Zoltán Biró A., Ágnes Sárosi-Blága, Kinga Katalin Székely
: The focus of our study is a high school with an agricultural education programme operating in a rural micro-region within Harghita County (Romania), in which context the relationship between the school and the regional society comes under analysis. Since the 1970s, it has been the school’s mission to provide the micro-region’s professionals with a secondary education, and today it still intends to maintain this micro-regional function. It has been struggling with significant operational and maintenance problems for several years now, while the evolution of its micro-regional role is uncertain. The present study puts under scrutiny the attitude of parents and the region’s élites towards the school and its regional role as well as analyses the school’s service-marketing practices towards the region. The aim of the study is to analyse the school-community relationship and the school’s marketing communication. The main research question is: what is the regional role of the school and how can it be strengthened? Analytical results indicate that repositioning the regional role of the school seems to offer a way out and a development opportunity for the institution.
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Social policies, as well as the ways of observing and defining them, require re-problematizations and revisions in the light of the structuring processes of this century. Because of this, this review aims to recover the central aspects of a recently published book, which addresses social policies from the social studies on emotions, observing how State interventions - with a growing scope and coverage - impact not only on the daily reproduction but also in the ways of feeling of the receiving subjects.
{"title":"From Analytical Lenses and Social Policies: A Look From the Emotions","authors":"Andrea Dettano","doi":"10.14267/cjssp.2021.2.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14267/cjssp.2021.2.9","url":null,"abstract":"Social policies, as well as the ways of observing and defining them, require re-problematizations and revisions in the light of the structuring processes of this century. Because of this, this review aims to recover the central aspects of a recently published book, which addresses social policies from the social studies on emotions, observing how State interventions - with a growing scope and coverage - impact not only on the daily reproduction but also in the ways of feeling of the receiving subjects.","PeriodicalId":42178,"journal":{"name":"Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44498626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article uses an interpretive and qualitative framework to analyze elderly care policy with a focus on the instrumental effectiveness of this policy. The framework of the research offers an understanding of informal carers needs for formal support at the level of social policy measures. The micro-level inquiry, i.e., interviews with informal elderly carers, both revealing caregiver burden and evaluating their need for formal (social policy) support, is demonstrating how qualitative inquiry can inform about shortages of this policy. The findings of the research suggest that formal support for informal caregivers in Lithuania is not adequate to their multifaceted care burden and should be therefore developed to encompass both direct and indirect support measures for informal carers.
{"title":"Informal Family Carers’ Need for State-Guaranteed Support. What are the Implications for Social Policy?","authors":"L. Žalimienė, Jolita Junevičienė","doi":"10.14267/cjssp.2021.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14267/cjssp.2021.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"The article uses an interpretive and qualitative framework to analyze elderly care policy with a focus on the instrumental effectiveness of this policy. The framework of the research offers an understanding of informal carers needs for formal support at the level of social policy measures. The micro-level inquiry, i.e., interviews with informal elderly carers, both revealing caregiver burden and evaluating their need for formal (social policy) support, is demonstrating how qualitative inquiry can inform about shortages of this policy. The findings of the research suggest that formal support for informal caregivers in Lithuania is not adequate to their multifaceted care burden and should be therefore developed to encompass both direct and indirect support measures for informal carers.","PeriodicalId":42178,"journal":{"name":"Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46916836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this study, we examine the motives behind higher education students’ volunteering and its determinants based on a survey (N=2,199) conducted in five Central and Eastern European countries. Based on the literature, we hypothesize that, besides traditional volunteering, which has the objective of helping others, it is also common to pursue career-focused volunteering, which is aimed at networking and the acquisition of work experience and professional knowledge. Cluster analysis results reveal the presence of traditional as well as career-focused volunteers, who also find it important to help others. Logistic regression results suggest that career-building motivations are more frequent among students who are in an unfavorable financial situation, display intensive individual religiosity and have close social relationships. Further regression results show that the country, the field of study and the relationship with faculty all influence whether volunteer work is related to the field of study.
{"title":"Volunteering Among Higher Education Students as Part of Individual Career Management","authors":"Hajnalka Fényes,Valéria Markos,Márta Mohácsi","doi":"10.14267/cjssp.2021.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14267/cjssp.2021.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we examine the motives behind higher education students’ volunteering and its determinants based on a survey (N=2,199) conducted in five Central and Eastern European countries. Based on the literature, we hypothesize that, besides traditional volunteering, which has the objective of helping others, it is also common to pursue career-focused volunteering, which is aimed at networking and the acquisition of work experience and professional knowledge. Cluster analysis results reveal the presence of traditional as well as career-focused volunteers, who also find it important to help others. Logistic regression results suggest that career-building motivations are more frequent among students who are in an unfavorable financial situation, display intensive individual religiosity and have close social relationships. Further regression results show that the country, the field of study and the relationship with faculty all influence whether volunteer work is related to the field of study.","PeriodicalId":42178,"journal":{"name":"Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy","volume":"71 2","pages":"3-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138524131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper analyzes subjective poverty in Hungary. The results of the data collection in 2019 are compared to the results of former data collections carried out in 2007 and 2011. The methods of systematic data collection are used to collect data about the belief of the population. The paper concludes that poverty is mainly related to material values and it did not change in the examined period. Items expressing labor market problems are closely related to poverty even in 2019 in spite of the fact that over demand in the labor market has lately decreased unemployment. Items about families and child rearing have become less closely related to poverty. The paper concludes that relative poverty threshold coincides with the subjective one. It implies that increasing the absolute income level of individuals may not be enough to improve their subjective wellbeing as they are also concerned with their relative income position.
{"title":"Evolution of the Interpretation of Poverty in Hungary between 2007 and 2019","authors":"Eszter Siposné Dr Nándori","doi":"10.14267/cjssp.2021.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14267/cjssp.2021.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"The paper analyzes subjective poverty in Hungary. The results of the data collection in 2019 are compared to the results of former data collections carried out in 2007 and 2011. The methods of systematic data collection are used to collect data about the belief of the population. The paper concludes that poverty is mainly related to material values and it did not change in the examined period. Items expressing labor market problems are closely related to poverty even in 2019 in spite of the fact that over demand in the labor market has lately decreased unemployment. Items about families and child rearing have become less closely related to poverty. The paper concludes that relative poverty threshold coincides with the subjective one. It implies that increasing the absolute income level of individuals may not be enough to improve their subjective wellbeing as they are also concerned with their relative income position.","PeriodicalId":42178,"journal":{"name":"Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45748567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this article, we analyze eldercare in the post-Soviet space on the example of Russia. Our research questions are: How transforming the care arrangements of older adults in the post-soviet state? How do the transforming care arrangements affect the agency of the elderly? The materials for the analysis were qualitative interviews with older people, social workers, and experts from Russia (N= 31), as well as statistics and legal acts. The care arrangements of older adults are undergoing significant transformations, which we can express in two distinct trends. The first is the drift away from a state and family monopoly of caring for the older people to a mixed model. New forms of care and providers are emerging: NGOs; business organizations; foster families for older people; specially equipped apartments; private nursing homes The informal care sector is developing thanks to paid caregivers from among neighbors, migrants (both external and internal). The second trend is that in practice, care can often be “layered” in nature. Relatives, public services, non-profit organizations, paid staff can take care of the same person at the same time. These trends expand the repertoire of care scenarios and make the choice more flexible for the older person and increase their agency.
{"title":"Caring for Older People in the Post-Soviet Space: The Case of Russia","authors":"Oksana Parfenova","doi":"10.14267/cjssp.2021.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14267/cjssp.2021.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we analyze eldercare in the post-Soviet space on the example of Russia. Our research questions are: How transforming the care arrangements of older adults in the post-soviet state? How do the transforming care arrangements affect the agency of the elderly? The materials for the analysis were qualitative interviews with older people, social workers, and experts from Russia (N= 31), as well as statistics and legal acts. The care arrangements of older adults are undergoing significant transformations, which we can express in two distinct trends. The first is the drift away from a state and family monopoly of caring for the older people to a mixed model. New forms of care and providers are emerging: NGOs; business organizations; foster families for older people; specially equipped apartments; private nursing homes The informal care sector is developing thanks to paid caregivers from among neighbors, migrants (both external and internal). The second trend is that in practice, care can often be “layered” in nature. Relatives, public services, non-profit organizations, paid staff can take care of the same person at the same time. These trends expand the repertoire of care scenarios and make the choice more flexible for the older person and increase their agency.","PeriodicalId":42178,"journal":{"name":"Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy","volume":"22 S3","pages":"67-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138514067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.14267/cjssp.2021.2.10
Eszter Bartha
Review of "A Factory Town that Belongs to the Past… Social Changes in Ózd and its Surroundings from the System Change until Today", by Péter Alabán (Kronosz Publishing House, 2020).
Péter Alabán（Kronosz出版社，2020）的《一个属于过去的工厂城…从制度变革到今天奥兹德及其周边地区的社会变革》评论。
{"title":"Tracing a Vanishing Heritage: The Hungarian Rustbelt","authors":"Eszter Bartha","doi":"10.14267/cjssp.2021.2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14267/cjssp.2021.2.10","url":null,"abstract":"Review of \"A Factory Town that Belongs to the Past… Social Changes in Ózd and its Surroundings from the System Change until Today\", by Péter Alabán (Kronosz Publishing House, 2020).","PeriodicalId":42178,"journal":{"name":"Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43920187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social values in Indian society in general and Tamil society in particular are subject to fluctuation, in accordance with on-going social changes ushered in by various modern forces. Consequently, these values metamorphose and degenerate into counter-cultural practices that pose a threat to traditional culture. Modern people attribute new meanings to the unethical practices that they engage in by emphasizing their immediate relevance and necessity for their changing life styles. They believe that their willingness to follow them instead of social values will help them make a profit that sustains their livelihood in this time of change.
{"title":"Changing Social Values in Contemporary Tamil Society, India: a Qualitative Inquiry","authors":"K. Gopalakrishnan","doi":"10.14267/cjssp.2021.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14267/cjssp.2021.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"Social values in Indian society in general and Tamil society in particular are subject to fluctuation, in accordance with on-going social changes ushered in by various modern forces. Consequently, these values metamorphose and degenerate into counter-cultural practices that pose a threat to traditional culture. Modern people attribute new meanings to the unethical practices that they engage in by emphasizing their immediate relevance and necessity for their changing life styles. They believe that their willingness to follow them instead of social values will help them make a profit that sustains their livelihood in this time of change.","PeriodicalId":42178,"journal":{"name":"Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42077368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This is an interesting and coherent book which offers a specific interpretation of Brexit by examining the political discourse and investigating its linguistic and rhetoric context. The author applies the method of critical discourse analysis, which links the micro analysis of speech acts (speeches, public statements, political adverts, and interviews) with a macro approach that critically assesses the relationship between speech acts and the historical and socio-economic profile of Britain. The Brexit debate is used as a case study to demonstrate that power is embodied in discourse and knowledge, and that sophisticated verbal constructs are capable of manipulating a range of dispositions, emotions, and identities to the extreme.
{"title":"Britain and Europe at a Crossroads. The Politics of Anxiety and Transformation, by Andrew Ryder (Bristol University Press, 2020)","authors":"P. Fűtő","doi":"10.14267/cjssp.2021.1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14267/cjssp.2021.1.9","url":null,"abstract":"This is an interesting and coherent book which offers a specific interpretation of Brexit by examining the political discourse and investigating its linguistic and rhetoric context. The author applies the method of critical discourse analysis, which links the micro analysis of speech acts (speeches, public statements, political adverts, and interviews) with a macro approach that critically assesses the relationship between speech acts and the historical and socio-economic profile of Britain. The Brexit debate is used as a case study to demonstrate that power is embodied in discourse and knowledge, and that sophisticated verbal constructs are capable of manipulating a range of dispositions, emotions, and \u0000identities to the extreme.","PeriodicalId":42178,"journal":{"name":"Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41421059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Boglárka Herke, Kitti Kutrovátz, V. Paksi, Eva Ivony
The academic profession has significantly transformed in the past few decades due to the industrialization of higher education and research. Based on sixteen career path interviews, the study investigates how the career paths of sociology doctoral graduates who obtained their master’s or PhD degree at Corvinus University of Budapest have been formed within this changing environment of the academic profession. The study distinguishes four researcher career path types and describes attached job characteristics and career satisfaction. Hungarian and international academic researchers have spent most of their careers at Hungarian or renowned foreign universities. Hungarian academic researchers performed a high volume of teaching, while international academic researchers primarily focused on research. The career paths of market researchers were formed by their positions at research firms, where they were involved in applied research projects. Researchers of the mixed career type alternated between the different sectors throughout their career paths that led to dissatisfaction with their careers. Interviewees of the other three types were generally satisfied with their careers, however, the reconciliation of teaching, research and organizational tasks in the case of Hungarian academic researchers, the measurement of publication performance against Western scholars regarding international academic researchers, and the choice between academic and market activities among market researchers all emerged as sources of frustration in the narratives.
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