Contemporary Hungarian Society
Social Changes in Hungary from Late State Socialism
- 350 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
This book examines social change in Hungary, commencing with the period of late-stage socialism, the country's immediate post-communist transition, its subsequent consolidation, and the emergence of authoritarian leadership since 2010. The volume seeks to employ a longitudinal and comparative perspective and provides comparison to other central and East European states that emerged from state socialism.
The Hungarian regime change of 1989–1990 led to previously unimaginable social and economic transition. In recent decades, regime change and socioeconomic transition in Central and Eastern Europe have produced a library of literature, and transition studies has periodically become a discipline in its own right. The author uses an interdisciplinary approach – drawing from social history, sociology, statistics, and contemporary history – in order to understand and analyse social change in all its complexity.
The book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, social scientists, historians, experts, and those interested in Hungarian and Central and Eastern European history and social change.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Approaches to the regime change, post-communism, and illiberalism: Concepts and interpretations
- 3 Demographic change shifts in Hungarian society, 1980–2021
- 4 The spatial distribution of Hungarian society
- 5 Minority groups and ethnicities, from within and beyond the borders of Hungary
- 6 Social stratification: Mobility and social structure during the post-communist transition and in the illiberal system
- 7 Old, new, and reviving social groups, from the post-communist transition period to the illiberal system
- 8 Society and politics during the post-communist transition, the early twenty-first century, and under illiberalism
- 9 Collective opinion and values
- 10 Social relations and situations
- 11 Unique aspects of the transformation of Hungarian society between 1980 and 2020: From the perspective of a Central and Eastern European comparison
- Appendix
- Index