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• Environmentalism of university students in relation to their materialism, life satisfaction, views on politics and pandemic

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  Ferenc Mónus

  Tamás Béres

  Flórián Sipos

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  74

  Recently, an increasing focus has been made on studying environmental problems and the
  related social phenomena. Understanding the environmentalism and its influencing factors
  in the case of higher education students can greatly help the preparation and identification
  of sustainability policies and educational practices in higher education institutions. In this study, we investigated environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior of
  students at 17 Hungarian universities as a function of a number of hypothesized influencing
  factors. These included materialistic values, life satisfaction, political views, and views on the
  Covid-19 pandemic. According to our results, these were all related to environmentalism. More
  environmentally conscious students were less materialistic, less right-wing in their political
  views, more satisfied with their lives, and also differed in their views on pandemic issues. Beside
  a weaker impact of environmentalism and political views, life satisfaction was largely influenced
  by the relative financial situation perceived by respondents.

• The Rethinking the public in Higher Education: Communitarian Engagement vs. Service-Based dependency

  79-108

  Gyöngyvér Pataki

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  51

  There has been structural change in higher education due to the impact of institutions built or maintained in private public partnership. The aim of the paper is to give a deep insight into how these institutions could accomodate or shape the public higher education sector’s discouses, spaces, procedures. The research used mixed method to approach this complex question from a multidisciplinary perspective (sociology, education). Within this framework two residential halls were chosen and 17 interviews were carreid out with all relevant figure of the management. Due to the analytical tools of Maxqda 12 the qualitative results will be presented giving an insight into the differing discourses and practices of the public vs. private-public management. Based on the analysis of the managerial interviews it is safe to state that the public management struggles to balance a communitarian, democratic discourse and objectives with the requirements of efficiency and accountability. The presence of private-public management unintendedly shapes its public counterpart. The institutional analysis revealed that due to the swiftly changing institutional and policy environment residential halls are forced to be efficient leading to difficulties in managerial legitimacy and questions concepts such as community, conformity, commitment and action. Under the circumstances of increasingly growing institutional service-based dependency and control, academic consumers, institutions and students alike, paradoxically avoid integrating into macro groups. As a consequence, the institution encourage and educate student into a particular type of citizenship based on communication and consumerism rather than consensus.