. Nearly four fifths of the high school students support antidemocratic principles: control and one-party political system. In 2008 we repeated the research and we had got similar results. Next time I did this research in 2017 and in this paper I summerize the results of the 2008 and 2017 research. I focus on the similar and different results.

• Utopia and Social Science – Interpretation of the book Fahrenheit 451

  98-108

  Benedek Dudik

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  54

  Utopian and dystopian works have traditions hundreds of years, but their golden era did not begin until the 20th century. The genre is very often depicted as a literary genre, but in reality it is much more than simple fiction. These novels are as much social science and social theory writings as they are works of phantasmagoria. In my writing, I strive to explain this line of thought based on Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451. In the course of my work, following the fictional story of Guy Montag, I intend to present the peculiarities of the genre, its social science relations and its relationship with our contemporary society, in parallel with other dystopian works of the 20th century.

• Equal opportunities and integration in the career choice: The relation between school competences and job market integration

  173-190

  Irén Sipeki

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  33

  The competences manifested in the career choice decisions refer to the success of integration
  and equal opportunities. They are able to forecast these social processes in a predictive way. The
  career choice competences connect the individual features and the social scenes, so by analysing
  them already the secondary school age group’s labour market success can be predicted.
  By studying and analysing of the competence fields with the method of revealing the sociological, psychological and pedagogical correlations it is possible to determine the labour market competences of students facing career choice, which determines the success of their social
  integration into the society at a personal level. Career choice plays a connecting part between education at schools and the labour market; therefore it has an important part concerning equal
  opportunities and integration, beyond the effect of qualification. In my study I am describing this
  process via displaying the affected competence fields.

• Szeklerland – social science approaches

  3-16

  Zoltán Bíró A.

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  30

  The study reviews the situation of social science research in Szeklerland after 1989, describes the
  institutional framework for the organization of research. Presents the most important features
  of the Szekler society with a view to providing an interpretative context for the Cross-Sections
  Social Science Journal. It also indicates the areas of analysis in which regional researches were
  conducted, but could not be included in this study compilation.