Search

Search Results

• Solidarity and autonomy in times of an epidemic

  47-73

  Domonkos Sik

  Views:

  45

  The paper seeks to answer the question: what patterns of solidarity and autonomy can be identified in the Hungarian context of late modernity. The specific difficulty of answering this question is that it refers to social structures, which are naturalized interpretations of reality, thus exist mostly at an unreflective, preintentional level. In order to address this difficulty, our research has considered the COVID epidemic as a natural experimental situation: while the paradoxes and distortions of solidarity and autonomy, are usually naturalized by the actors, during the COVID they become reflected. The first section of the paper develops theoretical idealtypes of autonomy and solidarity specialised to the Hungarian social historical context. Then, after a brief methodological overview, I will present different patterns of solidarity and autonomy in the form of case studies. In the final section, the general conclusions are drawn from these cases, while an attempt is made to answer the question: how do the actors cope with modernisation structures that narrow the space of solidarity and autonomy and are characterized by fundamental paradoxes?

• How has university students’ drug use changed during Covid-19?

  161-177

  Petra Arnold

  Anna Gelencsér

  Zsuzsanna Elekes

  Views:

  181

  The Covid-19 outbreak and the lockdown have had significant psychological and social impacts
  on everyone’s life. Changing life circumstances and daily routines, job losses, uncertainty, have
  put a psychological strain on us. As a consequence, we may experience risk behaviours more
  often than before. The aim of the study is to analyse how risk behaviours have changed due to
  Covid-19 among university students in Hungary, and to identify the psycho-social factors along which the shift can be explained. The analysis is based on the data of ‘Covid-19 International
  Student Well-Being Study’ – a study initiated and coordinated by the University of Antwerpen
  involving 75 universities from 26 countries. Four Hungarian universities – Corvinus University
  of Budapest, the University of Debrecen, the University of Miskolc, and the University of Szeged
  participated in the study. The survey was conducted among all university students who filled
  in an online questtioannaire in Spring 2020. Our results show that all risk behavoiurs have
  declined during the Covid-19 period. However, students who had had consumed drug before
  Covid-19 have been using them more frequently during the pandemic. Our results suggest that
  the recreational use have probably declined and the problematic use have probably increased
  among university students during the pandemic. Our results highlight the fact that students for
  whom the crisis situation imposed by the quarantine was hard to handle are more likely to use
  substances more frequently, so offering them prevention and treatment options is crucial.