CHAPTER 5 THE POST-COMMUNIST ECONOMIC ELITE Gyorgy Lengyel Elite theory suggests two theses accou... more CHAPTER 5 THE POST-COMMUNIST ECONOMIC ELITE Gyorgy Lengyel Elite theory suggests two theses accounting for the relation between the transformation of the elite and change in the political system. The first, a weak thesis, is that if the replacement of the elite precedes the ...
The study deals with issues related to the types of connections between institutions and elites i... more The study deals with issues related to the types of connections between institutions and elites in the context of political transformations. Its essential message is that the asynchronies produced between elite structures and institutional structures determine whether the transformation will be peaceful or violent, controlled or of a spontaneous character. Subsequently, the paper presents the dimensions of elite circulation, and it discusses the relations between the ways of elite change and institutional changes. It reviews the theories of the connections between political changes and market transformation, concluding with the statement that real political transformation can only occur if it brings along both market and political changes
Finally, turning to the international stage again, the elite–population opinion gap is investigat... more Finally, turning to the international stage again, the elite–population opinion gap is investigated. It is usually the case that elites are more pro-European than the public. Recently, however, in some respects the Hungarian political elite has shown less trust in EU institutions than the population.
The Cserénfa experiment. On the attempt to install computers and Internet in a tiny village in Hu... more The Cserénfa experiment. On the attempt to install computers and Internet in a tiny village in Hungary Authors: György Lengyel, professor of sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, gyorgy.lengyel@uni-corvinus.hu Eliza Eranusz, Ph.D. student, Corvinus University of Budapest Department of Sociology and Social Policy Dániel Füleki, junior research fellow, Corvinus University of Budapest Department of eBusiness László Lőrincz, Ph.D. student, Corvinus University of Budapest Department of Sociology and Social Policy Viktória Siklós, Ph.D. student, Corvinus University of Budapest Department of Sociology and Social Policy The research aimed at studying social impacts of network-based and organized IT-learning in a local community. At the beginning of the project courses were organized, then computers and Internet accesses were made available for families, and we asked them to provide help for others on a voluntary basis. The turnout of the vill...
A kotet tartalma: Lengyel Gyorgy: A gazdasagi siker vallalati ertelmezeseről (Egy empirikus vizsg... more A kotet tartalma: Lengyel Gyorgy: A gazdasagi siker vallalati ertelmezeseről (Egy empirikus vizsgalat nehany tapasztalata). ---- Toth Istvan Janos: Vallalatok penzugyi fegyelme es novekedesi kepessege az atalakulo gazdasagban. ---- Balazs Janos: Az iparvallalati struktura atalakulasa egy longitudinalis vizsgalat tapasztalatai alapjan. ---- Janky Bela: Ipari vallalkozasok Magyarorszagon 1992-1998: Alapvető jellegzetessegek es a vallalati magatartas valtozasai
A hazai kis es kozepes vallalkozasok szama a kimutatasok szerint napjainkban mar eleri a 800 ezre... more A hazai kis es kozepes vallalkozasok szama a kimutatasok szerint napjainkban mar eleri a 800 ezret. A szerzők azt vizsgaljak, hogyan valtozott meg a vallalkozok tarsadalmi osszetetele 1988 ota, milyen jellemző gazdalkodasi magatartast kovetnek a gazdasag kisszereplői a kilencvenes evek atalakulo viszonyai kozott. Fontos kerdesuk, hogy elvalike a kisvallalkozok haztartasanak es vallalkozasanak gazdalkodasa, s kirajzolhatoe a tenyleges vallalkozok retege a tarsadalmilag rendkivul differencialt kistulajdonosok kozott.
This paper is about the criteria of selection of leaders of the Hungarian and some other East Eur... more This paper is about the criteria of selection of leaders of the Hungarian and some other East European planned economies. It deals with the connections of these criteria with education and career patterns. It interprets the changes in terms of professionalization and cadrification. It argues that because this processes are interwoven the em phasis between loyalty and education (or to put it in the immanent terminology of personnel policy: among the cate gories of political responsibility, professional knowledge and the skills of leadership) has been slightly altered during the decades of state socialism. But behind the balance of loyalty and competence those social variables which were seriously taken into account in the personnel policy have been changed frequently and sometimes dramatically. It is in tended to disclose that despite the basic similarities of social ist industrialization there were differences among the Eastern European societies, concerning the pace of cadre change...
A tanulmány szerzői 2003-ban és 2004-ben egy kísérlet során vizsgálták az IKT terjedésének hatása... more A tanulmány szerzői 2003-ban és 2004-ben egy kísérlet során vizsgálták az IKT terjedésének hatásait egy kis faluban, Cserénfán. Számítógépeket és internet-hozzáférést biztosítottak kiválasztott helyi családok számára, azt vizsgálva, hogy milyen előnyei és hátrányai vannak az információs technológia intézményi és kapcsolatháló-alapú terjedésének. Mivel a faluban működött teleház, ennek forgalmát kívánták összevetni a baráti-szomszédsági hozzáférés gyakoriságával és természetével. Vizsgálták továbbá az IKT terjedésének a település lakosságának életkörülményeire közvetve gyakorolt társadalmi hatásait is, a közérzetüket jelző indikátorok alapján. 2005 októberében visszatértek a faluba és interjúk segítségével felmérték alanyaik életének és az internetről alkotott véleményének alakulását az eltelt idő alatt.
CHAPTER 5 THE POST-COMMUNIST ECONOMIC ELITE Gyorgy Lengyel Elite theory suggests two theses accou... more CHAPTER 5 THE POST-COMMUNIST ECONOMIC ELITE Gyorgy Lengyel Elite theory suggests two theses accounting for the relation between the transformation of the elite and change in the political system. The first, a weak thesis, is that if the replacement of the elite precedes the ...
The study deals with issues related to the types of connections between institutions and elites i... more The study deals with issues related to the types of connections between institutions and elites in the context of political transformations. Its essential message is that the asynchronies produced between elite structures and institutional structures determine whether the transformation will be peaceful or violent, controlled or of a spontaneous character. Subsequently, the paper presents the dimensions of elite circulation, and it discusses the relations between the ways of elite change and institutional changes. It reviews the theories of the connections between political changes and market transformation, concluding with the statement that real political transformation can only occur if it brings along both market and political changes
Finally, turning to the international stage again, the elite–population opinion gap is investigat... more Finally, turning to the international stage again, the elite–population opinion gap is investigated. It is usually the case that elites are more pro-European than the public. Recently, however, in some respects the Hungarian political elite has shown less trust in EU institutions than the population.
The Cserénfa experiment. On the attempt to install computers and Internet in a tiny village in Hu... more The Cserénfa experiment. On the attempt to install computers and Internet in a tiny village in Hungary Authors: György Lengyel, professor of sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, gyorgy.lengyel@uni-corvinus.hu Eliza Eranusz, Ph.D. student, Corvinus University of Budapest Department of Sociology and Social Policy Dániel Füleki, junior research fellow, Corvinus University of Budapest Department of eBusiness László Lőrincz, Ph.D. student, Corvinus University of Budapest Department of Sociology and Social Policy Viktória Siklós, Ph.D. student, Corvinus University of Budapest Department of Sociology and Social Policy The research aimed at studying social impacts of network-based and organized IT-learning in a local community. At the beginning of the project courses were organized, then computers and Internet accesses were made available for families, and we asked them to provide help for others on a voluntary basis. The turnout of the vill...
A kotet tartalma: Lengyel Gyorgy: A gazdasagi siker vallalati ertelmezeseről (Egy empirikus vizsg... more A kotet tartalma: Lengyel Gyorgy: A gazdasagi siker vallalati ertelmezeseről (Egy empirikus vizsgalat nehany tapasztalata). ---- Toth Istvan Janos: Vallalatok penzugyi fegyelme es novekedesi kepessege az atalakulo gazdasagban. ---- Balazs Janos: Az iparvallalati struktura atalakulasa egy longitudinalis vizsgalat tapasztalatai alapjan. ---- Janky Bela: Ipari vallalkozasok Magyarorszagon 1992-1998: Alapvető jellegzetessegek es a vallalati magatartas valtozasai
A hazai kis es kozepes vallalkozasok szama a kimutatasok szerint napjainkban mar eleri a 800 ezre... more A hazai kis es kozepes vallalkozasok szama a kimutatasok szerint napjainkban mar eleri a 800 ezret. A szerzők azt vizsgaljak, hogyan valtozott meg a vallalkozok tarsadalmi osszetetele 1988 ota, milyen jellemző gazdalkodasi magatartast kovetnek a gazdasag kisszereplői a kilencvenes evek atalakulo viszonyai kozott. Fontos kerdesuk, hogy elvalike a kisvallalkozok haztartasanak es vallalkozasanak gazdalkodasa, s kirajzolhatoe a tenyleges vallalkozok retege a tarsadalmilag rendkivul differencialt kistulajdonosok kozott.
This paper is about the criteria of selection of leaders of the Hungarian and some other East Eur... more This paper is about the criteria of selection of leaders of the Hungarian and some other East European planned economies. It deals with the connections of these criteria with education and career patterns. It interprets the changes in terms of professionalization and cadrification. It argues that because this processes are interwoven the em phasis between loyalty and education (or to put it in the immanent terminology of personnel policy: among the cate gories of political responsibility, professional knowledge and the skills of leadership) has been slightly altered during the decades of state socialism. But behind the balance of loyalty and competence those social variables which were seriously taken into account in the personnel policy have been changed frequently and sometimes dramatically. It is in tended to disclose that despite the basic similarities of social ist industrialization there were differences among the Eastern European societies, concerning the pace of cadre change...
A tanulmány szerzői 2003-ban és 2004-ben egy kísérlet során vizsgálták az IKT terjedésének hatása... more A tanulmány szerzői 2003-ban és 2004-ben egy kísérlet során vizsgálták az IKT terjedésének hatásait egy kis faluban, Cserénfán. Számítógépeket és internet-hozzáférést biztosítottak kiválasztott helyi családok számára, azt vizsgálva, hogy milyen előnyei és hátrányai vannak az információs technológia intézményi és kapcsolatháló-alapú terjedésének. Mivel a faluban működött teleház, ennek forgalmát kívánták összevetni a baráti-szomszédsági hozzáférés gyakoriságával és természetével. Vizsgálták továbbá az IKT terjedésének a település lakosságának életkörülményeire közvetve gyakorolt társadalmi hatásait is, a közérzetüket jelző indikátorok alapján. 2005 októberében visszatértek a faluba és interjúk segítségével felmérték alanyaik életének és az internetről alkotott véleményének alakulását az eltelt idő alatt.
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