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The transition from a planned to a market economy had hardly begun in Hungary when sociologists and other social scientists sensitive to social ills began to voice their fears of and hopes for the effects of the economic transformation. A number of more or less amorphous or malleable new phrases have cropped up both in jargon of sociological discourse and in common speech, all denoting supposed or real social problems. In the course of this chapter I will discuss some of these.
This chapter was written in 1991, but the main trends associated with the growth of the private sector have changed little since, as witnessed by more recent data added in the spring 1994. It was first published in Szociológiai Szemle, in 1994.
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Laky, T. (1997). Characteristics of Privatization in Hungary and Some of its Social Effects. In: Lorentzen, A., Rostgaard, M. (eds) The Aftermath of ‘Real Existing Socialism’ in Eastern Europe. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25747-8_5
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