Hungary is located in the Carpathian Basin, where a chain of mountains surrounding the basin marks its northern and eastern borders. St. Stephen (1000–1038), the founder of the Kingdom of Hungary 1 (Hung. Magyar Királyság), accepted the Western
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In The International Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 39–51 (13 total)
Social Quality in Hungary
In the Framework of ENIQ
Szilvia Altorjai and Erzsébet Bukodi
In Hungary, the social and economic conditions have dramatically changed after the political and economical transition. The collapse of communism in 1989–90 forced Hungary, as well as other CEE countries, to reconstruct their political, economic and cultural identity. This process has become known as the ‘transition’ and Europeanisation or globalisation (Manning 2004). Within this transition the ability of adjustment to new conditions has become one of the most important factors – if not the most – in the process of diminishing risks and enhancing life chances. The theoretical and methodological elements of the social quality approach were established in the last two to three years. In this article we aim to outline the most important elements of social quality in the conditional factors socio-economic security, social inclusion, social cohesion as well as social empowerment in Hungary. Here, besides a short description of the national context we will emphasise only the key findings according to the four conditional factors. In the third part of the article we outline some aspects of the Hungarian employment policy.
In European Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Nov 2005
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 138–150 (13 total)
Hadley Z. Renkin
Violent attacks on gay and lesbian activities in the public sphere, coupled with verbal aggression against sexual minorities by right-wing politicians in Hungary and other postsocialist countries, illustrate the centrality of sexuality in questions of postsocialist transition. This article discusses the limits of current scholarly interpretations of homophobia in postsocialist countries. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on LGBT activism in Hungary, it argues that by undertaking public projects that assert multiple forms of identity and community, LGBT people, although often portrayed as passive objects of the changing configurations of power of Hungary's transition, have raised a radical challenge to traditional imaginings of the boundaries between national and transnational meanings. It is this challenge—the proposal of a “queering” of belonging—to which right-wing, nationalist actors have responded with public violence.
Gergely Rosta
This essay analyses the changing religiosity of the Hungarian youth population between the ages of 15 and 29 after the millennium. The basis for this empirical investigation is provided by the three waves (2000, 2004, 2008) of the National Youth Study. From their results, a similar picture emerges on the religiosity of the youth as from other nation-wide surveys, in relation to the whole adult population. Since the first Youth Study a slow but steady decline has been witnessed in different dimensions of religiosity (practice, faith, self-classification). It is especially salient for institutionalised religiosity. At the same time, the vast majority of the Hungarian youth confess to believing in some kind of supernatural instance, though not necessarily a traditional Christian one.
The socio-demographical background to the differences in religiosity can be partly explained by the secularisation theory, but the effects of an expanded religious education are present too. In contrast to the secularisation thesis, however, the transmission of traditional religious conviction is much more likely in families with better educational backgrounds than other parts of the society, a phenomenon which points to a more and more elite type of church religiosity in Hungary.
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 54–67 (13 total)
Susan Zimmermann
This study argues that the changing relationship between paid work, unpaid work and paid care work and social services, and the struggle over this relationship and its implications, constituted key factors in shaping the ‘state socialist’ gender regime in Hungary from 1949 to the 1980s. The study is based on a wealth of recent scholarship, original sources and Hungarian research conducted during the state socialist period. It tries to give a balanced and inclusive analysis of key elements of women’s and gender history in the state socialist project of ‘catching-up development’ in a semi-peripheral patriarchal society, pointing to constraints, challenges and results of this project. Due to the complex interaction of a variety of actors and factors impacting on and shaping the state socialist gender regime not all women were affected in the same way by state socialist politics and gender struggles. Women’s status and opportunities, as well as gender relations, differed according to class, ethnicity and economic sector. As a rule, the gender struggle over state socialist family and gender arrangements in Hungary sought to reduce or temper tensions and conflicts by avoiding substantial or direct attack against the privileges of men both within the home and elsewhere.
Israel and East-Central Europe
Case Studies of Israel's Relations with Poland and Hungary
Joanna Dyduch
unsettled historical legacy of the Holocaust that, given the neoconservative-nationalist profile of governing parties in both Poland and Hungary, brought a completely new dynamic into mutual relations. In order to better understand the sources, dynamics
In Israel Studies Review
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 7–25 (19 total)
From Illiberal State to Christian Values
Naming the Current Politics of Hungary
Heino Nyyssönen and Jussi Metsälä
account. 3 In the case of a leader-centered political system, the point where a politician ends and polity begins is not easy to define. Despite Hungary being a relatively small country, it seeks international prestige, and Viktor Orbán, by his long
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 109–130 (22 total)
Theatre and Ideology
Staging The Merchant of Venice at the Hungarian National Theatre in 1940 and 1986
Zoltán Imre
zsidó’ [The Venetian Jew] Apart from paraphrasing Hamlet, the Hungarian theatre critic Tamás Koltai posed these questions quite straightforwardly in his review of the performance of The Merchant of Venice in 1986. His questions referred to
In European Judaism
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 213–222 (10 total)
Erzsébet Bukodi and Péter Róbert
European labour-market patterns tend to contain a growing element of flexible employment, which deviates from the norm of the secure, lifelong career. What do we mean by flexible work? Dex and McCullogh (1997) offer the following definition: ‘Flexible work … is a description of a change in the distribution of labour market jobs, away from standard full-time permanent employee contracts, and towards a growth in various types of non-standard employment forms.’ Pollert (1988) argues that flexibility refers to a combination of different factors. It involves firms being flexible enough to be able to respond quickly and efficiently to technological and economic changes; it also refers to organisations that are flexible in terms of employee numbers. In addition, it refers to a workforce that is multi-skilled and/or flexible with regard to time. This may result in a trend for firms to retain ‘core ’employees who work flexibly, with a periphery of employees who are flexible because they are irregularly employed. The result of this process is that employment is no longer as stable as it was. The development of the new, flexible labour market undermines security, leading to the so-called ‘risk society’ (Crompton et al.,1996).
In European Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2003
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 156–186 (31 total)
Eugene Heimler
A Hero of the Twentieth Century
Miriam Bracha Heimler
childhood in a small town in Hungary, and how he was a well-established poet at the age of seventeen. He told us the dream he had as a young boy, of wanting to become a writer and a psychologist. And then, after his childhood paradise, where he chased
In European Judaism
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 63–73 (11 total)