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• Interpersonal relationships in Hungary – an overview

  72-93.

  Albert Fruzsina

  Dávid Beáta

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  Our paper aims to demonstrate that social structure has significant impact on the formation of
  interpersonal relations. We review and analyse the characteristics of ego-centric interpersonal
  networks of Hungarians based on data from nationally representative adult population surveys
  between the mid-1980’s up to 2015. We focus especially on core discussion networks, friendship
  ties and weak ties and analyse how the transition to market economy influenced interpersonal
  relationships. As expected, the large-scale social changes brought about by the transition
  changed interpersonal networks as well. During the first decade of the transition (in the 1990’s)
  one could not witness a significant change of personal networks, nonetheless the adaptation
  process was easier for people supported by strong, traditional family ties. Non-kin ties, especially
  friendships seem to gain significance at the expense of kin relationships. Overall, resources
  available through weak ties seem to be decreasing.

• Pastoral care for the Gypsies/Romas: Societal engagement of the Churches

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  31

  In 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.

• Peer-group ties and a prison sentence: a chance to enhance successful re-entry

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  Fruzsina Albert

  Emese Biró

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  43

  Interpersonal relationships of prisoners are of key importance from the aspect of their reintegration. We focus our attention on non-kin, primarily friendship ties on a sample of young Hungarian males convicted for the first time, for a relatively short period of up to 3 years. In our longitudinal qualitative research, 80 offenders from eight penal institutions were interviewed while serving their sentence and 31 of them could also be reached 6 months after they left the prison. We analyse what significance prisoners attribute to their friendship ties, how these change during the prison sentence, which factors influence their sustainment or dissolution, weakening or strengthening.