Local Organization of Social Services in Hungary

This book was born in the framework of an international comparative research collaboration, which launched the LOSS project nearly two decades ago from the Catholic University of Ingolstadt (Bavaria) and the University of Louisville (Kentucky). When the Local Organization of Social Services Project was established it had a main aim to build a bridge among different social cultures and social politics which exist in the United States of America, Western Europe and the countries of the democratizing Eastern Europe. The main purpose of the editors was not to show the current Hungarian social and socio-political situation, which situation is transforming, it was rather to give an inspiration to other research teams who create similar monographs about the LOSS in their own countries. This book seemingly does not follow strict editorial rules, although there is an invisible logical line, which runs through and concatenates all the chapters.The intent of the authors,who are each researchers of the subject of the chapters, was to try to synthesize the social phenomena of the near past and some chapters give wider historical perspectives, as well. Essentially, this book is a part of a puzzle, which was deciphered in a way in a post-socialist country but it isnot excluded that there will be other results after the collaboration among the semi-peripheral Northern and Eastern European countries in the next years.

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This book is the result of an international comparative research collaboration which launched the LOSS project nearly two decades ago. The initiative goes in particular back to the Catholic University of Ingolstadt (Bavaria, Germany) and the University of Louisville (Kentucky, United States of America). The Project Local Organization of Social Services was established to build a bridge among different social cultures and social politics which exist in the United States of America, Western Europe and the so-called transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The purpose of the editors is to look at the current Hungarian social and socio-political situation and the transformations in order to inspire other research teams to create similar monographs about the LOSS in their own countries. According to our hope more and more bilateral research collaborations are going to be launched in the near future. For example between Finland and Hungary and Austria and Hungary etc. These international comparative researches could form a bigger network in the Euro-Atlantic region. This book is an important step in the comprehensive process towards the international network. This book seemingly does not follow strict editorial rules, although there is an invisible logical line running through it, and linking all chapters. The intent of the authors, each specialist in the subject areas of their chapter, was to synthesize the social phenomena of the recent past. Some contributions provide also a wider historical perspectives. Essentially, this book is a part of a mosaic which will be deciphered by subsequent work. . This is simply a compilation of the first studies and is to be followed with results of other collaborative research among the semi-peripheral Northern and Eastern European countries in the next years..