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• What is Alpha Generation?

  20-30

  Ádám Nagy

  Attila Kölcsey

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  178

  According to Mannheim (Mannheim 1969), age group can be considered as a generation if it is
  characterized by a common immanent property, generational consciousness, community status,
  and three conditions are required: a common experience; actual peer-to-peer orientation and
  common situational interpretation, attitudes, forms of action (Mannheim 1969). Based on this
  model Strauss and Howe (Strauss – Howe 1991), states, that a generational change happens
  in around 15-20 years. Based on the relationship with the information society, the X, Y and Z
  generations are interpreted, but the concept of Alpha generation is also defined. Our article
  describes the story of the Alpha generation, the content attributed to the generation, and tries to
  answer the question: can this concept be interpreted in the paradigm of the generation of ages?

• 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).

• Where do young villagers work? Types of social bonds and occupational characters of young generations living in small villages

  55-85.

  Judit Csoba

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  72

  One of the defining elements of local identity is the opportunity to work and the chance ofear- ning money. These factors are especially important in small villages within low-populated rural areas, where due to changes in the production structure and land ownership job opportunities become less and less. In the absence of livelihood opportunities and adequate income for young people living in the countryside, the migration process is intensifying, the villages are aging and become more and more depopulated. A smaller part of young villagers however remain in the settlement, with new marginalized settlers from urban areas, who appear alongside them.

  Our case study, based on 104 interviews in 12 settlements, seeks to find whether young peop- le – aged 19–25 – look at village life as a constraint or an opportunity. The central question is whether they think that this marginal status, with an assumingly cheap village life, is the only choice for them, or they are convinced that they are staying in small villages due to their cons- cious choice in favour of a rural lifestyle.

  Focusing on employment strategies, the aim of this paper is to look at the dimensions of local attachment of the target group, and to show the various labour market characteristics of the target groupthat develops within the given framework.

• Literature review of the national identity of hungarians in Vojvodina between 1920–1898, I.

  109-135

  Teréz Kovács

  Igor Kiss

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  71

  Our paper follows on the observation made by Ferenc Pataki who stated that national identity is
  a collective identity shaped by both political/citizenship-related and cultural elements. While
  these two elements are usually similar, the national identity of people from ethnic minorities
  differ along these two identities. Our analysis discusess the changes that happened during the
  hundred years since the Treaty of Trianion to these two elements of the national identity of the
  following three generations of Hungarians in Vojvodina: between the two World Wars, those
  who grew up during the communism and those who became adults after 1990. We conclude that
  the first generation retained their cultural-historical national identiy formed before Wold War I
  but they did not develop Hungarian or South Slavic national idenities. To replace the South
  Slavic identity they developed a regional identity to Vojvodina. The second generation, who were
  born and raised after 1945, developed Yugoslavian political/citizenship-related national identy
  through socialisation in a new political system and a regional identity to Vojvodina, which meant
  an alienation from Hungary. As a result of their shattered cultural-historical national identity,
  they started to assimilate, some of them lost their Hungarian cultural-historical identity and
  acquired a Serbian or Yugoslavian national identity instead. The national identity of the third
  generation who grew up after 1990 will be discussed in a second paper.