The new National Atlas of Hungary – volume Society

The current volume, National Atlas of Hungary – Society, is Part 3 of the series. It presents the special world of Hungarian society and, according to the availability of data, also that of the Carpatho–Pannonian Area. By combining the tools of statistics, geography and cartography, the maps present the spatial structure accompanied by numerous graphs, photos, texts and infographics.The present volume of the National Atlas, Society, contributes to a much deeper understanding of processes and a better understanding of the relationships between phenomena through the presentation of the spatial diversity of demographic and social processes in historical perspective. This is a significant record of the period also showing the challenges that Hungarian society faces at the end of the second decade of the 21st century. This addition to the National Atlas of Hungary – with its extensive body of knowledge presented in this work – is an important document of great benefit not only togeographers but also to historians, economists, politicians, and all other interested parties.

Improving Living Conditions, Deepening Class Divisions: Hungarian Class Structure in International Comparison, 2002–2018

This article investigates the changing relationship of class and the living conditions of individuals in Hungary in comparison with other European countries. Our central question is to what extent class position determines the material living conditions of individuals in Hungary, how this relationship has changed, and how significant it is compared to other European countries. Our analysis is a direct test of the death-of-class thesis in one of the core fields of class analysis. Our results show that there has been a rapid and large-scale restructuring of Hungarian society after 2010, with two notable tendencies. The first is an overall improvement of material living conditions at all levels of the class structure, the other is the gradual solidification and polarisation of class structure.

Simon Szántó, Nineteenth Century Viennese Writer and Educator: A Study on Integration, Particularism, and the Ideal of Bildung

Simon Szántó is known as one of the founders of the Jewish press in Vienna, the editor and main author of the Jewish periodical Die Neuzeit, and an influential educator during the high point of Austrian liberalism between the 1860s and the early 1880s. His enormously rich literary legacy covers issues such as the integration of Jews into the Austrian-Hungarian society, religious reform, gender roles, and particularly education. Szántó’s writings offer a unique opportunity to look at the Viennese liberal period of the second half of the nineteenth century and its challenges through the eyes of a mostly overlooked, but highly significant and influential actor of the time. This article will first introduce Simon Szántó’s cultural and educational background that impacted his ideals and his activities, and go on to discuss one of his main concerns, namely Jewish education. Religious education, confessional schooling, and Jewish upbringing at home bore the burden of responsibility for shaping Austrian Jewish women and men. These Jews were to be integrated in an Austrian culture, while at the same time to retain a strong Jewish particularity. Szántó aimed to unite this dichotomous reality through the realization of his ideals of Jewish Bildung.

Museums to strengthen young people’s resilience after the COVID-19 Juventocid

Hungary is one of those European countries whose subsoil resources are close to zero. The future of the country lies essentially in the human capital of Hungarian youth. Potentially, the Hungarian museum system plays a key political role in helping Hungarian society to overcome the political immunosenescence of the Corona episode, so that state, municipal and private funding of museum activities achieve a significant return-on-investment. The aim of the research is to determine some of the factors by which the human capital of young people today is greatly reduced after they have had to live for a long time without social recognition by their peers during the Corona period. The result of the research is that we can speak of a COVID-19 Juventocide. The long theft of the resonance space on the one hand, and the shifting of costs into the future and thus to the detriment of the now young on the other, led to a lasting material and immaterial weakening also of Hungarian society the Cultural Long-Covid. It is therefore a central political task to strengthen the resilience of the young again and to take countermeasures after the Covid-19 Juventocide. Our hypothesis - to be verified in the coming years in a renewed Hungarian museum practice - is that Hungarian museums can play a crucial role in this re-resilience task. The Hungarian government should prioritise the funding of artists and cultural institutions to dampen the long-term impact of the Corona measures.

Conference report from 13th European Conference on Precision Agriculture (ECPA)

This is a report on the 13th European Conference on Precision Agriculture (ECPA) that took place between 18 and 22, July at the location of the University of Public Service in Budapest, Hungary. The theme of the Conference was the “Adoption of innovative precision agriculture technologies and solutions”. Due to the pandemic, the conference was a hybrid event. The two societies—the International Society of Precision Agriculture and the Hungarian Society of Precision Agriculture—had contributed to the event. The international conference was mainly attended by academic researchers, university instructors, company executives and farmers. The event comprised five plenary and 22 scientific sessions.

Types of Solidarity in a Hybrid Regime: The Hungarian Case

Our aim in this article is to show the stance on solidarity present in a hybrid regime. Taking Hungary as an example, we give individual-level explanations for attitudes towards solidarity and inclusion/exclusion in times when populist parties are in power. By creating typical solidarity groups, we explain who belongs to different solidarity clusters and why, what political orientations can be linked to solidarity groups and whether people's attitudes reflect the values/solidarity conceptions propagated by the Orbán government. With this, we point to the social and political polarization of Hungarian society. We found that the appreciated, satisfied and politically trustful far-right exclusive groups – independent of their social status – make up not only the majority of society but also the crucial system-justifying basis of the Orbán regime. However, in an ethnically rather homogeneous society foreigners could be seen as cultural and economic threats to the decisive majority, including a significant part of the inclusive groups.

Analyzing Ethnocentric Immigration through the Case of Hungary – Demographic Effects of Immigration from Neighboring Countries to Hungary

Specific ethnocentric international migration processes can be observed in Hungary: a significant proportion of immigrants are of Hungarian ethnic background and come from neighboring countries. Similar processes can be observed between other kin-states and co-ethnic communities of Central and Eastern Europe, but this type of migration has not been studied intensively yet. The focus of the research is on the effects of this immigration on Hungarian society and the economy. Population projections were also carried out according to two research questions: “what would have happened if the immigrants had not arrived according to the processes that were experienced?” and “what will happen if the immigration process changes?” The research is based on the 2011 census data sets; the target group is the population born in neighboring countries that moved to Hungary after 1985. Results show that the ethnic Hungarian immigrant population has been a crucial human resource in Hungary. Without these immigrants, Hungary's demographic trends would also be less favorable. Moreover, in contrast to the situation typical of European immigrants, the socio-economic situation of the former is more favorable than of the host society. Potential decline of this immigration population could indeed be challenging.

Házassági formák és női vagyonjog a magyar társadalomfejlődés korai szakaszában

In the early Hungarian society, multiple forms of cohabitation and marriage were present, often overlapping each other. Separating these forms can only be done by examining certain elements of matrimonial property laws formed by the customary laws of the time. We can only learn about the property laws during the Era of the Arpad Dynasty from written deeds about how these laws were implemented. This study outlines how the different forms of marriage were related to each other and to the property rights of women. It is inaccurate to believe that women in the Middle Ages were disenfranchised, the various forms of marriage had corresponding property laws. Each law and the frequency of their occurrence in these examined documents is discussed in the conceptual system of legal and social history.

Az IGHV-mutációs státusz vizsgálata a Magyar Hematológiai és Transzfuziológiai Társaság Molekuláris Diagnosztika Munkacsoportjának laboratóriumaiban

Összefoglaló. A Magyar Hematológiai és Transzfuziológiai Társaság (MHTT) Onkohematológiai Molekuláris Diagnosztikai Munkacsoportja öt egyetemi és országos onkohematológiai centrumban 2018 és 2020 között 2261 krónikus limfocitás leukémiában (CLL) szenvedő beteg immunglobulin nehézláncgénjének (IGHV-) vizsgálatát végezte el a rutindiagnosztika keretében, jelen írásunkban ezen eredményeket foglaljuk össze. A vizsgált minták 53,5%-a bizonyult nem mutált immunglobulin nehézlánccal rendelkező CLL-nek, mutált immunglobulint az esetek 41,6%-ában detektáltunk. Az átrendeződött immunglobulin-szekvenciákat 11%-ban tudtuk valamelyik CLL alcsoportba („subset”) besorolni, melyek közül a CLL#2, a CLL#1, a CLL#6, CLL#4, CLL#3 és a CLL#5 alcsoport bizonyult a leggyakoribbnak. A szerzők kiemelik, hogy az elmúlt évek fejlesztéseinek köszönhetően valamennyi hazai onkohematológiai diagnosztikus laboratóriumban elérhető a nemzetközi ajánlások alapján kivitelezett IGHV-mutáció-analízis. Summary. The Hungarian Society of Hematology and Transfusiology’s Molecular Oncohematological Diagnostic Workgroup analyzed the mutational status of the immunoglobulin gene heavy chain region in 2261 CLL patient between 2018 and 2020 in five Hungarian oncohematological center. In this cohort 53.5% of the cases proved to have unmutated immunoglobulin gene, meanwhile mutated cases represented 41.6% of the entire cohort. We detected stereotype subsets in 11%, of which CLL#2, CLL#1, CLL#6, CLL#4, CLL#3, and CLL#5 were the most common. The authors highlight that collaborative efforts during the last few years lead to availability of the IGHV mutation analysis in the Hungarian diagnostic oncohematology laboratories as recommended by international standards.