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• Informality: the Culture of Treating Others Instrumentally: An Essay about the Dynamics of the Relationship between Social Relations and Trust

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  Zoltán Grünhut

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  The current paper, without scientific systematization and artistic meditation, tries to address
  life itself (the normatively understood ‘good life’) in an essayist way. It strives to draw up some
  core pillars of a research program about a commonly known everyday phenomenon, informality,
  more precisely its distorted form which is inducing social inequalities and injustices, and which,
  because of this, should be seen reflexively and critically. The proposed argument is a theoretical
  reflection on József Böröcz’s still actual and progressive scientific endeavor to create a framework
  for the sociology of informality.

• Rural youth and their lack of mobility

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  International research on the lack of mobility and its causes among people in rural areas primarily focuses on motivations for emigration and consequences of immigration. In the first half of our study we summarize the findings of the research described above. We explain the relationship between poverty and lack of mobility, review the link between agriculture and local mobility, predominantly through the functions of rural businesses. We explore the return migration of youths, especially those who move back to their village after a long period of  education and/or job search. We revisit structural theories that connect migration to different types of capital and shed light on the impact of changing perceptions on rural life. We use longitudinal quantitative studies and their statistics to analyze the characteristics of the lack of mobility among Hungarian rural youths and emigration patterns between 2010–2017. The second half of our manuscript delineates the results of studies done by the Mobility Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The pertinent articles and case studies examine the role of social bonds in the lack of mobility, types of employment among rural youths, and how those influence their attachment to their village. Mobility case studies among the youths are also analyzed, along with the social representation of their identity, categories of success, the effects of poverty, their family bonds, perspectives for the future, as well as the consequences of the social and regional characteristics of their villages.