Vannak-e fiatalok?
Are there young ones?

Summary/Abstract: Peter Tibor Nagy offers two competitive hypotheses: 1) The values of young (aged 18–30) people differ from the average of society, as persons in their 30s and 40s are like the average but not like the youngest generation. 2) They differ from the average, but they are similar to the next generation (i. e. people just a little older). Thus the dividing line is not between the young and middle-aged generations, but between the middle-aged and older ones, or somewhere within the middle-aged one. If the second hypothesis true: “the young” as a real social category does not exist. Data relating to the sociology of religion – based on several different databases – shows that the second hypothesis more reliable than the first one.

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