Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.14267/CJSSP.2020.2.11
Réka Geambașu, Orsolya Gergely, Beáta Nagy, Nikolett Somogyi
Due to the social distancing measures ordered as protection against mass infection during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak, most Hungarian families were confined to home quarantine. Schools, kindergartens, and nursery schools were closed between 16 March and early June. Because grandparents belonged to one of the most vulnerable groups, families were asked not to involve them in childcare until the end of the pandemic in order to avoid their infection by younger family members. Companies switched to using the home office when possible, and the government asked the population not to leave their homes except for essential reasons. As a result, many parents worked from home and provided care for their children at the same time.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.14267/CJSSP.2020.2.16
Márta Kiss, É. Perpék
The Centre for Social Sciences (Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence) held a conference entitled Sociology at the Dawn of a Successful Century? on October 8-9, 2020 in Budapest. The concept of the conference was built around Denes Nemedi’s 20-year-old article and its updates. The ambitious goal of the organizers was nothing less than to review the state of Hungarian sociology and its latest research results. In this spirit, the plenary speaker, Karoly Takacs (Linkoping University and CSS-RECENS, Centre for Social Sciences), first approached this complex subject from the perspective of teaching sociology, and then – among other things – argued for a reflexive sociology. (...)
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.14267/CJSSP.2020.2.10
Stefan Janković, M. Resanović
Our research principally engages with the issue of encounters with COVID-19 within an everyday frame, underlining how the restoration of a “distorted” familiar environment occurs through gradual coping with such a mysterious non-human entity. The specific objective of our project was to discern how 20 young professionals from Belgrade (Serbia), whom we interviewed during the curfew, encountered, re-organized, and eventually re-settled into their common, everyday spaces and routines, while the virus was spreading in the background. Our examination first seeks to register how the distorted relationality of humans with a non-human entity – which the virus is – became distilled into everyday objectivity. More profoundly, we intended to seek understanding of what alternations the possibility of getting infected were associated with common, everyday arrangements, and how the actors pursued hygienic “purification” as a principal task. In this sense, we managed to unveil that – albeit this interplay with an invisible and rather mysterious non-human entity involved a number of confusing moments – the latter was ultimately stabilized within a specific evaluative and cognitive format that dictated the former’s actions. Being highly appreciative of domestic familiarity and intending to quite reflexively purify potentially contaminated zones and objects, our respondents also pursued a specific moral frame. In conclusion, we underline how these “purifying” actions were substantially guided by a desire to maintain the domestic order of familiarity and immediate care.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.14267/CJSSP.2020.2.13
Petra Arnold, Z. Elekes, Ibolya Czibere, A. Vincze, A. Csizmady, A. Lukács
The COVID-19 outbreak has had great psychological and social impacts, not just on the marginalized population but on the general population as well (Wang et al. 2020). Changing life circumstances and daily routines, job losses, an uncertain existence, etc. make people’s lives more difficult. The COVID-19 outbreak is likely to have a notable impact on student life as well, as the latter have had to face many challenges (Sahu 2020) such as studying via e-learning methods, online exams, possibly losing their jobs, and financial problems (such as paying tuition fees). International students have moved back to their homeland or live in an isolated way in student hostels, maintaining social distance far away from their families and close friends. So far, only a few studies have been carried out to analyze how COVID-19 has affected students’ lives (Sahu 2020, Wenjun et al. 2020, Wong et al. 2007). Four Hungarian universities – Corvinus University of Budapest,8 the University of Debrecen, the University of Miskolc, and the University of Szeged – participated in the COVID-19 International Student Well-Being Study (C19 ISWS) (Van de Velde et al. 2020, Buffel et al. forthcoming), organized and conducted by the University of Amsterdam (UA) to examine the effects of COVID-19 on student life, involving 27 countries. The research objectives (RO) are the following (Van de Velde et al. 2020:1-2.): RO 1: Assess how the living conditions (physical and socioeconomic status) and workload of higher education students changed during the COVID-19 outbreak. RO 2: Assess how changes in living conditions and workload are related to stress levels among higher education students during the COVID-19 outbreak. RO 3: Assess how changes in living conditions, workload, and stress levels relate to well-being, mental health, and health behavior among higher education students during the COVID-19 outbreak. RO 4: Assess how the associations described in RO 3 are mediated by stressors (fear of infection, boredom, frustration, inadequate information, etc.), social support, and COVID-19-related knowledge during the pandemic outbreak. RO 5: Assess the variation in well-being and mental health among university students across participating universities and countries. RO 5: Assess how the cross-university and cross-country variation in wellbeing and mental health in higher education students may be related to varying (a) university-level, and (2) national policy contexts.
COVID-19的爆发不仅对边缘人群,而且对普通人群也产生了巨大的心理和社会影响(Wang et al. 2020)。生活环境和日常生活的变化,失业,不确定的存在等使人们的生活更加困难。新冠肺炎疫情也可能对学生生活产生显著影响,因为学生不得不面临许多挑战(Sahu 2020),例如通过电子学习方法学习,在线考试,可能失去工作以及经济问题(例如支付学费)。国际学生要么搬回祖国,要么住在学生宿舍,远离家人和亲密朋友,保持社交距离。到目前为止,只有少数研究分析了COVID-19如何影响学生的生活(Sahu 2020, Wenjun et al. 2020, Wong et al. 2007)。四所匈牙利大学——布达佩斯科维努斯大学、德布勒森大学、米什科尔茨大学和塞格德大学——参加了由阿姆斯特丹大学(UA)组织和开展的2019冠状病毒病国际学生福利研究(C19 ISWS) (Van de Velde et al. 2020, Buffel et al.即将出版),旨在研究COVID-19对27个国家学生生活的影响。研究目标(RO)如下(Van de Velde et al. 2020:1-2.): RO 1:评估在COVID-19爆发期间高等教育学生的生活条件(身体和社会经济状况)和工作量如何变化。RO 2:评估2019冠状病毒病疫情期间高等教育学生生活条件和工作量的变化与压力水平的关系。RO 3:评估2019冠状病毒病疫情期间高等教育学生的生活条件、工作量和压力水平的变化与幸福感、心理健康和健康行为的关系。RO 4:评估RO 3中描述的关联如何在大流行爆发期间由压力源(感染恐惧、无聊、沮丧、信息不足等)、社会支持和covid -19相关知识介导。RO 5:评估参与大学和国家的大学生幸福感和心理健康的差异。RO 5:评估高等教育学生在幸福和心理健康方面的跨大学和跨国家差异如何与不同的(a)大学水平和(2)国家政策背景相关。
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The beliefs and strategies to be mobilized by individuals who are about to start their activity as investors in financial markets have been an issue scarcely explored in the field of sociology of finance. In this paper we present new evidence about the opinions of future investors recurring to a survey administered to 177 Master students of financial markets. Our results highlight the structural incoherence in the values adopted by future investors and the centrality of these social actors’ beliefs in the constitution of the prevailing practices in financial markets.
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The aim of the paper is detecting the attitudes of society in Slovakia towards conventional and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). A modified methodological approach of Kano model was used for tracking the object under examination on a random set of 275 individuals from Slovakia. The stated hypothesis was that conventional medicine is preferred to complementary and alternative medicine. The results confirmed the society in Slovakia prefers conventional medicine to complementary and alternative in case of diseases. Complementary and alternative medicine is more used to reduce the symptoms associated with a disease or eliminate the side effects of conventional medicine.
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Rapid growth of sharing economy in the last two decades may signal a paradigm shift in global capitalism and societal values. Digital platforms have brought together strangers with under-utilized capacities and assets with those who need them without looking for ownership. The radius of trust which was initially confined to family, friends and local communities; now encompasses strangers who speak no common language and who live oceans apart. Trust driven by Digital Identity (DI) and Trust and Reputation Information (TRI) have enabled what was considered as improbable or even impossible some years ago. Further expansion and deepening of trust, based on new technologies combined with international legal framework, has the potential to rewrite the apparatus of modern capitalism and societal values. Civil society and governments need to engage on this issue to guide them to a direction most beneficial for the society. However, the current extraordinary situation due to the Corona Virus pandemic, coupled with foreseeable tendencies for complete digital control, is likely to have far-reaching impact on the future development of sharing economy.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.14267/CJSSP.2020.2.12
Ivett Szalma
Several studies have examined the factors that can influence contact between non-resident parents and their children (Goldberg & Carlson 2015, Skevik 2006). The distance between the place of residence of the non-resident parent and their child(ren) has been found to be important in terms of the frequency of in-person contact (Manning et al. 2003; Cheadle et al. 2010). The majority of research on this topic focuses on the frequency and quality of face-to-face visitation between non-resident parents and their children (Kalmijn, 2015, Köppen et al., Szalma &