Populist discursive strategies under state socialism: the demographic debates
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Populists participated in demographic debates during Hungary's socialist era despite the state's restriction of the public sphere. The relative autonomy enjoyed by the theme of population as compared with other public themes and the adoption of certain strategies enabled this. Populists exploited the common points between populism and socialist ideology to obliquely critique the government and imply that it was indirectly responsible for low birth rates. Populist discourse used the method of paradox argumentation. Another populist rhetorical strategy was to connect particularity and generality.
Publication Name: Journal of Popular Culture
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-3840
Year: 1995
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The writing on the wall: the messages in Hungarian graffiti
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An analysis of graffiti in the Hungarian city of Szeged by college-going Hungarian women reveals the ambiguities and contradictions of Hungarian society. Some graffiti indicates social problems and conveys political messages but most graffiti shows the increasing influence of Western capitalist societies on Hungarian youth. Before the political changes in Hungary in 1989, graffiti was written mainly by the Hungarian intelligentsia to vent their subversive thoughts and get around strict censorship. Hungarian graffiti of the 1990s is written by diverse economic, political, and social groups.
Publication Name: Journal of Popular Culture
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-3840
Year: 1995
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Discontinuous history - deformed society
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Hungary's discontinuous history has deformed the Hungarians' political character and social evolution. Frequent social upheavals and rapid changes of system in Hungary in the 20th century have made Hungarians cultivate indifference to politics as a strategy of survival. They can also lack self-knowledge and the capacity to accept criticism. They have developed the habit of transferring blame and have become too adaptable. The need for stabilization caused by too many turning points in history has produced an unstable middle class and an inferior political elite.
Publication Name: Journal of Popular Culture
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-3840
Year: 1995
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