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

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  Ádám Bencze

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  50

  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.

• Knowledge, power and discourses in Van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis

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  Orsolya Sarány

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  125

  Critical Discourse Analysis (or Critical Discourse Studies – CDA/CDS) examines the relationship between texts, discourses and power, dominance, power abuses and social inequalities. Critical discourse analysis is a multidisciplinary research perspective, which not only examines the interactions between the text, the micro level and its surroundings, the macro level, but its main goal is to uncover social inequalities, expose the forms and modalities of abuse of power. The representatives of CDA are committed to social equality and justice. Present paper presents the work of one of the outstanding representatives of Critical Discourse Analysis, Teun A. Van Dijk, by presenting the history and possibilities of CDA, and also the key elements of Van Dijk’s approach. This study aims to show how knowledge, power and discourse are connected in Van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis.

• 2019 Nyíregyháza City Council election: The Rawlsian interpretation of the local electoral reform

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  Levente Nagy

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  56

  One of the main perspectives and urgent tasks of the newly formed government following the general elections of 2010 was to reform the local eletoral system. It is true, that the number of seats of the local representative bodies were significantly decreased, but it begs the question whether this change can reasonably explain the fact that the government considered this step as one of the first and most significant measures of its governance. To raise this question is justified by the fact that the reform (Act No. L of 2010 on the election of local government representatives and mayors) was introduced on June 14, 2010, with only sixteen days after the new Parliament approved and voted for the government’s program, and elected Viktor Orbán as prime minister of Hungary. After a brief presentation of the institutional framewortk of the local electoral system, the aim of this paper is twofold: first, I would examine whether the local electoral reform of 2010 could be considered as a „fair” step, based on John Ralws’ conception of „justice as fairness”, second, I would like to explain the actual process of transforming votes into local legislative seats in the case of the city of Nyíregyháza, in 2019.

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

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  Olah Eszter

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  49

  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.