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• Representations of induced abortion in the Hungarian online media

  121-152.

  Nagy Beata, Magda

  Huszar Katalin

  Kalo Zsuzsa

  Rigo Adrien

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  72

  This study focuses on how induced abortion is represented in the Hungarian online media in
  relation to the reception of the public debate on the new Polish abortion law. The study was aimed
  at revealing the major themes, the embedding conceptual network and the framing of induced
  abortion in the online press. Since the press is an essential influencing factor of public opinion
  due to its broad publicity, research should focus on the characteristics of the discourse in whose
  space the concerned individuals form their views and make decisions on abortion. A thematic
  analysis of relevant press releases revealed eight major themes that framed abortion in a specific
  manner: thematization of induced abortion as a social/demographic issue; legislative issues of;
  and attitudes towards, abortion; abortion as an act of (physical) self-determination; contents
  related to the abortion decision; to its causes and consequences; and depiction of women
  choosing abortion. Furthermore, the analysis revealed the themes most frequently associated
  with abortion and potentially related themes typically not associated with it.

• Social representation of rural youth identity

  101-113.

  Murányi István

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  44

  In this paper, we investigate the local and self-identity characteristics of socio-cultural groups based on social representation theory and one of its methods (association method). Carried out on a sample of rural youth, the analysis focused on the relationship between the four groups, distinguished by their social representations of identity, with different intensities of meaning and the sociological background variables. In addition to the expected results, the hypothetical explanation for the contradiction in the emotional attachment and mobility variables can be further empirically confirmed.

• The social representation of radicalism among young people

  64-78.

  Istvan Muranyi

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  46

  In the study, using data from an international research (Myplace), relying on the theory of
  social representations, we examined the understanding of radicalism of young people aged 15
  to 26 and living in two towns in Hungary (Ózd and Sopron) which differ significantly regarding
  their political socialization. In accordance with an empirical method based on the theory,
  we analyzed the relationship between young people’s attitudes towards nationalism and the
  democratic principles and the representation of radicalism, following the structural and content
  characterization of the representation of radicalism through the quantification of associational
  responses received in the questionnaire survey conducted in 2012.