List of papers submitted in English

Abstracts - Vol. 10 (2021) No.1

Investigation of working conditions and risk factors for burnout of social and pedagogical professionals

ÁGNES GYŐRI – ÉVA PERPÉK

Abstracts - Vol. 9 (2020) No.4

Thomas Hobbes and the dilemmas of the natural state II.
The tipology of the state of nature

LEVENTE NAGY

The primary purpose of this paper is to reflect upon four aspects of the Hobbesian state of nature. Firstly, the question is whether we can interpret this original state as a mythical, abstract, imaginative and timless state, focusing only on the final conclusion of the Hobbesian theory, or it may contain a well-defined timspan, having its own historical development based on a clear logical construction. Secondly, this study aims at examining the natural character of man in the state of nature, and his harmony with his environment in respect with their „naturalness”. Thirdly, it tries to describe the assumed interpersonal relationships within the „primitve” state. Fourthly, the paper presents different states of nature reasoned out from a close reading of the text. All four aspect may help us to get a better understanding of the ambivalent character of the Hobbesian state of nature.

KEYWORDS: natural man, timless state of nature, interpersonal relationship, states of nature

Abstracts - Vol. 9 (2020) No.3

Thomas Hobbes and the dilemmas of the natural state I. The axiomatic nature of total war

NAGY LEVENTE

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on some the ideas of Thomas Hobbes, one of the founders of modern political philosophy, best known for his masterpiece, Leviathan. The aim of this essay is not to provide a full scale analysis of Hobbes’ main work, nor to present his moral or political philosophy, nor to reflect on the significance of his impact on later political thinkers. The aim is more modest, and the theme under scrutiny is more narrow: the paper is devoted to a critical analysis of the main premise (state of the nature) of Hobbes’ theory of power, including the ambivalent character of the state of nature, as well as the logical dilemmas that arise during the analysis.
After a general presentation of Hobbes’s philosophy and of the logical construction of his work, I will tend to focus on two aspects of the state of nature: firstly, I will analyse the assumed analogy between the state of nature and the Book of Genesis; secondly, I will examine whether the „war of all against all” is an axiomatic outcome of the „primitive” state. It turns out, that the answers for these questions are not so unanbiguous.

KEYWORDS: human nature, natural state, everyone’s war against everyone, civil society

Abstracts - Vol. 9 (2020) No.2

The perception of the families and the concerned social workers about the promotion of the well-being of the families and social mobility

ANDREA RÁCZ – DOROTTYA SIK

In the study our goal is to analyse the perception of the families and concerned social workers. The research was established in two regions in Hungary: in an underprivileged and disadvantaged micro-region in North Hungary and in the agglomeration around Budapest. The main focus was the perception of the available educational, social, child welfare and health services and supports. The starting point was their knowledge about these services. Beside the perception of the families, the opinion of the experts in the social support system about the value and quality level of their work is important. Analysing the quality of these services and supports is crucial to understand the mobility chance of the children living in these micro-regions. In our research public questionnaire and interviews with the families and experts were completed. The results show, that without capability and talent development for the children and the lack of welfare services, the mobility chance and opportunity of this families are extremely low. With the current social, education and health care system, and the lack of cultural possibilities, these children stuck in their disadvantaged circumstances without the hope or chance for better opportunities. The social interventions in the current child welfare system is only enough for damage control and not for prevention or increasing equality.

KEYWORDS: social work, child welfare services, social mobility, support for families with children

Abstracts - Vol. 9 (2020) No.1

Preferred leadership style, leadership and entrepreneurial inclination among university students

ÁGNES GYŐRI – GYÖRGY LENGYEL – ÉVA PERPÉK

Although many researches have been conducted on leadership styles and university students are participants in exploratory social science research quite frequently, fewer examples can be found on the application of the Full Range Leadership model among the youth. In this article, the authors examine preferred leadership styles among Hungarian students, and map their connections with managerial and entrepreneurial inclination. The online questionnaire used in the research was completed by university students studying economics, technology and social studies in the capital and beyond. The questionnaire was completed by 335 university students. The results are exploratory, and they seem to modify the existing typologies. Four distinct leadership styles could be observed within the target group, embodying the transformative, supportive, defensive, and laissez-faire leadership types. Based on multivariate analysis one may suppose that among students leadership willingness is positively connected to transformative leadership, while entrepreneurial inclination to the transformative and supportive styles.

KEYWORDS: preferred leadership style, leadership aspirations, entrepreneurial inclination, university students

Qualitative methods in HRM research: they can offer more than an escape route from statistics

KUN ANDRÁS ISTVÁN

Qualitative research methods became more and more popular in business and management disciplines. Even in economics there is an intense dispute about the wasted opportunities due to the general refusal of qualitative approaches (Lenger 2019). We should also mention, however, that successful qualitative research projects always existed in various areas of economics, they were just not frequent and not part of the mainstream routine.

Abstracts - Vol. 8 (2019) No.4

Mobilization incongruence in the Hungarian local electioms

PÉTER BENCE STUMPF

In local elections, national voting patterns are often not repeated as results show significant incongruence in terms of turnout, party performance and seat shares. Political science explains these various differences with several distinct theoretical frameworks that approach this incongruence from the aspect of voter behavior. The aim of this study is not to provide an alternative for these conventional explanations but to complement them with the detailed analysis of mobilization in an attempt to clear up certain gaps in the models. My main proposition is that parties can mobilize their supporters for the local elections with differing effectiveness producing incongruence in voter turnout and seat shares. In the capital and in the larger cities there is a mobilization gap mainly affecting left-wing voters that causes lower turnout and weaker electoral performance by these parties. This gap can most probably be explained by a combination of social and institutional factors and has a profound effect on election outcomes.

KEYWORDS: local elections, second order elections, mobilization, turnout, voting behavior

Abstracts - Vol. 8 (2019) No.3

Rural youths and their lack of mobility

IBOLYA CZIBERE – IMRE KOVÁCH

International research on the lack of mobility and its causes among people in rural areas primarily focuses on motivations for emigration and consequences of immigration. In the first half of our study we summarize the findings of the research described above. We explain the relationship between poverty and lack of mobility, review the link between agriculture and local mobility, predominantly through the functions of rural businesses. We explore the return migration of youths, especially those who move back to their village after a long period of education and/or job search. We revisit structural theories that connect migration to different types of capital and shed light on the impact of changing perceptions on rural life. We use longitudinal quantitative studies and their statistics to analyze the characteristics of the lack of mobility among Hungarian rural youths and emigration patterns between 2010-2017. The second half of our manuscript delineates the results of studies done by the Mobility Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The pertinent articles and case studies examine the role of social bonds in the lack of mobility, types of employment among rural youths, and how those influence their attachment to their village. Mobility case studies among the youths are also analyzed, along with the social representation of their identity, categories of success, the effects of poverty, their family bonds, perspectives for the future, as well as the consequences of the social and regional characteristics of their villages.

KEYWORDS: migration, lack of mobility, rural youths, regional inequalities

Abstracts - Vol. 8 (2019) No.2

Szeklerland – social science approaches

ZOLTÁN BIRÓ A.

The study reviews the situation of social science research in Szeklerland after 1989, describes the institutional framework for the organization of research. Presents the most important features of the Szekler society with a view to providing an interpretative context for the Cross-Sections Social Science Journal. It also indicates the areas of analysis in which regional researches were conducted, but could not be included in this study compilation.

KEYWORDS: social science research, Szekler region

Abstracts - Vol. 8 (2019) No.1

The stealth rehabilitation of the psychicentity

ATTILA BÁNFALVI

A deep-seated, ’constitutional problem’ of so-called psy-complex (ontologically ‘psy’ is different than matter, but it is studied by natural scientific methods) can be detected: ontologically the psyche is basically different than matter, but the main stream studies of these disciplines take the natural scientific methods as their research ideal which were created for material beings and they try to influence and change their ‘object’ by technical-technological attitude. The main aim of this paper to draw attention to some of the main consequences of this dilemma.

KEYWORDS: psychology, psychotherapy, psychiatry, critique

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2063-6415