In this paper we analyzed the conflict management strategies most frequently used by couples, and the relationship existing between these strategies and several socio-demographic and family-related factors. For this we used the data from the survey “Turning Points of Our Lives – Transylvania”. According to its results, the choice for either aggressive or assertive conflict management techniques can be explained both by socio-economic status and the subjective perception of living standards. We have found no differences between male and female conflict solving strategies. Those who tend to use aggressive conflict management techniques are less satisfied with their relationship, they are more lonely and feel that they are not being listened to or understood. Concerning the gender roles, those manifesting aggressive behaviour were found to have more traditional views, compared to those with assertive behaviour. Imola Antal is a lecturer at the Social Work Department, BBU (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Júlia Szigeti is a psychologist at the Artemis Centre and a PhD-student at the BBU (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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The paper describes the labour market position of Hungarian women and men aged 21–44 from Transylvania, within the context of gender role values and norms, based on the survey "Turning points of our lives – Transylvania", conducted in 2006. The several forms of gender inequalities on the labour market – occupation and unemployment rates, economic inactivity in its various forms and lengths, occupational segregation and the gender pay gap – have been central to sociological gender analysis in post-socialist societies. Even so, the prognosis formulated at the beginning of the 1990s, according to which women would be placed among the losers of economic restructuring, was seldom tested by Romanian or Transylvanian studies. In the first part of the present article the description of the female labour force is followed by the reconsideration of the ‘high female unemployment rates’-thesis. The first part of the paper ends with the linear regression model which analyses the gender pay gap, trying to explain it using socio-demographic and professional variables. The second part of the article sets out to interpret the traditional value systems that characterize the majority of those questioned.
The traditional gender role definitions equally adopted for the private and the public spheres, correspond to the labour market realities met by both women and men in Transylvania. The author is a sociologist and works as a teaching assistant at the Sociology Department at the BBU, Cluj (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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Using longitudinal data analysis and the results of a survey, this study is dealing with the changes in occupational structure and labour market demand in Transylvania. It highlights a quantitatively relevant picture about the structure of the labour market, employee recruiting procedures, labour force management, professional skills preferred by the employers. The results show a less significant occurrence of part-time work and an unchanged importance of personal networks in recruitment. In the evaluation of the potential employees, employers prefer trait attributes like adaptation and cooperation skills over job-specific instruction and professional experience. Zsombor Csata is a sociologist, a teaching assistant at the Department of Sociology, within BBU (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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The present paper aims at describing the national identity of Hungarians from Transylvania, as it is reflected by the research project entitled “Kárpát Panel 2007”. The analysis focuses on the elements of minority, cultural, national and civic identity. The study was conducted in five countries with a total of 2930 respondents, among which 900 Hungarian individuals in Transylvania. Using a multi-level sampling method, the households were selected probabilistically, and within the household the selection of the respondents was done following several quotas.
The main objective of the research was to identify the elements of the Hungarians’ identity, to describe the role of ethno-cultural nation within the formation of identity and to understand the nature of social and cultural constructions like the ethnic in-group or the Romanian nation. In the second part of the paper the author analyses the symbols that express and reflect ethnic membership. A crucial issue addressed is that of the relationship between one’s socio-demographic characteristics and the nature of his/her national identity. The author is a sociologist, works as an associate professor at the Department of Sociology within BBU (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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