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• The choice of medical career – What do our field work experiences represent?

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  Zsuzsa Győrffy

  Anna Susánszky

  Zsuzsa Szántó

  Éva Susánszky

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  60

  Background: One of the greatest challenges of the XXI. century is the changing of the medical profession. Beside of the process of deprofessionalism, the demographic and social composition of the medical society have also been altering. More women became medical doctors in recent years. Parallel to these changes, the career motivations of medical students are transforming. Method: 175 first year medical students from the Semmelweis University participated in our study. They wrote about their career motivations based on a fixed set of viewpoints. The narratives were analysed by both quantitative and qualitative (content analysis) methods. Results: The female students are committed to medical profession at younger ages. The most important factors in career choices are altruism and scientific interest for both genders. There is a male dominance in career motivations of experiences, knowledge and benefits. Conclusions: The changing face of career motivations has a significant impact on both the physicians and the patients. This issue opens up possibilities for following research.

• „Ratio Generationis” – Aspects for responsible generational research

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  53

  Huge amount of literature has been published in recent years on topic of generation research
  but of varying quality. There is a significant interest in the topic, although an increasing amount
  of contradictory and methodologically questionable results have come to light. People develop
  prejudices and beliefs based on popular media, which could be counterbalanced by scientific
  works, but there is a noticable amount of thorough criticism against them. It is still a question,
  whether generation is the proper response to certain phenomena or we have just „generated” it
  and most charachteristics are rather related to age or life span? Cautious research is complicated
  and lengthy, therefore many either choose to perform superficial research or to go so in-depth
  that does not allow answering problems and return to just individual differences. Some conclude
  by refusing the generational approach altogether. In these circumstances a kind of „responsible”
  generational research is to be suggested, which turns from dead ends to the scientific way and
  finally tries to find „ration in generations” keeping in mind all the criticism of the approach.
  I summerize cosiderations in my work to find this right direction.

• Political science and the perception of time: Cyclical rotation between the present-centric and the historical perspective

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  Csizmadia Ervin

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  25

  In the first part of the two-part study the author posits that it is an exciting challenge for political
  science to take stock of the scientific paradigms of the past 50 years based on their perspective
  of time. The study looks at the past 50 years solely based upon the perception of time and
  highlights the four paradigms deemed the most important: political development, transitology,
  new historicism, and the school of American Political Development (APD). The study reviews the
  authors representative of each paradigm and the most important elements of their arguments. Political scientists were susceptible to the historical perspective between the 1960s and the 80s. Later on, during the 90s until the mid-2000s the perspective for interpretation became
  the present. In the last decade however, it seems that the interest in historical perspectives has
  returned. The author concludes that a cyclical rotation can be demonstrated within political
  science between the two perspectives, the logic of which would be advisable to study.

• About the ideological dimensions of fear

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  Beáta Kovács

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  58

  The main goal of of my research is to explore the right and left dimensions of the phenomenon of fear. I would like to argue that the categories of left and right continue to be defining aspects of political identities, and by mapping their emotional structure we can better understand the current relevance of these ideologies. The studies that have examined political fears have mostly linked fear to conservativism and right wing-populism, while the fears of the left have generated far less scientific interest. A study also wants to respond to this research gap. In this paper, I would like to present the potential connection points between fear and ideological identity. The structure of the study is as follows: first, I outline the relationship between ideology and moral emotions, and then I analyze fear as a moral emotion. After that I present how fear is connected to conservatism and right-wing populism, and then I try to illustrate the ideological differences with two types of politically relevant fear, i.e. climate anxiety and migration-related fear. Finally, I add context to these specific political fears that is I also interpret them in the Hungarian political system. The study ends with drawing conclusions and outlining future research directions.