November 2006
Újgazdagok— újszegények


  Bevezető
  

  Egy bölcső felett; Gyilkos-tó; A megvert lány balladája (versek)
  Eszteró István

  Társadalmi változás, térségi rétegződés
  Biró A. Zoltán

  „Lecsúsztunk, és egyszerre mindent elveszítettünk”
  Oláh Norbert-Sándor–Péter László

  A megtört idő (vers)
  Bordy Margit

  Szegénység és depriváció a Székelyföldön
  Telegdy Balázs

  Falusi kisvállalkozók életmódja
  Oláh Sándor

  Gazdag cigányok, szegény romák
  Rareş Beuran

  A Becali-jelenség
  Cseke Péter Tamás

  Az „erkölcsi ellenzék” nemzedéke
  Interjú Láng Gusztávval


1956–2006
  Egy 1956-os erdélyi utazás folytatása
  Gömöri Györggyel beszélget Cseke Péter


Toll
  Merjük az igazságot kimondani
  Degenfeld Sándor

  Borbáth Károly történészi alapvonásai
  Egyed Ákos

  Vargyasi leltár 1980 tavaszán
  Demény Lajos

  Európa szelíd bája
  Kalinovszky Dezső

  Barna reménytelenség
  Csekéné Kolcsár Irén


Világablak
  Integrációs kérdőjelek
  Pomogáts Béla

  Mentalitásválság–mentalitásváltás
  Péntek Imre

  Világsiker – kérdőjelekkel és új esély a magyar futballnak
  Frenkl Róbert


Közelkép
  A deprivált népesség
  Mihály Emőke

  Európai örökségünk
  Eckart Wilfried Schreiber

  Roma holokauszt
  Nágó Zsuzsa Emese


Levelestár
  A személyi kultusz virágzásának éveiben...
  K. L.


Téka
  Hol élne ma Ovidius?
  Gál Andrea

  Kölcsönfény
  Rigán Lóránd

  Dumapolitika
  Demeter M. Attila

  Glokális dilemmák
  Ambrus Attila

  Árvíztörténet – mentalitástörténeti tanulságokkal
  Bodó Márta

  A Korunk könyvajánlata
  


Talló
  Társadalom- és gazdaságfejlesztési modellek versenye az Európai Unióban
  Ráduly Zoltán

  Dan Perjovschi nemzetközi sikereirõl
  K. E.

  Gyermekszegénység
  Cs. K. I.



  Abstracts
  

  Számunk szerzői
  

Abstracts

 

György Gömöri–Péter Cseke

Interview

 

Péter Cseke’s interview with György Gömöri focuses on the year 1956. The interviewee tells about his role in the preparation of the October 23rd student demonstration in Budapest and the editing of the student paper “University Youth” during the revolution. It was he who chose the motto for the newspaper – a line from Attila József, Socialist poet. Gömöri also talks about his research in numerous European libraries and archives as well as his connections with Hungarian writers in Romania. At the end of the interview he states that it is imperative for him to tell facts and personal experiences about the 56 revolution and refute recent party political demands to “rewrite” history.

 

Emőke Mihály

Sociological Study of the Poor Specific Attitudes toward the Money

 

The present study is an anthropological inquiry into the specific attitudes toward the issue of household budgets and expenditures specific for the new urban poor in the social context of Cluj. The author tries to test the so-called “culture of poverty” hypothesis regarding the differences between the poor and non-poor. Mihály describes the main types in which the members of a very poor and segregated urban community deal with the acute lack of liquidity in their everyday life routine. The main result shows that all the specific elements in the patterns are determined by structural and not by cultural factors.

 

Norbert-Sándor Oláh–László Péter

Study of Poverty and Impoverishment in Cluj

 

Oláh and Péter’s article tries to offer a thick sociological picture about the impoverishment process taking place in the specific local context of Cluj seen through the life course of the new urban segregated poor. The typical trajectories are presented and explained in detail. In the study the authors argue that we are witnessing the rise of a new excluded social class, which is strongly connected with the specific locative situation. In the most cases the impoverishment process took place so dramatically and rapidly because of the dense and outer shock events like divorce, illness and sudden death connected with the general economical context that produced inevitable downdrafts.

 

Sándor Oláh

The Way of Living of Rural Entrepreneurs

 

The author has interviewed 25 different rural entrepreneurs in 16 villages, who had started their business after 1990. The study reveals the existence of a small group of rural entrepreneurs, whose way of living is characterized by prestige consumption. At the same time, the building style of their residences, their sports passions and other spare time activities are modernist ones, with no precedent in the life of the village. The life style, time and money spending, as well as money earning practice of the rural entrepreneurs is definitely characterized by asceticism leading to accumulation, by the rational calculating behavior. The primary objective of their thinking and of their practical actions is the growth of their enterprise. This determines the everyday hard working style, the consumption manner of the families and individuals. Their general economic/house-keeping ideology is the continual reinvestment of the profit for ensuring the growth of the enterprise or the preservation of its market position.

 

Imre Péntek

Mentality Crisis and Changing Mentality

 

Even non-human species like chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys have a clear sense of fairness. But humans are considered to be much more prosocial then non-human species. We even care for the welfare of unrelated group members. How can a specie that shows such an unusual sense of fairness develop interethnic conflicts? The paper outlines some lessons from game theory that could explain to some extent the development of interethnic conflicts and it also shows how game theory could be taken seriously by political leaders in improving interethnic relations. The author demonstrates some of the shortcomings of political strategies used nowadays in improving interethnic relations and he argues that a change in the mentality of political leaders is imminent.

 

Eckart Wilfried Schreiber

Our European Heredity: Mentality, Life and Customs of the Transylvanian Germans

 

Beginning with the 12th Century the Transylvanian Germans, called „Saxons” („szászok”) settled to the central part of Transylvania. They heavily influenced the subsequent economical and cultural evolution of this region. Unfortunately, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, after eight hundred years of history in Transylvania most of the Transylvanian Saxon people decided to leave again their homes for a better life. Nowadays the Saxons live mostly in Germany, Austria, America and Canada. By the means of the Homeland Organization and Compatriot Organization they are kept together and they are connected to the Saxons from Romania. In the present times we can witness an interesting new process of migration: the Saxons and even the Germans from Germany return to Romania, bringing large financial capital, economical models and knowledge, offering the Romanians the opportunity to successfully integrate into the European market.

 

Balázs Telegdy

Poverty and deprivation in Székelyföld (Seklerland, South-Eastern Transylvania)

 

In the study the author analyses who can be considered poor and deprived in the region mentioned in the title. This is a method-based study, in which it is applied the method used by Zsolt Spéder and Balázs Kapitány in identifying the group of people mentioned above. The empirical data comes from a representative survey, made by the KAM institute in 2004.