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• „Ratio Generationis” – Aspects for responsible generational research

  104-126

  Gábor Ákos Csutorás

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  94

  Huge amount of literature has been published in recent years on topic of generation research
  but of varying quality. There is a significant interest in the topic, although an increasing amount
  of contradictory and methodologically questionable results have come to light. People develop
  prejudices and beliefs based on popular media, which could be counterbalanced by scientific
  works, but there is a noticable amount of thorough criticism against them. It is still a question,
  whether generation is the proper response to certain phenomena or we have just „generated” it
  and most charachteristics are rather related to age or life span? Cautious research is complicated
  and lengthy, therefore many either choose to perform superficial research or to go so in-depth
  that does not allow answering problems and return to just individual differences. Some conclude
  by refusing the generational approach altogether. In these circumstances a kind of „responsible”
  generational research is to be suggested, which turns from dead ends to the scientific way and
  finally tries to find „ration in generations” keeping in mind all the criticism of the approach.
  I summerize cosiderations in my work to find this right direction.

• "Teens at risk": The everyday life of the early school leavers

  103-120.

  Nóra Barta

  Judit Csoba

  Katalin Harmati

  Lilla Hegyi

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  111

  One of the most important challenges of today’s society is to fight early school dropout, and integrate the socially disadvantaged youth to the labour market. Research programs investigate the reasons, causes and solutions for the phenomena. Current statistics and analytical attempts, however, provide very few insights into the family ties, friend relations, financials, thoughts, goals and everyday life of the targeted youth. Our research aims to explore these areas through structured exploratory interviews with participants aged 15 to 19 who have already experienced or are in danger of early school dropout from a second chance provider secondary school.

• The situation of young people in the Derecske district in terms of employment and job opportunities

  131-143

  Balázs Krémer

  Fanni Szabó

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  36

  The situation of young people, their chances and opportunities on the labour market are of paramount importance for society, as they are the next generation. In this paper, we present the situation, labour market opportunities and mobility of young people in the Derecske district, based on data from a 2012 survey. Young people's access to work and mobility are nowadays much debated issues that deeply affect the whole society. We focus on the prospects of young people with a degree.

  Research on young people, youth research, is very significant in our country.

  From time to time, the situation of young people undergoes fundamental changes: they reach adulthood earlier than previous generations, but at the same time they are also delayed in their youth, i.e. they start the process of separating from their parents later. This phenomenon of postponement is called postadolescence. On the one hand, they are still children (in terms of their behaviour, values and lifestyle), and on the other hand, they are already adults (in terms of their political and economic situation) (Vaskovics, 2000; Gábor, 2012).

• College and university students’ attitudes towards democracy in Hungary

  47-69

  Tamás Kovács

  Dánilel Oross

  Andrea Szabó

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  48

  The existence of education for democracy has positive impact on citizens’ political knowledge
  and the identification with the democratic values. In the process of civic education, the
  universities and high schools play an important role. Many scholars argue that the high schools
  have a civic mission to serve a public good or the university is the civic mission itself. To examine
  democratic citizenship among high school and university students we use a dataset composed of
  three surveys (2011/2012, 2013, 2015) of 4800 Hungarian students. We build on the literature
  about the empirical and theoretical framework of democratic citizenship to answer the question
  if 25 years after the collapse of communism we can witness the emergence of a new generation
  of democrats in Hungary? Have young people successfully come to terms with their countries' authoritarian past and developed a commitment to democracy as a system of rule? Are they
  ready to defend it in the face of challenges? Based on the empirical framework of citizenship we
  derive a number of significant lessons from the Hungarian case, with important implications
  about the ability to teach the norms and responsibilities of democratic citizenship in the world’s
  emerging democracies.