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This article explores Hungarian sociographic documentary films from the late 1960s and 1970 which called attention to the inner contradictions of the consolidated Kádár regime. Representatives of critical sociology and filmmakers shared the view that many of these contradictions were the result of the discrepancy between ideological and empirical perceptions of social reality, the emergence of dual social consciousness, and the strict control over access to the public sphere. The paper argues that consolidating the political system came at the cost of setting off an epistemic crisis characterised by the desperate suppression of knowledge and experience incompatible with the official interpretations of social phenomena. Analysing a handful of films made about rural poverty, the Roma minority, and agricultural businesses, the article explores in great detail how documentary strategies of analytical realism depleted and invalidated official concepts (e.g. the concept of maternity, Romani, cooperative democracy) and brought to light concealed layers of individual and social experience. In broad terms, the article claims that a new kind of political cinema came into existence during the consolidated Kádár regime, a cinema which exposed the epistemological unconscious of political establishment and opened new avenues for the understanding of Hungarian society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The research on Roma/Gypsy people in Hungary is extensive, and their common characteristic is that they have very different perspectives due to the wide range of disciplinary approaches. Although both international and domestic investigations are now attempting to define themselves as a separate scientific discipline under the heading of Romani studies/Gypsiology, these efforts are not considered to be very successful, since they represent a very heterogeneous vision. In my study, I take stock of the main features of the different disciplinary approaches. In doing so, I argue that the study of Gypsy-Hungarian coexistence can be achieved by bringing together social-historical, sociological, and anthropological perspectives. In the other major unit of the paper, I present the production of the process of ethnic boundary formation and their characteristic differences through two case studies. In my study of ethnic coexistence situations in the Carpathian Basin, I found that Roma and non-Roma coexistence practices are always based on opposition (dichotomization), regardless of whether they live with Romanians, Saxons, or Hungarians. On the contrary, in living together with non-Roma ethnic groups, a complementary relationship prevails from the very beginning, which maintains differences in a physical and/or symbolic way, but recognises and considers the other ethnic group's independent form of existence as equal to its own. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper presents the hunting-related photographs in the Original Photograph Collection of the Museum and Library of Hungarian Agriculture, with particular attention to those that can add further information to sociology research in connection with 19th-20th century agrarian history. The photographs can be divided into three larger thematic categories: hunting exhibitions (museum and specialist shows in Paris, Pressburg and Vienna); the so-called press photos and event photos made between the 1890s to the 1960s with references to general history and featuring historical characters; and the photographs of game management in the post-1945 era. The paper gives an insight to the photographic reports of contemporary press, comparing them to photos kept in the collection. Further information is provided about the typical poses used for hunting genre photos. As a result, short descriptions are given among others about the shooting parties that took place on the Gödöllő estate of Kaiser Franz Joseph and the entailed properties of Archduke Friedrich and Isabella Féltorony, Karapancsa, Bellye) and similar major aristocratic events (at Gödöllő, Parnó, the High Tatra). The collection also includes material from the hunting writer József Fónagy and those relating to Governor Miklós Horthy. The major photographers of the period are also mentioned (Mór Erdélyi, Gyula Jelfy, Oszkár Kallos, Eugène Pirou and Moriz Nahr) who were either present at the shooting parties or took photos at the aforementioned exhibitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Soldiers of the First World War didnot only fight, but they also wrotewhile on the battlefronts. Duringthe Great War, not only goods weremass produced, but texts as well.This short paper intends to presentan analysis of how texts producedon the battlefront are a tool, amechanism for internalising thewar narrative. It analyses writingnot as a means for communicationor for representing, but rather as ameans for predefining events, fordisciplining oneself, for creatingthe individual disposition of self-sacrifice. Building on Foucault’sconcept of discipline and Goffman’sdramaturgical sociology, this paperis based on a close reading of thecorpus of one particular soldier ofthe Austro-Hungarian Army. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Role and Dangers of Selfie Culture from a Social-Psychological Perspective During the COVID-19 Pandemic In 2013, “selfie” was named the word of the year by the Oxford English Dictionary, implying a self-portrait photograph taken by oneself using a digital camera or a smartphone, mainly to post on social media. In the past decade, selfies have become a new medium for self-expression and self-representation (Qiu et al. 2015). On social media platforms, users publish virtual self-representations that are influenced by “real-life” individual and societal changes (Hogan & Quan-Haase 2010); which is also reflected during the COVID-19 pandemic. The use of social media and self-representation in social media posts increased during the first and the second wave of the pandemic, with selfies among the most popular types of content shared (Sándor 2022a; Sándor 2022b). The goal of the current paper is to provide a concise review of the selfie phenomenon from the perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic, supported by the author's research results on self-representation and image modification on social media.

During investigation of business relationships the notion of trust is also included which originally was a research topic of social psychology and sociology. In this paper the author deals with factors that determine trust in business relationships. That's why Hungarian organizations (mainly companies) were asked using quantitative methodology. This empirical survey endeavours to collect possibly each building element of trust. The interviewed persons focused either on one of their buyers or one of their suppliers and related each question to this chosen relationship with regard of asset specificity, information sharing, replaceability, partner's reputation, and perceived conflict. The data show us that none of the factors has dominant role but the investigated factors develop together the concrete level of trust. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a research paper on the establishment and determining factors of social relations which emphasizes the most essential impact such as forming of institutions, establishment of the acting possibilties, and the interconnection of acting possibilities.

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The mistake incarnates the deviation to an expected status, which is not good. Understandably mistakes are generally negative for the members of performance oriented organizations. With this article I would like to point out within the relationship between mistakes and organizational behavior that making mistakes is unavoidable, moreover it is desirable. The mistake is processed in a sociological sense as "differing from a certain expected result state", but not beyond that, for example not in statistical sense and not considering any probability of a mistake. This paper takes the dimensions of the mistake definition and their impact on the main systems of sociology into a detailed consideration. The article arrives to the interlocking of the mistake and the organizational behavior through one of the fundamental supporters of evolution and development: through the mistake culture. The impact of the mistakes and the interdependence of the members in the modern society have grown. The efficiency of the sociological systems and its relation to mistakes are very important aspects for shaping the future. Pre- and post-defect strategies are presented, which are based on the positive character of the mistake and on the realization of the opportunities in it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents a bibliography of sociology of religions for 2002, including Acta Sociologica, American Journal of Sociology, The British Journal of Sociology and Iglesia Viva.