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• Globalization theory of late modernity and identities in risk society

  101-121

  Balazs Bocskei

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  31

  Modernity is the sum of the fragmented cultural systems of meaning, that are mutually influential
  on each other, plus of economic and political relations continually changing and transforming –
  a complexity that manifests itself in the structure of the (world) risk society even on the level of
  the individual. Following the late modern turn, the phenomenon of the means and opportunities
  determining the ability of choice is not being shared equally, but multiplied as regards global
  actors, as well as choice of identity, perceptibility of risks and facing them. The study presents
  the new inequality factors and the asymmetric power relations of the late modernity along the
  works by the recently died sociologists of the globalization theory (Ulrich Beck and Zygmunt
  Bauman). In the world risk society, each community and individual bear the risks indifferently.
  Accordingly, the ascertainments of the study are that the globalised economy and the subjects
  of the local poverty do not possess the same degree of the freedom of maneuvering. In order
  to demonstrate this and also to identify each postmodern life-strategy, the study relies on the
  works on identity by the discussed sociologists. According to the latter, the study concludes, that
  the reflexivity of the risk is the most profitable for those who are in the high position of the new
  inequality, thus, have the power to determine conflicts generated by them and inflict them on
  those excluded from the struggle of definition of risk.

• Where is the truth? – Greek catholic high school youth’s justice values

  105-123

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  20

  The purpose of our study is to present what young people think about justice, and how they
  are different from the youth and society of the country. The functioning of a society requires
  that fair conditions prevail in it. However, there are several types of justice. What young people,
  as adults of the future, think about this value is essential for the functioning of a society. We
  present philosophical interpretations and value sociological research on justice, then we define
  the concept of justice for Hungarian society and Hungarian youth. In our research we asked all
  eleventh and twelfth students of a Greek Catholic high school in Eastern Hungary in 2014 and
  2019. Quantitative method was used to compare students’ views on justice with the other young
  people in the country. According to our results during the five years of research, equality was
  more important for young people, especially for the boys. The importance of the value of equality
  was clearly related to the religiosity of the asked young people.

• Empirical analysis of the judgment of unconditional basic income through YouTube comments

  68-93.

  Olah Eszter

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  20

  One of the world’s largest video-sharing platforms is YouTube, where viewers can comment on
  the videos and their topics. The aim of this study is to examine the values and opinions about
  unconditional basic income according to the comment sections of several Youtube’s videos which
  topic is the previously mentioned UBI which is receiving increasing attention in parallel with
  today’s economic and social changes. Our research works with a mixed method, data collection,
  storage, sentiment analysis and the bag of words method which were implemented using IT
  procedures, while categorization was done through manual coding. The results of the sentiment
  analysis show that positive arguments appear to a lesser extent in the comments. Positive
  arguments have value characteristics such as inclusion, the principle of the right to exist, justice
  and freedom. Among the positive arguments feasibility enjoys the highest support. Negative
  category values arise more frequently, so the emphasis on the values of injustice, exclusion,
  unaffordability, and performance-orientation is dominant in the analyzed comments.

• Reflecions on the society of control – Footnotes to the Delezoguattarian machine

  210-228

  Szabolcs Nyiri

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  51

  The present study revolves around the concept of the Deleuzean machine. It undertakes to
  introduce the machine from Deleuze’s concept of the societies of control. Thus this paper is not
  a presentation of the critique of the Freudian and Lacanian notions of desire that the machine
  is introduced as a late capitalist abstract agent, but a genalogy of the machinic mechanism – as
  a logic of operation – is outlined from a new perspective. The emphasis of the study is not on
  psychoanalises and capitalism, and on schizoanalysis as a critique of them, but ont he operational
  logic of the societies of control: the articulation of controlling freedom. Fort he latter, concepcts
  such as territory, de- and reterritorialization, as well as the operating principles of cybernetic systems are shed light on. By examining this concept, therefore, the ways of understanding the
  social, economic and political processes of ourt time can be shed new light.