About the Ethnicity of Members of Slovak Intelligentsia in Hungary -Relations Between the Degree of Ethnic Identity and Ethno-identification Categorie Cover Image

O etnicite príslušníkov slovenskej inteligencie v Maďarsku - relácie medzi stupňom etnickej identity a etnoidentifikačnými kategóriami
About the Ethnicity of Members of Slovak Intelligentsia in Hungary -Relations Between the Degree of Ethnic Identity and Ethno-identification Categorie

Author(s): Mária Homišinová
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Sociologický ústav - Slovenská akadémia vied
Keywords: Ethnicity; intelligentsia; ethnic identity; minority

Summary/Abstract: About the Ethnicity of Members of Slovak Intelligentsia in Hungary -Relations Between the Degree of Ethnic Identity and Ethno-identification Categories. The paper is presenting the partial results of sociological research, realised in 1998 in Hungary, focussed upon the research of status of Slovak intelligentsia living there, with aim to identify the concrete factors of preservation and maintenance of ethnic identity of Slovak minority in Hungary. In particular level the paper is submitting the mode of differentiation of respondents on the base of identification of degree of ethnic identity (low, medium and high degree of identity). As the indicators of determination of degree of ethnic identity were selected the qualitative marks (coefficients) from the sphere of use of Slovak language and culture of Slovak ethnic community. Paper is also interpreting the results of bivariate analysis, focussing upon the detection of relations among then identified degrees of ethnic identity and selected identification categories such as declared adherence to ethnic community and identification of mother tongue.

  • Issue Year: 2000
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 471-481
  • Page Count: 10