The proportion of elderly people is growing steadily in many countries, and this trend is expected to continue. As a result, ageism - negative discrimination often tied to perceptions of the elderly -becomes especially harmful. Ageism prevents older generations from being fully accepted by...

Az internet az élet minden területén jelen van, és jelentősége egyre inkább növekszik. A digitális tér a fogyasztói lét fontos színtere mind a fiatalabbak, mind az idősebbek számára. Ez alátámasztja az online vásárlással kapcsolatos különféle fogyasztói szegmenseket...

Az önkéntes egyszerűség olyan mozgalom, amely alternatív életmódot ajánl a válságokkal telített fogyasztói társadalomban. Az önkéntes egyszerűsítők tudatos és személyes döntés eredményeképpen váltanak életstílust, amelyben spirituális, társadalmi igazságossági és...

Involvement of the Roma population in informal waste collection in the CEE (Central and Eastern Europe) region has barely been researched with collectors as research subjects themselves. This article focuses on collection of bulky municipal waste by predominantly Roma informal waste collectors....

Objective: This study aims to investigate the impact of socio-demographic factors on childbirth satisfaction in Hungary, with a particular focus on the role of informal payments. While previous research has extensively examined maternal satisfaction, the specific influence of socio-demographic...

A politikai vezetői szerepeket olyan hagyományosan maszkulin jellemzőkkel társítják, mint az asszertivitás és a versenyszellem, így a férfi politikusokhoz viszonyítva a politikusnők önreprezentációja kiemelt területnek számít a politikai kommunikációkutatásban. A női...

Citizenship Utopias in the Global South is an edited collection of empirical research that explores emergent forms of activism in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in times of multiple crises. At the intersection of hope and disillusionment, the diverse and thought-provoking chapters investigate...

A globalizálódott sportpiac egyik fő mozgatórugója a klubtól elkülönülő piacokon élő, de klub iránt rajongó ún. ”szatellit szurkoló”. Jelen cikk célja, hogy a társas identitás elméleti kereteit felhasználva megértse, hogy miként válnak magyar sportfogyasztók egy...

This study investigates attitudes towards the adoption rights and parenting skills of same-sex couples in 25 European countries using data from the European Social Survey and the European Values Study. The aim is to explore how political-demographic processes and various types of pronatalism...

Many non‐migrant politicians, journalists, and scholars in migrant‐ destination societies often represent migrants with self‐interested objectives and in specific instrumental ways based on stereotypes. Yet research on symbolic interaction reveals migrants are not passive victims. They...

Digital collaborative platforms have become crucial venues of career advancement and individual success in many creative fields, from engineering to the arts. Gender discrimination related to behavioral choices of users is a key component to gendered disadvantage on platforms. Such platforms...

This study investigates the intricate relationship between cognitive sociology and sustainable eating practices, specifically focusing on organic food purchase behaviours. We aim to uncover the complex social drivers influencing these behaviours by bridging social practice theory with...

This paper studies a model of network formation in which agents create links following a simple heuristic - they invest their limited resources proportionally more in neighbours who have fewer links. This decision rule captures the notion that when considering social value more connected agents...

This article explores the experiences of Syrian refugee women in Spain after the 2011 conflict, focusing on their acculturation strategies and shifts in gender roles. Through semi-structured interviews with ten participants, analyzed using thematic analysis, the study identifies how factors such...

This study investigates how the publication practices of Hungarian researchers in the field of chemistry align with the global benchmarks set by award-winning scientists in 2022. Prestigious awards enhance already notable visibility and serve as quality measures of research output. Our analysis...

This study aims to describe how different social classes in Turkey perceive inequality through their values regarding economic issues. The study evaluates the agreement of members of different social classes with neoliberal values related to income equality, livelihood, competition, and success...

In an era characterized by technological advancement, globalization, and evolving workplace dynamics, soft skills have emerged as a critical component of personal and professional success. This paper provides a comprehensive exploration of soft skills, encompassing their definition, relevance,...

In this paper, Budapest’s Szoborpark is analyzed as an archive from a discursive perspective considering concepts like ideology, society, history, discursive formations, subject, and meaning. For this reason, besides theoretical presuppositions, essential historical information is given in...

Workers in the informal sector constitute a disadvantaged group of employees in Vietnam. Though they contribute significantly to national GDP, they do not have a chance to benefit from social security policies. In 2020, the proportion of workers in the informal sector increased rapidly and then...

Violence against women (VAW) is a widespread human rights abuse, and it is persevering despite the efforts of various government ministries, non-governmental organizations, civic societies, communities, and individuals to combat it. In this article, I explore the patterns of narratives of people...

Women with disabilities face unique challenges in employment due to their intersectional identities, a claim supported by intersectionality theory (Crenshaw 1989). Research has consistently shown that these women encounter greater barriers and disadvantages in securing employment than their...

The current advancements in information technology enable us to build the global digital platform economy. Szerb et al. (2022) propose the Digital Platform Economy (DPE) Index, which includes four sub-indices and twelve pillars (each with two variables) to estimate the scale of the digital...

The participatory approach is becoming more widespread in the social sciences and is also starting to take hold in the study of language in society. However, there has been little research done on how critical sociolinguistics can be linked to research that is based on the involvement and...

Background: In Hungary, although six types of vaccines were widely available, the percentage of people receiving the primary series of COVID-19 vaccination remained below the EU average. This paper investigates the reasons for Hungary’s lower vaccination coverage by exploring changing...

In recent years, social media has been recognized as instrumental in shaping the discourse around displaced persons, particularly through the power of metaphorical framing. Given that online communication can lead to real-world consequences for individuals, X (formerly known as Twitter) now...

This article critically examines the perpetuation of gender regimes within postsocialist Europe by analyzing how organizational recognition is performed as part of the corporate celebration of Christmas. A critical ethnography was conducted at a male-dominated company in postsocialist Hungary....

Many European societies follow pronatalist family policies; nevertheless, in all countries, the total fertility rate is below replacement level and the rate of childless people is growing. Meanwhile, among demographers and policymakers, immigration is discussed as a way to increase the labor...

A várható élettartam növekedése a magas jövedelmű országok körében jelentősen ellaposodott az elmúlt évtizedekben. Az életmódból fakadó nem-fertőző krónikus betegségek egyre nagyobb tömegeket érintenek a fejlett országokban, ami hosszú távon megakaszthatja a várható...

A tanulmány célja a jóllét alapú értékelési módszer alkalmazásával egy életminőséggel korrigált életév (QALY) pénzben kifejezett értékének a kiszámítása. Ehhez először keresztmetszeti, online felmérését végeztünk a magyar felnőtt lakosság körében, összesen...

Tanulmányunk a különböző társadalmi hátterű diákok általános iskolai teljesítményében megnyilvánuló különbségek és a szegregáció alakulását mutatja be a 2006 és 2019 közötti időszakban. Számításaink szerint az adott időszakban jelentős mértékben nőtt a...

Hazai általános népesség körében készült vizsgálatokból (Paksi et al. 2021) tudjuk, hogy a fiatal felnőtt korosztály jelentősen érintettebb egészségkárosító magatartások szempontjából az idősebb korosztályhoz képest. Számos hazai és nemzetközi kutatás készült,...

Our study investigated the acculturation process in a new culture from the perspectives of immigrants (interviewees) and members of the receiving culture (interviewers). One hundred and seven semi-structured interviews were carried out with foreigners from 38 countries who lived in Hungary for...

In a research study among university students regarding technological change, equality and environmental sustainability, deep-seated dichotomies were found in the students' mental images of the future. This study aims to present these dichotomies as well as propose explanations for them, adding...

Purpose: Gender equality is an important issue, targeted all around the world, see for example the Gender Equality Strategy articulated by the European Union. These goals were hindered by COVID-19, which caused a well-documented she-cession: females were hit harder than males. Thispaper shows...

Public sector organizations, particularly intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), are expected to integrate gender-responsive practices into their operations to promote gender mainstreaming and diversity. Such initiatives can also be incorporated into these IGOs' corporate procurement endeavors...

Studies on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) emphasize the need for the integration of a victim-centered lens into Feminist International Relations (IR) frameworks on sexual violence victimization in conflict or war. However, our understanding of the perpetrator-centered lens is limited....

Az új csendes generáció elméleti megközelítésének alapjait Mannheim Károly gondolata, illetve William Strauss és Neil Howe modellje rakta le. A mannheimi gondolat abból indul ki, hogy a karakteres generáció létrejöttéhez szükség van olyan eseményre vagy folyamatra, amely...

This study examines how working with extremely poor clients contributes to social worker burnout. Previous research has shown that the emotional labour social workers perform on a daily basis may have negative consequences such as job stress and burnout. Studies have also reported that...

Social choice rules can be defined or derived by minimizing distance-based objective functions. One problem with this approach is that any social choice rule can be derived by selecting an appropriate distance function. Another problem comes from the computational difficulty of determining the...

Wonder implies the desire to learn. Aristotle A number of surveys, conducted in the aftermath of COVID19, have found that levels of trust in scientists are moderately high worldwide, although there are significant differences between countries. As the largest global survey reveals, scientists...

A Project Syndicate portál nemrég közölt egy Mariana Mazzucato-val készült interjút [1], melyben arról faggatták a közgazdászt, hogy felülvizsgálhatónak tartja-e a 2020-ban Robert Skidelsky-vel közösen publikált véleményét [2], mely szerint a koronavírusjárvány okozta...

While the motivations behind rural mobility have been extensively studied, the factors determining immobility are less discussed. In this study, we applied a quantitative and qualitative methodology built on a theoretical framework based on the literature to analyse primary and secondary data to...

While there has been a proliferation of research on the experiences of nonelite students in elite settings, scholarly attention has predominantly focused on institutions like the Ivy League or Oxbridge, leaving other geographical locales, notably in Europe, understudied. Past research has...

In this paper I would like to summarize the last two decades of this major research program, which was launched in 2000. In the history of youth research in Hungary following the transition to democracy, the Hungarian large sample youth survey is one of, if not the most, important research...