Open AccessIdentity, tradition, society. Experiences from the south Hungarian region great plain
Author(s) -
Tibor Szarvák,
Zsolt Szoboszlai
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
zbornik matice srpske za društvene nauke/zbornik matice srpske za društvene nauke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0836
pISSN - 0352-5732
DOI - 10.2298/zmsdn0621457s
Subject(s) - internationalism (politics) , ethnic group , politics , period (music) , socialism , identity (music) , state (computer science) , national identity , sociology , political economy , political science , gender studies , social science , law , aesthetics , philosophy , communism , algorithm , computer science
In the period before the 1990s, models of identity were not allowed if they differed from the expectations of the political authorities (national ethnic, political, religious, socio-cultural etc), so that the issue of identity could not appear in public discourse. From the standpoint of traditional communities, there were some elements which led to significant consequences: state socialism and social practice could not cure the traumas of two world wars, which were additionally burdened by the disintegration of traditional communities existing before the period of state socialism, as well as by the indistinct Hungarian identity, the consequence of a deformed internationalism. All these factors led to the situation in which the majority of the Hungarians did not have established patterns of identity at the beginning of the 1990s, which was, however, of vital importance for the constant changing requests of social environment. During the 1990s and earlier, people carried out mostly sociological and socio-osychological researches to introduce and investigate the main features of national identity