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• Conflicts and democracy: Considerations on political conflicts and the need of their delimitation

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  Szilvia Horváth

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  20

  According to our common experience of political life, the relationship between politics and
  conflicts seems to be obvious. However, it is also common to think about delimiting the intensity
  of conflicts in a democratic context. This kind of complexity of the relation of democracy and
  conflicts can be cexplained from two theoretical perspectives. First, in order to protect democratic
  order, conflicts may lose their relevance in comparison to the value of consent or compromise. Second, even if we accept the importance of conflicts, we also should take into account the limits
  of their intensity. These theoretical problems arise in the context of contemporary politics which
  nature is eminently public and in which every announcement is open to discussion. This is what
  discourse as a theoretical horizon means. The core concept for theorizing the conflictual character
  of politics in a discursive manner is political debate. The article explores three kinds of debate
  and communicative conflicts: John Stuart Mill, as a classical nineteenth century liberal, sheds
  light on the importance of debate in issues of collective truth-seeking and emotional devotion
  to our personal values. Márton Szabó, a leading theorist of political discourse in Hungary, also
  treats debate as a core concept of political discourse studies, and theorizes debate not only as
  a series of singular acts in the realm of politics, but as a mode of existence of politics itself.
  Contrary to other contemporary ideas of communication and politics, discourse is therefore
  inherently conflictual in its character. Similarly, but more embedded in contemporary debates
  over democracy, Chantal Mouffe, one of the eminent theorists of agonism, interprets conflicts
  in the context of democratic order, and emphasises the democratic conditions for constructing
  democratic identities. Her ideas on agonistic democracy can fathom the relation of valuable
  conflicts and their limits in a democratic regime.

• Europe’s most visited countries’ coastal areas affected by overtourism

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  Andrea Szőllős-Tóth

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  33

  Tourism has a constant impact on the environment and on society, taking these impacts into
  consideration reveals that these are not always beneficial. Negative impacts include increased
  pollution, inappropriate construction, conflicts between local society and tourists, crowding and
  congestion. The objective of my research is to study coastal areas affected by overtourism in
  southern European countries. By examining tourism in the European countries that received the
  most international tourists in 2019, I illustrate the importance of 3S tourism (sea, sand, sun), the
  mass of tourists it attracts, and its effects. The tourism of France, Spain and Italy, with their sunny sandy coasts, are presented by summarising data sets from various international databases.
  I analyse the cases of some destinations from the three countries that are the main focus of the study, based on previously published articles. Coastal areas that have been associated with the
  overtourism phenomenon by other authors are also presented.

• Forms of parental control in the case of postadolescent youth

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  Johanna Heléna Stadinger

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  104

  The present study addresses control factors that emerge during the detachment of young people in the post-adolescent age that may delay or hinder the detachment process of the young adult. It aims to highlight that childhood upbringing, the child-parent relationship, and the communication that takes place between them allow the creation of a new type of typology in which not only parental control tools can be identified but also social control mechanisms can be identified. Most post-adolescence research traces the success or extent of detachment mostly to the financial situation of young people. This paper, however, aims to briefly demonstrate that a deeper understanding of the dimensions of detachment as conceived by László Vaskovics is possible through the study of attachments and bonds.

• The involuntary aspects of volunteering. Workplace conflicts in volunteering in NGOs in voluntary work

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  Dóra Valéria Szeder

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  16

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• From an acquaintance to a true friend – the idea of friendship among university students

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  Kinga Györfi

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  19

  The idea of writing my essay comes from the book ‘Embert barátjáról – A barátság szociológiája’
  written by Fruzsina Albert and Beáta Dávid. I am especially interested in the appearance and
  significance of the typical social capital, i.e. friendship, among the students of the Sapientia
  University of Miercurea Ciuc (Csíkszereda) and that of the ELTE (Budapest). In order to
  investigate the phenomenon of friendship, I chose a qualitative strategy, namely focus group
  research.
  Although I have expected greater contrasts by comparing the students of these two distinct
  locations, I have found that friendship among the interviewed young people constitutes universal value with more common than different patterns.