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Who could be a role model for the teenagers? Whose attitude, outer and inner values appear to the teenagers as an example to be followed? Has the media and media usage an impact on this? How can this be identified? We wanted to find out whether the pupils from our region have role models, if so, who their icons and role models are, who the ones are that have an exemplary behaviour in their eyes, to whom they would like to compare themselves when they grow up. Have the age, the gender, and residence of the pupils any influence on the choice of role model?Have a place among the teenagers’ role models the professional sportsmen? Who are those sportsmen (and which sports), for which the students are enthusiastic about? The football and footballers what role do they “play”? The paper aims to present the role model question among teenagers. The analysis is based on two important surveys conducted among Hungarian teenagers from Szeklerland, Romania (Covasna, Harghita and Mureş counties). The surveys took place in 2012 and 2014. More than two thousand of pupils in the 7th and 11th grades were involved. Can we conclude that the new media brought along the new idols?The media has definitely a strong impact on the young people’s, children’ lives, on their world-perception – can this be identified even here, regarding the role models? What kind of new possibility, new chance or new challenge have the parents, pedagogues, teachers, local communities?
Keywords: role model; media usage; media star; value; content analysis; football
The present paper analyses the motivations behind the complex vocational choices of higher education students of Cluj and the role of the students’ perceptions of the set of competences provided by the educational programmes. The research questions are the following: to what extent is the choice for a certain programme is being shaped by social background and ethnicity; is there such a tendency that in their choices students of lower social background are guided towards degrees easily marketable on the labour market, as a more cost efficient solution? The motivations behind vocational choices reflect educational aspirations, but we analyse whether these are based on professional interests or rather on cost-benefit calculations. The latter implies an expectation that certain degrees are readily and easily ‘transferrable’ to employment related income. At the same time we were interested in understanding how motivations are shaped by ethnicity and the language of education. Do the perceptions of the competences provided by high school and higher education programmes have a class-specific or other, sociologically relevant character, or are they related in any form to the motivations behind vocational choices? The empirical base of the research is provided by an on-line survey that was carried out in June 2015 among universities of Cluj on a sample of 3,732 students.
Keywords: higher education students; vocational choices; educational motivations; school competences; ethnicity
The present paper focuses on the empirical researches related to the ethnical Hungarian Youth population from Transylvania, Romania with the aim of giving an overview based on the literature of the domain. As a result of our desktop research we build a database which collects the main characteristics of a number of 70 empirical researches.
The study first sketches the context of the formation and evolution of the field of the youth researches in Romania, then shortly presents the institutes in the field of ethnical Hungarian youth research from Romania. The next step analyses the distribution of research topics and methods. Finally, a timeline shows the most of the previously presented researches giving an overview of the researches and their topics.
Keywords: youth research in Romania; Hungarian youth in Romania; chronology; empirical research
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