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• Structure and communitas: Subcultural problemsolving knowledge in an alternative high school

  153-174.

  Szentesi Balazs

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  19

  The paper describes the relationship between subcultural and school/institutional interpretations
  in the inner discourse of an alternative school (the ’Diákház’) in Budapest. Interpretations and
  practices, that belonging two different interpretive frameworks, appear simultaneously and
  intertwined in the Diákház communication scene. This contributes to problem-solving
  capacities/knowledge that individually do not appear in either of the two. In this discourse, the
  subcultural manifestations of difference, deviance, marginality, resistance or communitas, and
  the manifestations of knowledge, autonomy, responsibility and the hierarchical structure of the
  school sometimes appear in opposition, sometimes in reinforcement to each other. The knowledge
  formed in the discourse can be used by the Diákház to keep (formerly drop-out) students within
  the institution, and by the students to reduce their own feeling of invalidity. In this way, the
  Diákház is able to use the two opposite social states, communitas and structure, to its own
  benefit

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

  5-21

  Zsuzsa Győrffy

  Anna Susánszky

  Zsuzsa Szántó

  Éva Susánszky

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  54

  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.

• Knowledge, power and discourses in Van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis

  94-112

  Orsolya Sarány

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  84

  Critical Discourse Analysis (or Critical Discourse Studies – CDA/CDS) examines the relationship between texts, discourses and power, dominance, power abuses and social inequalities. Critical discourse analysis is a multidisciplinary research perspective, which not only examines the interactions between the text, the micro level and its surroundings, the macro level, but its main goal is to uncover social inequalities, expose the forms and modalities of abuse of power. The representatives of CDA are committed to social equality and justice. Present paper presents the work of one of the outstanding representatives of Critical Discourse Analysis, Teun A. Van Dijk, by presenting the history and possibilities of CDA, and also the key elements of Van Dijk’s approach. This study aims to show how knowledge, power and discourse are connected in Van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis.