The study summarize the results of a micro-area elite research (2002-2006, “Homokhat” 4 villages and Mórahalom town). The database is provided by narrative life-stories, which structural compilation potential is presented in an earlier theoretical and methodological monograph (Narratív történetformák…, 1. edition 2007, 2. edition 2009.). In the present study, therefore, is a partial summary of the attempt-application, which along the ridge of the classical elite-theories, but gearing the narrative aspects of interpretative contextualist view, tries to rethink the relationship between experience and theory. In the opinion of the author the types of the capital, the conversion of the elite, the elite formation, the selection, circulation concept-theory, the phenomena of projection which gained ground in the sociological theories of transition in the study of spatial structure of local society - but it seems neither at the macro level - do not have the significance attached to them. The author bring all these in correlation with the context of the market system imported after ‘89 and therefore not adapted, which influenced the saving of previous elite, with other words the changing of the configuration of “old-new” elite, the course of the formation of the elite.
Imre Pászka dr. habil, Associate Professor, „Master Professor”, University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts, Department of Sociology.

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This article observes the services of the Romanian Orthodox Church in times of crises, in this case applying the orthodox healing techniques within the roman- catholic communities in Moldova. Interpreting this phenomenon we’ll have a broader insight on the social-cultural context in Moldova as the ties between Catholicism and Orthodoxy, community and religious practices or individuals and community are revealed. The method will be an ethnological-anthropological one localized in Luizi-Calugara a village in Bacau County. The article pursues the connection between everyday life and the way catholic religious practices blend in with orthodox healing rituals. Religious customs as a functional whole will gain strength or would weaken depending on the life situation the individual is facing. This usage of the functional religious perspectives reveals the coded adaptation tactics in the cultural system of Moldovan csangos.
Veronika Lajos, ethnographer, MTA DE Ethnographic Research Group – research assistant, (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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Based on a comparative research of three age cohorts, the study is dealing with the changing conditions of hiring and labor market success of Hungarian college graduates in Transylvania. It highlights the role of structural effects in the career potential of professionals with different social background, the differences between rural and urban career paths and finally, the changing career plans of the graduates for the future. The analysis is based on interviews and focus group discussions. The results show that the transformations which have taken place in the career habit of the graduates are socially differentiated; the graduate job market is highly segmented in a rural-urban context and, for the future, the willingness to migrate abroad is decreasing.
Zsombor Csata şi Dénes Kiss teaching assistant at Babeş Bolyai University, Department of Sociology (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Botond Dániel sociologist, master's student (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Emese Ruszuly sociologist, project manager at KleffmanGroup (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Zsuzsa Sólyom sociologist , economist, researcher at The Romanian Institute For Research On National Minorities (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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This paper presents the first results of a research effectuated among a “virtual community”. The author formulate a current social questions: how does affect the identity and personal image-construction a completely new, previously unknown communication platform, namely the self-presentation on a popular social network site. Lunches the idea of a a new kind of identity, starts the thought of discovering the characteristics of the "virtual self". As a result, the study aims to analyze a social network site, based on the analyze on the profile pages of a representative group of the iWiW-users in a small town from Transylvania.. The analysis of the user’s profile pages will result the socio-demographic description of the iWiW-users from Miercurea Ciuc
The author is assistant professor at the Sapientia – Hungarian University from Transylvania, Department of Social Science, e-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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