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Equal opportunities in communication in Hungary - a historical overview from 1847 to date, (Part) II.

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Szekfu A.
Tudomanyos es Muszaki Tajekoztatas ( Scientific and Technical Information; Hungarian journal of library and information science)
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2007
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vol. 54
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issue 1
3-28
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Social inequalities can be observed in many fields, including communication and mass communication too. These inequalities lead to the 'communication divide': some people have the opportunity to use various communication technologies and some have not, depending on their level of education, their economic situation or other factors. This study puts the communication divide in Hungary in historical perspective, from the use of the first telegraph to the use of the Internet. The paper also aims to demonstrate the various means that social policies, the commercial sector and civil society can offer in order to reduce the communication divide. The first part of the paper (published in 'Scientific and Technical Information', vol. 53, No. 10) dealt with the topics of social inequality, communication divide, publicity, and information and communication technologies. The second part focuses on the history of the communication means and the spreading of Internet use in Hungary.
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Equal opportunities in communication in Hungary - a historical overview from 1847 to date (Part I.)

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Szekfu A.
Tudomanyos es Muszaki Tajekoztatas ( Scientific and Technical Information; Hungarian journal of library and information science)
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2006
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vol. 53
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issue 10
457-466
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Social inequalities appear in various dimensions. Inequality in the access to the means of individual and mass communication constitutes a field that has not yet been fully explored by sociological research. This paper gives a historical overview of communications inequality in Hungary starting from 1847, the year of the establishment of the first telegraph station, till the new communication technologies of the present. Drawing on the results of researchers from Wilson to Keane and van Dijk, the study extends the notion of digital divide into a broader 'communication divide', showing how inequalities in access to the different means of communication may distort the elementary preconditions of the 'public sphere' (Offentlichkeit). Through secondary analysis of recent empirical research data, the author suggests that in Hungary there is a hard core of communication 'have-not' (with only 3 terrestrial TV channels and no Internet connection) which constitutes approximately one third of the population. While other strata have acquired more and more technologies and even gadgets, this one third of 'have-not' has not diminished over the last few years. One of the aims of the study is to suggest a communication policy approach where market mechanisms keep their proper place in introducing and spreading innovations, but social policy measures help to narrow the ever-recurring divide between the 'have' and the 'have-not'.
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Equal opportunities at the Metropolitan Ervin Szabo Library, Budapest

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Benine-Virag M., Budavari K., Farkas F., Horvathne-Jakubecz I., Kiss K., Udvarnoky V.
Tudomanyos es Muszaki Tajekoztatas ( Scientific and Technical Information; Hungarian journal of library and information science)
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2008
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vol. 55
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issue 8
355-367
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The Metropolitan Ervin Szabo Library drew up its strategic plan for equal opportunities in 2002 and since then, the action plan has been implemented gradually, according to the budget conditions of the library. The Central Library and the branch libraries have made significant efforts to ensure both physical and web accessibility in their services. This article summarises the librarians' experiences obtained through the accomplishment of a great variety of tasks related to physical and technology accessibility. A special emphasis is given to the library website and the special devices which facilitate its use by disabled users. Other special services include the book-delivery service, the ICT training for the blind, as well as the special user education programmes for disadvantaged and dyslexic children.
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Services for the blind and visually impaired at the Metropolitan Ervin Szabo Library

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Techy T.
Tudomanyos es Muszaki Tajekoztatas ( Scientific and Technical Information; Hungarian journal of library and information science)
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2005
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vol. 52
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issue 6
268-272
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The Central Library of the Metropolitan Ervin Szabo Library has elaborated a multi-annual programme supporting disabled library users. This article presents the ICT tools specifically designed for the visually impaired that the library uses, the achievements in the field of training and communication, as well as the next tasks. The hardware and software tools were purchased with the support of the Equal Opportunities for the Disabled Fund and the National Cultural Fund.
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Changing family - changing family policies

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Nemenyi M., Takacs J.
Szociologiai Szemle (Sociological Review)
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2005
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vol. 15
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issue 4
3-35
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This article presents the findings of a qualitative research project which aimed to map the political evaluations and the social effects of the changing concept of family and the changing forms of family life. By interviewing political and economic decision-makers we intended to highlight the goals and the motives of the different family policy approaches, the characteristic features of the family concepts reflected by the policy-makers' decisions, as well as the relationship between state family policies and labor market policies on the one hand, and equal treatment expectations concerning both genders, on the other. On the basis of interviews conducted with ordinary people we examined how much people's lives are practically influenced by the family policy measures introduced by the political and the economic decision makers. According to our findings the two different categories of respondents saw specific family policy issues in different ways - their interpretations of family policy as a whole, however, were rather convergent. The importance of providing equal opportunities for men and women, increasing the female employment rate, acknowledging the plurality of family lifestyles, reconciling work and family life - being European expectations as well as conditions of a satisfactory life - seemed to be overshadowed by the demographic issues of fertility and procreation.
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THE CONCEPTUAL DETERMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN THE EDUCATION

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Laki I.
Tarsadalomkutatas (Social Science Research)
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2008
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vol. 25
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issue 3
389-397
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The present paper wishes to demonstrate the situation of people living with disabilities and the related interpretations. People living with disabilities are a prominent social problem in the Hungarian society today, trying to conform not only to the European Union, but also to the Hungarian system. In the study, the author objective is to draw attention to what exactly the meaning of discrimination is, the frames of its interpretation and how it affects people living with disabilities. He also examines what it means to be disabled, what perspectives this group has in social integration concerning their acceptance and their participation in the education system. He is convinced that the Hungarian society is still not able to properly handle the situation of living with disabilities, nor help their social integration.
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SOCIALIST EGALITARIAN POLICIES AND EDUCATION INEQUALITY IN CENTRAL EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR II

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Kreidl M.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2006
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vol. 38
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issue 3
199 – 220
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This paper investigates the effect of ‘Communist Affirmative Action’ on inequality in access to secondary and post-secondary education in five former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe between 1948 and 1989. The author argues that earlier research failed to identify any periods of reduced inequality in former socialist countries because it employed inadequate definitions of both the dependent and independent variables. He corrects these inaccuracies and he investigates data from the ‘Social Stratification in Eastern Europe after 1989’ survey. The author is indeed able to document that inequality in access to education declined during the periods of the most extreme Communism in the early 1950s and, in some countries, also during the early 1970s.
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