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• Sociological and Social Psychological Context of the Transition of Hungary, with Special Regards to Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County

  166-185

  Orsolya Pocsi

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  48

  The article gives a summary of the most relevant results of the sociological and sociopsychological special literature concerning the transition to market economy and political
  pluralism in Hungary. The transition affected the different regions and different social groups
  disproportionately. The article points out that the last three decades were not enough for the
  destruction of the legacy of state socialism resulting learned helplessness and paternalism.

• Classification of depression-related online forums using Natural Language Processing

  181-208.

  Mate Fanni

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  70

  The study of the phenomenon of depression is not new in sociology, but since the depression
  is becoming a wider social problem, it is still a relevant issue today. In addition to the biomedical and psychological aspects of depression, the sociological perspective is becoming more
  noteworthy in the discourse about the causes of depression. In the research of the discourse
  on depression, the online texts offer many new possibilities, as the forum’s anonymity and
  accessability make the online seeking for help popular. In this research, natural language
  processing (logistic regression) was applied to find patterns in the definition of depression
  in lay discourses. These methods make it possible to analyze a large amount of text - which
  would have been difficult to process with human resources. During the analysis, 67 857 posts of
  English-speaking online forums were categorized along the categories of the scientific discourse
  about depression. This study presents the first results, which shows logistic regression classifier
  performs like the annotators. . Although the research has analyzed English-speaking forums, my
  findings may be useful to anyone observing abstract sociological concepts in online texts written
  by users.

• The creation and social characteristics of the Mura Region

  28-52.

  Teréz Kovács

  Anna Stankovicsné Szendi

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  32

  After drawing the Trianon borders in 1920, a minor part of Hungarians became residents of the territory of present-day independent Slovenia. The number of their descendants is approxima-tely 6000, and they constitute one of the Hungarian diasporic communities in the Carpathian Basin. In order to rename this part annexed from historical Vas and Zala counties a new notion was created: the Mura Region. The starting point of this study is raising attention to the fact that authors dealing with this region do not identify the name Mura Region with an identical territorial unit. Our aim is to present and analyse them, meanwhile offering an option to solve the different interpretations of the Mura Region. Besides the geographic approach, our study also relies on sociological aspects, including interviewing the local population, and it carries out research into the causes of the different interpretations of the Mura Region. We analyse this issue by presenting the territorial, historical, political, economic and cultural features of the area.