Globalization, Localization and Individualization among High School Students in Nyíregyháza

Kovács, Klára and Ludescher, Gabriella and Dusa, Ágnes Réka (2016) Globalization, Localization and Individualization among High School Students in Nyíregyháza. Youth in Central and Eastern Europe. Sociological Studies, 2 (6). pp. 98-117. ISSN 2409-952X

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Abstract

In the first part of our study we examined the attitude of the high school students of Nyíregyháza to international mobility, with special attention to the neighbouring countries and different ethnic groups. In connection with that, we also wished to find out about the relationship of the young people to their own region, how powerful their local consciousness is, and what chances in life they envisage. Their international experience and plans, their bonds to their respective region are examined in interrelation. In the second part of the study we concentrate on the international experience of the students related to crossing the borders: how much they have travelled and for what reasons, would they like to study and/or live abroad, and what factors influence these plans. In part three of the study we examine some of the characteristics of the life of the secondary school students of Nyíregyháza at an individual level: the patterns of their leisure activities, their satisfaction with their own life and well-being. Our survey is based upon the data base of an inventory research conducted among 11th grade (senior high school) students in 2015. Locality and regionality play an important role in the life of these students, but their personal relationships reach beyond the national borders. It is clearly seen from the results that students coming from a higher socio-economic status have had more opportunities to travel abroad. Their free time is dominated by social solitude, whereas their satisfaction with life is largely influenced by their social activities and their subjective social situation.

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