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• From an acquaintance to a true friend – the idea of friendship among university students

  139-159

  Kinga Györfi

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  50

  The idea of writing my essay comes from the book ‘Embert barátjáról – A barátság szociológiája’
  written by Fruzsina Albert and Beáta Dávid. I am especially interested in the appearance and
  significance of the typical social capital, i.e. friendship, among the students of the Sapientia
  University of Miercurea Ciuc (Csíkszereda) and that of the ELTE (Budapest). In order to
  investigate the phenomenon of friendship, I chose a qualitative strategy, namely focus group
  research.
  Although I have expected greater contrasts by comparing the students of these two distinct
  locations, I have found that friendship among the interviewed young people constitutes universal value with more common than different patterns.

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

  52-82

  Fruzsina Albert

  Emese Biró

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  68

  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.

• Interpersonal relationships in Hungary – an overview

  72-93.

  Albert Fruzsina

  Dávid Beáta

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  59

  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.