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Familien in Ungarn. Werte, Normen, Tendenzen

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Ragadics T.

Family Forum

2012

vol. 2

59-71

According to the regular value-surveys Hungary belongs to the secular-rational and material thinking countries. As a⁠ heritage of communism there are a⁠ strong basis of paternalist structures and a⁠ low rate of trust and social capital. Although family and children are important and central parts of Hungarian value system, there are a⁠ high rate of divorces and non-marital cohabitation and a⁠ low level of willingness to marriage and childbearing in Hungarian society. Fertility index (1,3) is one of the lowest in Europe. In the background of unfavourable indicators we can find the crisis of values. These values and patterns have formed in different historical situations and effect on people as a⁠ special mixture of norms. External circumstances do not allow people to develop their learned values. Women at the labour market are impacted by double pressure: in a⁠ modern society after the expansion of higher education they are motivated to work and build a⁠ carrier. (It is also a⁠ compulsion because of the insufficient incomes.) On the other hand they share traditional values, too: women are responsible for the happiness and cohesion of families. Social problems, uncertain future, inflexible and labile workplaces do not support them to have a⁠ real chance for decision. This paper attempts to give a⁠ view about the state and roots of Hungarian values in connections with family patterns and also the current demographic trends. State, local governments, NGOs, churches and other actors in the field of social policy have a⁠ great challenge to protect and strengthen families for a⁠ renewable and sustainable society.

Social Processes Affecting the Families in Rural Hungary

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Ragadics T.

Family Forum

2020

vol. 10

111-126

Rural poverty appears in several European regions, particularly in post-socialist countries effected by a rapid transformation of socioeconomic system. In the past decade, rural regions may have reacted to challenges of contradictory processes. Migration trends are heterogeneous; unemployment, underemployment and lack of labour power are existing problems at the same time, in the same locality. In addition, the nature of poverty has changed recently. Traditional forms of pauperization are combined with helplessness and inability for future planning and saving up. Goods and status symbols of the consumer society have high importance in families with low incomes and high debt. The aim of this paper is to describe some crucial processes triggering the transformation of family life in rural Hungary by means of a qualitative research conducted in the South Transdanubian region of Hungary. We explored the actual problems and challenges from the viewpoints of local experts (social workers and mayors) and mothers from families connected to local social systems. We also aim to examine family attitudes to labour market, services and consumption, the most important factors effecting socioeconomic conditions of deprived social groups.

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