Egy érem két oldala
Two sides of one coin

Social network of commuter and their families

Summary/Abstract: People around a person have important roles of the social integration and form of quality of life. Changes in the life circumstances like getting a job or changes of the workplaces have significant effect to egocentric social network. In a new workplace usually shape new relationships. Then again, it is also possible that besides increasing of number of new contacts, there will be those, which are drop out from the personal network. Paper shows the rearrange of the personal social network of people who works as a commuter and theirs partnerships. Commuter is a person who works far from his/her home and he/she goes home weekly or rarely. This topic was examined making interviews in 2019 (N=24). On the one hand, these interviews revealed a wide and confidant family and kin networks. On the other hand, it seems that, due to the workplaces and the common activities at the workplaces and other places (accommodation, shopping etc.), commuter can make new, long-term and confidant friendships which complete his/her family relationships and make their social capital stronger.

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