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Contents

Tabula gratulatoria

Nicole Mathieu: Imre Kovách - European ruralities in confrontation
Krisztián Orbán: Laudation of Professor Imre Kovách on his seventieth birthday
Bernadett Csurgó - Nicole Mathieu - Boldizsár Megyesi: Editorial. Foreword of the editors

I Historical perspectives

Leo Granberg: From peasants to ecosystem gardeners. Transformations in rural Europe
Csaba Dupcsik: Perceptions of the peasantry in the last century of the Hungarian social sciences
Tibor Valuch: Labour coercion in Hungary before, under and after communism
Judit Takács - Tamás P. Tóth: Disintegration and social exclusion. Gay life under state-socialism in Hungary
Ágnes Tóth: "The most important thing we can do for our nationality today" Some issues of personal amends for the Germans in Hungary (1989-1992)

II Social integration, and social stratification

Luca Kristóf: Elite change and division. Pathways to the Hungarian cultural elite before and after 2010
Ferenc Bódi - Mátyás Bódi: Where are the voters? Three decades into a silent democracy
Ákos Huszár - Andrea Szabó: Party preference and subjective social mobility
Márton Gerő - Gábor Hajdu: Political polarization ad political cleavages in the Hungarian society
Ibolya Czibere: Do settlement forms determine family forms in Hungary? Characteristics of family structure in urban and rural households
Éva Huszti - Fruzsina Albert - Adrienne Csizmady - Ilona Nagy - Beáta Dávid: When spatial dimension matters. Comparing personal network characteristics in different segregated areas
Karolina Balogh - Ágnes Győri: The spatial pattern of educational attainment in Hungary
Attila Papp Z. - Csilla Zsigmond - Eszter Kovács: Migration intentions in Hungary during the fourth wave of COVID-19

III Rural society

Vera Majerova: Rural sociology in practice. The Czechoslovak countryside and agriculture
Krzysztof Gorlach - Grzegorz Foryś - Anna Jastrzębiec-Witowska - David Ritter: On sustainable development once again. Development as movement
Katalin Kovács: The rise and fall of the project class in Central Europe. The Hungarian case. An essay dedicated to Imre Kovách
Giorgio Osti: Still the century of (rural) corporatism? Trends in Italian marginal areas
Peter Ehrström: Rurban transformation - with or without gentrification. Visualizing degrees of change within eight core variables
Bernadett Csurgó - Boldizsár Megyesi: Imagined differences. A quantitative study of rural and urban communities and social relations
Silvia Sivini: Agricultural regeneration in Italy
Willem Korthals Altes: Quality of government, land and rural development
Lehel Peti: Changes in rural farming in a Transylvanian settlement
Christian Barika Igbeghe - Péter Balogh - Attila Bai: Food, feed and fuel. The place of biomass in a sustainable bioeconomy
Iva Pires: Sixty years of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the challenges ahead to create a healthy food system for people and planet
Karl Bruckmeier: Rural societies in the twenty-first century. Interdisciplinary perspectives
Notes on contributors

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