Politikai nézetek és reputáció az értelmiségi elitben
Political Views and Reputation in the Intellectual Elite

Summary/Abstract: In the paper the interrelationships of the political views and reputation of the intellectuals participating in public life are analysed with the help of data of an elite survey by questionnaire. A markedly formulated political opinion, usually characteristic of the intellectual elite manifests itself dominantly as either leftist views of as a characteristic right-wing minority. The attitudes of the two groups of the elite differ not only in their relationship to religion and to socialism, but also from the angle of contacts kept with other elite segments such as the political and the economic ones. In addition to professional achievement self-determination of leftism or right-wing views is also part of respect emerging within the intellectual elite, but the hierarchy of the reputation of the two intellectual milieus differs from each other. In the leftist milieu having a more active intellectual discourse the internal mechanisms developing reputation operate far more successfully resulting in the fact that the respect of the greatest leftist stars spreads over the milieu and affects the entire Hungarian intellectual life. The right-wing group, considered as a minority in the elite is adjusted more closely than the network of relations kept close on the basis of the similarity of political views overarching elite segments. Being strongly embedded and the fact that they are less active in the intellectual discourse in the media hinder the production of an autonomous intellectual reputation in the milieu of the right-wing intellectuals.

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