Series:Sapientia Könyvek

CRIME GENRES AND THE MODERN-POSTMODERN TURN: CANONS, GENDER, MEDIA

CRIME GENRES AND THE MODERN-POSTMODERN TURN: CANONS, GENDER, MEDIA

Author(s): Andrea Virginás / Language(s): English

The grand narrative of the turn from the modern to the postmodern has profoundly shaped Anglo-American thought on art history, literary and film history in the last three decades. The identification of postmodern qualities - contrasted with the canonized modern features - has set the agenda for Ihab Hassan, Fredric Jameson, Brian McHale or even Arthur C. Danto, to name but a few critics. Postmodernism has often been seen as the process whereby modernist high artistic and mass cultural practices are being analyzed, mimicked, and ironized, thus becoming the material of self-conscious artistic preoccupations in different media.

A Cognitive Approach to Metaphorical Expressions

A Cognitive Approach to Metaphorical Expressions

Author(s): Attila Imre / Language(s): English

The present book tries to offer an insight regarding metaphorical expressions containing the following prepositions or verbal prefixes:over, through, above, across in English, prin, peste in Romanian and át,keresztül, felett, felül in Hungarian. the study constitutes the Ph.D.dissertation of the author, and the corpus is based on recent and representative dictionaries of the three languages involved: the shorter oxford English Dictionary, Dicţionarul explicativ al limbii române (the Romanian explanatory Dictionary) and A magyar nyelv értelmezőszótára (the Hungarian explanatory Dictionary).

AN INTRODUCTION TO LEXICAL SEMANTICS FOR STUDENTS OF TRANSLATION STUDIES

AN INTRODUCTION TO LEXICAL SEMANTICS FOR STUDENTS OF TRANSLATION STUDIES

Author(s): Imola Katalin Nagy / Language(s): English

The volume entitled An introduction to lexical semantics for students of translation studies aims to help students and translators understand the role and importance of semantics within the wider system of linguistics and to help them fully meet the requirements of the programme in the subject. The book is intended for English-language students taking the course of contemporary English language. However, An introduction to lexical semantics for students of translation studies may also be of interest to those who would like to gain some information about the resources of the Modern English lexicon and about the complex nature of meaning.

The transformation of the cultural institutions of the Hungarians living in Transylvania 1944–1948

Transformări instituţionale în viaţa culturală maghiară din Transilvania în perioada 1944–1948

Author(s): János Kristóf Murádin / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Transylvania; institutions; post-war period; theatrical life; education; university

The book entitled “The transformation of the cultural institutions of the Hungarians living in Transylvania 1944–1948” is a PhD-thesis, which tries to make a synthesis of the Hungarian cultural institutions of Transylvania in the. The introductive chapter treats the main objectives of the book, the sources used and the research methodology, followed by a short description of each of the five chapters dedicated to the different fields of culture. Essentially, we can perceive cultural life as a body built up of two major fields: artistic and scientific life. Therefore, this book is structured in such a way as to correspond to this division. The first three chapters deal with the different fields of artistic life, while the last two chapters introduce scientific activities. The first chapter describes in detail the Hungarian theatrical life of Transylvania, and focuses on the presentation of the eight Hungarian theatres based in Cluj, Oradea, Baia Mare, Satu Mare, Tîrgu Mureş, Sfântu Gheorghe, Arad and Timişoara, existing in the period referred to, or established in the following years. The second chapter presents the different Hungarian plastic art societies and institutions of Transylvania, and the local artistic educational institutions of Transylvania in Hungarian teaching language. The third chapter covers on the one hand the Hungarian literary life of Transylvania, on the other hand it is a review of the Hungarian publishing and press of Transylvania in the period referred to. The fourth chapter of the book describes the issues connected to the Hungarian university in Transylvania, dealing with the institutional transformations of the Hungarian university of Cluj starting with the last academic year 1943/1944, during the Second World War, and getting through to the transformation of the “Bolyai” University following the issuance of the law on educational reform on 3 August 1948.Finally, the last chapter gives a comprehensive review of the four Hungarian cultural-scientific institutions in Transylvania, existing in this period: the Transylvanian Museum Society, the Hungarian Cultural Society of Transylvania, the Hungarian Economical Society of Transylvania and the Transylvanian Carpathia Society. The book ends with conclusions and a large bibliography connected to the theme. The attachments composed by a chronology and some unpublished documents and archive photos helps the reader to perceive the theme.

Marin Sorescu. Theater poetry and poetic theater

Marin Sorescu. Poezia teatrului şi teatralitatea poeticului

Author(s): Stefania Maria Custură / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Marin Sorescu; drama

Marin Sorescu’s drama of expressionistic origin is one the word spoken by the character bases its significances in a space of maximum symbolic value, merging with a semiotic of movement, that became in Sorescu a semiotic of rising. The character turns into sign, he becomes an energy of the poetic drama. His gestures convert themselves, through repetition, in ritual. What gives the profound poetic character to Marin Sorescu’s drama is the specter of death that hovers above all his characters. Each, in its turn, tries to convey meaning to death, re-interpreted by the author as a metaphor of the last solution to gain access to the Absolute. The Exit is imagined by the author as ascension, he offers as many suggestions of the crucifying defined as ascension. We will make it to the light, says Jonah. And look, I step down… and glide up, says the Sexton. Irina raises her baby above her head, to protect him from the killing waters, screaming to him: Breathe, and Tepes climbs into the third prick saying: To the climbing. To the apotheosis. Emanating a large dosis of unrest, a true philosophy of existence manual, Marin Sorescu’s drama waits patiently for its literary critics and interpreters, to be replaced in its bed.

The Rites of Wishes – Strategies of Rites. The Psychic Background of Customs Related to Birth, Marriage, and Death

A vágy rítusai – rítusstratégiák. A születés, házasság, halál szokásvilágának lelki hátteréről

Author(s): Lajos Balázs / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: rites;wishes;birth;marriage;death;passage; life course transition

The psychic background of customs related to birth, marriage, and death attempts to approach rites of passage from a different point of view. As the title suggests, changes in social array cannot be interpreted as mere social phenomena. Life course transition points such as birth, marriage or death are preceded by relatively slow biological, psychological and spiritual processes, as well as by the process of social puberty. The writing posits that theories which regard customs only as changes in social array narrow or even exclude what latently influences the individual's everyday life. Earlier research on customs, including Arnold van Gennep's theory on rites, did not focus on the psychological, spiritual background of the transition points of human life, on the psychological motivations of rites and on their real humaneness. What these works concentrated on was mainly the organization, the "screen-script" of customs, mostly the visible aspects. As Zoltan Fejos points out, Gennep "lays stress on the changes in people's social array, thus he focuses on passage". Based on Gennep's theory on rites, our work makes an attempt to provide a more exhaustive analysis of rites, trying to interpret the antecedents (which are much earlier and more complex than they are presented in Gennep's theory), the later consequences and the sub-rites that can be identified within customs and rites of passage. Rites of passage are highlighted upon from the standpoint of desire and hope - the desire for leaving an old status and the hope to successfully pass and integrate into another. The book does not reject earlier classifications, but it provides an approach which tries to find universally human motivations that are underlying the socially, culturally and anthropologically based functionality of rites of passage. After a parallel and alternative presentation and analysis of birth, marriage and death, specific types of rites are identified and separated, which accompany the great periods of life course transitions such as rites of approach, bewitchment, release, purification or desire-breaking rites, etc. The book deals with the specific language and instruments of traditional customs - rites, rituals, symbols, signs with symbolic interpretations, superstitions - all being regarded as carriers of desire and hope, which, by means of their content and formal expression often bind the traditional rites of passage of Csikszentdomokos with the world, and, at the same time, separate them from the world, as they are local and specific - thus proving not only the universal cultural continuity of a community, but also its adaptation, individuality, its specific view on world and life. The author does not set as target to answer questions like who the customs, the rites or the superstitions of a Szeklo-Hungarian were borrowed from, who they have been transmitted to or who this culture has had influence on, but it tries to highlight the way the community experiences the great life course transition points with reflexes that comprise both universally human thoughts, sentiments, actions and local peculiarities. In other words, it looks for contact-points between universal, mythical and ceremonial systems, ranges of sentiments and symbols on the one hand; on the other hand, it tries to identify analogies between image and meanings on a microcosmic level. The writing also focuses on parallelisms and (sometimes shocking) similarities, which are pointed out in the footnotes.

Film. Picture. Language

Film. Kép. Nyelv

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: film;picture;language;medium;

New Media and Society. Researches in the Hungarian Environment

New Media and Society. Researches in the Hungarian Environment

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Keywords: new media; information society; Hungarian environment

What are the specific challenges and opportunities of the information society? The increasing use of information technology influences various aspects of our lives: the problem of accessing information is replaced gradually by challenges regarding how to select and organize relevant information; alternative opportunities of self-affirmation or nurturing the social relationships are offered by ICT; the “normal” educational routines of parents and teachers are challenged, and there are controversial questions around copyright issues as well.Theoretical considerations and experimental data resulting from research of the Hungarian cultural environment (in Hungary and in the Hungarian-inhabited regions of Romania) are explored in the present book, in accordance with papers presented at ”New Media – Mobile Age” conference (organized in march 2016 in Tîrgu Mureș, Romania). The published studies and research data are of interest for comparisons with international research results, and for outlining further development strategies and policies.

Local Environmental Problems and Answers in Hungary and Romania

Local Environmental Problems and Answers in Hungary and Romania

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Keywords: local self-governments;Hungary;Romania;eco-villages;smart cities;environment protection practices;

The following volume of essays is a result of the research that was done from autumn 2015 until spring 2018 by an eleven-person research group of the Faculty of Law, University of Debrecen, who tried to look into what role local self-governments in Hungary had played in shaping environmental policy and environmental law. Further, it is a result of the partnership between the Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Cluj-Napoca of Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania and the Faculty of Law of the University of Debrecen. However, because of the complexity of the topic, besides the legal approach, it also includes other approaches and modes of interpretation, beginning with ecological aspects through public policy to a sociological approach and interpretation, while mixed research methods are used at the same time. Beyond classic legal methods such as legislative analysis, a questionnaire research among 516 local governments, different focus-group interviews have been used, and fieldwork among 10 local governments was carried out. These essays are meant for those who are interested in the issues of eco-villages, smart cities, ecosystem services, environment protection practices, and environmental policy instruments or who are trying to obtain appropriate answers for the problems of integrating agricultural production and biodiversity, the general questions of waste management in Hungary and Romania, and the responsibility of local authorities.

Studies on Imagology

IMAGOLÓGIAI OLVASÓKÖNYV

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: imagology; the other; identity; mental image about the other and the self; communist censorship; Balkanism;

To confront with the other is the indispensable condition of the formation of one’s identity. This is also the case with groups; each community defines itself against the foreign. Imagology deals with the scientific research of mental images formed about the other and the self. The volume includes theoretical studies and case studies on the theoretical-historical approach of this interdisciplinary domain. Zsuzsa Tapodi’s general survey is supplemented by Joep Leerssen’s study from the perspective of the history of literature and mentality as well as by Sorin Mitu’s article from the perspective of history. Discussing Balkanism in connection with George Enescu’s opera, Dan Anghelescu’s analysis in the field of aesthetics sets against the terms the Balkans and Balkanism used as negative stereotypes. This is a positive characteristic, the container of those features which make the Romanian composer’s works unique and which can convey the Nietzschean concept of tragedy. Through the analysis of the edition in Romania of Áron Tamási’s autobiographical volume, Árpád Kémenes’s study argues that in the case of Hungarian authors the communist censorship banned not only the fragments showing a negative image of the Romanians, but also those reinforcing the Hungarians’ identity. Sorin Mitu’s study analyses the Hungarians’ image about the Romanians and the Romanians’ image about the Hungarians; Axel Braner follows the changes of German writers’ image about the Romanians. Zsuzsa Tapodi presents two books related to imagology, on xenophobia, by the Italian belletrist and theoretician Umberto Eco.

Romanian–Hungarian Cultural Parallelisms

INTERFERENŢE CULTURALE ROMÂNO-MAGHIARE

Author(s): Imola Katalin Nagy / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: literary and cultural paraellisms; intercultural communication; inter-war period; Transylvanianism; Romanian and the Hungarian cultural discourse;

This volume focuses on the problem of literary and cultural paraellisms between the Romanian and the Hungarian cultural and literary phenomena. Beyond some general aspects related to the topic, the first part is dedicated to the problem of intercultural communication between the Romanian and the Hungarian cultural milieu in the inter-war period, with a special emphasis on the issue of Transylvanianism. We try to identify the reasons for which this ideology failed to become one of the main facilitators of open communication between the Romanian and the Hungarian cultures. We also hint at some contemporary echoes of Transylvanianism and the changes that have occurred over the past few decades. We wanted to make a presentation of the main regional ideologies of the Transylvanian cultural and spiritual life in the inter-war period. The Hungarians’ Transylvanianism and the Romanians’ creative localism or ardelenism alike offered a wide range of key concepts and ideas that shaped/and were shaped by the cultural context of the time. Both regionalisms – Romanian and Hungarian – shared many of these concepts and ideas, although they had never really sustained an open and efficient communication, due to a series of causes. The shifts that occurred in the self-defining strategies, the communication breakdowns that characterized the relationships between the two cultural milieus and intellectual circles, the identity discourses that can be spotted in the media of that time, and the movement known as Transylvanianism are all approached with the purpose of identifying the causes that hindered (and perhaps still hinder) real and efficient communication between Romanians and Hungarians. We also attempt to offer an overview of the effects of the cultural and spiritual flourishing that marked the turn-of-the-century Vienna on the Romanian and the Hungarian cultural discourse. We focus on the most important phenomena that the Romanian and the Hungarian cultural discourses borrowed from the Viennese modernity at the turn of the century. Among these, one can cite the types of writers, literary topics (such as the theme of the Family, of strong women, the emergence of the human psyche in literature, the figure of the estranged, etc.). The second part of the volume is dedicated to the most important thematic parallelisms between the Hungarian and the Romanian prose writings, by analysing topics and/or motives like war, womanhood, wealth, freedom and the symbolism of the mountain, etc.

Performativity of Artworks Created in Nature

A természetben létrehozott művészi alkotások performativitása

Author(s): Andrea Căbuz / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: art theory discourse; performativity; contemporary art;artworks; man-made interventions;

The art theory discourse is in lack of terminology regarding the analysis ofconnections and interactions between nature and contemporary art – especiallyartworks that are in connection or are created in a natural environment. Theaim of this book is to introduce and define starting points and terminology inthe analysis of man-made interventions in natural environments that have someaesthetic value and artistic intentions. These terms are interdisciplinary and areused mostly in the realm between theatre and visual arts. I argue for exampleterms like: performativity, performative space, viewer, site-specific, aura, atmosphere,etc. The dimensions of the research do not allow a large number ofartworks to be discussed. Therefore, it can only include specifically illustratedand underlined subjects.

The Relationship between Overweight, Obesity, and Nutrition

A túlsúly, az elhízás és a táplálkozás kapcsolata

Author(s): János Csapó,Csilla Albert / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: obesity; eating habits; dietary composition; energy intake; body weight;

In our age, in the more developed part of our world, food is available to people with virtually unlimited access, as a result of which obesity has become a global problem, an epidemic that is increasingly threatening humanity. Obesity is significantly influenced not only by human genetics but also by eating habits, dietary composition, energy intake, which provides an opportunity to develop strategies to control body weight and obese people to achieve significant weight loss.We hope that with our book we can draw attention to the fact that obesity is a public disease and that much more should be expended to sacrifice for pre-obesity education, treatment of obesity, and healing of sick people. These “sacrifices” would not only serve the interests of the individual but would also bring significant benefits to the national economy, as less costs would be needed to spend to heal sick people, and they would be able to do their beneficial work in everyday life for longer.

Employment Strategies in Harghita County

Foglalkoztatási stratégiák Hargita megyében

Author(s): Gyöngyvér Bálint / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: labour market; medium-sized private enterprises; recruiting employees;

In the last half of century, several researches prove that social networks play an important role in the transfer of job information on the labour market. The major part of the researches focuses on the employees, and the linked, employer-employee type data sets in the specific literature are conspicuously rare and unique. This paper aims to seize the characteristics of employment strategies, based on three case studies. The location of the research is Harghita County; all the three case studies were performed on medium-sized private enterprises which perform industrial activities characteristic to the county (construction, confection and lumber industry). Data obtained by the methods of semi-structured deep interview, questionnaires and document analysis were processed by organizations, therefore the reduced number of cases did not allow for a deeper statistical data processing. Based on international and regional researches, we set up three major hypotheses about the spread of informal recruitment and job search strategies. The hypothesis has been sustained considering all three enterprises from the employee’s point of view: regarding the informal job search strategies versus formal strategies, the informal methods are more frequent. In our case, analysing the three enterprises the rate lays between 54–77%, which means higher than the other measured quotas (27–64%). The employer’s side sustained the hypothesis in two companies. The frequent use of informal recruitment channels is motivated by the quality of these applicants. The use of the informal channels in recruitment in the case of two companies (construction and lumber industries), is motivated by the utmost large social networks of the employer. This also justifies the fact that these companies practice a passive recruitment. Since the important professional relationship networks at the textile enterprise seem to be significant, the main difference in the recruitment practice at the organization is not totally justified by the extent of the relationship capital. Although it cannot be shown directly from the research, the active or passive recruitment is also stated by the incomes, job security and the personality of employers. Within the informal channels, all three enterprises emphasize the strength of the weak ties. In finding a job or in recruiting employees, the professional relationships play the most important role, but employee referrals are not the most frequent informal recruitment methods.

Mother Tongue Education ─ Linguistic Horizons

Anyanyelvoktatás ─ Nyelvi horizontok

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: mother tongue education; reading comprehension; Hungarian students in Transylvania; educational policy;

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book presents the results of the national survey regarding the level of students' reading comprehension in the period of 2009─2010. The volume provides a realistic picture based on empirical data with regard to text reading and comprehension skills of Hungarian students in Transylvania, making it useful not only for teachers of Hungarian language and literature but also for experts in elaborating a more efficient educational policy.

Metacognitive Strategies ─ Components and Measurement

METAKOGNITÍV STRATÉGIÁK ─ ÖSSZETEVŐIK ÉS MÉRÉSÜK

Author(s): István Zsigmond / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: metacognitive strategies; metamemory processes; problem-solving processes; declarative knowledge; conditional knowledge; procedural knowledge; QMSR;

Researching metacognitive strategies has become important for scientists since Flawell (1971) argued for the crucial role of metamemory processes in the development of memory. The number of scientific publications on metacognition is growing every year. However, some aspects regarding the concept of metacognition are still ambiguous. Main theories regarding metacognitive processes and their complementarity are presented. The elaboration procedure of Integrative Model of Metacognition(IMM) is presented, which is based on the complementarity of former models and their inclusion in theories about problem solving. A principle characteristic of IMM is the possibility to make a clear distinction of metacognitive and cognitive processes, offering an answer to critics regarding the concept of metacognition. The IMM makes apparent that metacognitive strategies are those elements that regulate other problem-solving processes, and a strategy becomes metacognitive when its conditional knowledge-components are connected to situations when we don't understand something. The model incorporates the majority of concepts related to metacognition (metacognitive monitoring and regulation, metamemory, metaknowledge, etc.), and makes possible to include any metacognitive process in problem-solving. The IMM offers a starting point for elaborating measurement instruments of metacognitive processes. It points out what kind of knowledge and procedures are necessary for developing functional metacognitive strategies. When analysing the reading process with the MIM model, we can find out what are the difficulties for learning and utilizing comprehension strategies. We present the process of elaborating the Questionnaire of Metacognitive Strategies in Reading (QMSR), which makes possible evaluating the knowledge-components of four basic reading comprehension strategies: resuming, selecting important information, addressing questions and re-reading. QMSR measures the following aspects of these strategies: declarative knowledge necessary for utilizing these strategies and conditional knowledge ─ when and why to utilize these strategies, and procedural knowledge ─ the ability of utilizing the strategies. We administered the QMSR to three groups of children (504 pupils in total):third grade (N = 243), fourth grade (N = 189) and seventh grade (N = 72) from 10 schools. According to statistical analysis reliability, content and constructive validity of QMSR are acceptable. Predictive validity could not be calculated because lack of acceptable criteria. When utilizing alternative criteria we have found acceptable predictive validity of QMSR.

SCHOOLMASTERS. CAREERS AND LIFE STORIES

NÉPTANÍTÓK. ÉLETPÁLYÁK ÉS ÉLETTÖRTÉNETEK

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: Hungarian fiction; rural teacher; 20th century; social minority;

This volume presents the image of the country teacher as reflected in the Hungarian fiction throughout the 20th century. In the early decades of the century, minority teachers undergo a process of marginalization, but, at the same time engaging in a heroic battle involving efforts to serve the social minority, contemporary fiction presents this type of hero in a mythical context. However, following World War II, the new regime does everything in its power to integrate the pedagogues in the new political-communist structures. As a result, the type of the rural teacher gradually disappears from the works of fiction.

THE METAMORPHOSIS OF MOTHER-TONGUE EDUCATION

AZ ANYANYELVOKTATÁS METAMORFÓZISA

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: mother-tongue education; ability to express oneself; Hungarian schools in Romania; adolescents' identity construction; career choices; value orientation;

Based on empirical studies, the volume comprises four studies related to mother-tongue education: shaping the ability to express oneself in writing among students in Hungarian schools in Romania; positive and negative identification of pupils with fairy tale characters; the process of adolescents' identity construction based on written self-characterization; 9th graders' career choices and value orientation.

The Change of Property in Romania's Transition Process

A TULAJDONVÁLTÁS FOLYAMATA ROMÁNIA GAZDASÁGI ÁTALAKULÁSÁBAN

Author(s): Árpád Szabó / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: change of property; economic transition; Central and Eastern European countries; NATO; European Union; privatization of agriculture;

Beginning with the middle of the XX. century, the majority of the Central and East European population has lived most of its life subjected to the experiments of a political, economical and social environment ─ which finally proved itself to be totally unsuccessful. Subsequent to World War II, the Central and Eastern European countries got under the influence of the Soviet Union and were compelled to live and coexist with that system. The system itself bore a different name in almost every country, but there were, nevertheless, some mutually characteristic features. The socialist system collapsed between 1989 and 1991. Many things have changed ever since. During the last two decades most of the countries in the region have become members of the NATO, and the European Union. From political point of view, there is political partition with due and democratically elected parliaments and governments. When choosing my research subject, I have chosen to look into the Romanian process of change of property, focusing on the process of privatization. Though only a few, in comparison with the other Central and Eastern European countries, but there have already been elaborated comprehensive studies [Earle-Sapatoru, 1993; Earle-Telegdy, 1998; Negrescu, 2000; Telegdy, 2001]. Therefore, I am not going to analyse in detail the process itself. My book consists of three major units. I define the basic terms and I present the hypotheses of the research in the first part of the first unit. In the second part of the first unit I make an overview of the international literature dealing with the economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe, and especially with the early premises of privatization. The second unit compares the features of transition in Romania and Hungary, the two countries being part of the same region. The third unit of the book deals with the privatization of agriculture and consists of three chapters. These chapters describe the impact of privatization on the land-structure, the agricultural machinery and the agricultural production. The research of the privatization in agriculture was financed by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and it was a part of a larger strategic research programme called "The privatization of Agriculture in Transylvania". I have done my part of research together with students both from the Babeș─BolyaiUniversity of Cluj and Sapientia University. The book is concluded with the due findings of my research followed by the list of references.

Profession or Vocation? The Status Group of Hungarian University Teachers in Cluj-Napoca

Szakma vagy hivatás? A kolozsvári magyar egyetemi oktatók státuscsoportja

Author(s): Gyöngyvér Erika Tőkés / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: social stratification; social mobility; Hungarian university lecturers; social environment; status acquisition;

The subject of the book is the social stratification and mobility of the Hungarian university lecturers from Cluj. In the first chapter, we present the theoretical support which provides the basis of our analysis, in the second chapter we present the social environment in which the researched group may be included while the third chapter refers to the stratification and mobility characteristics of the target group in the mirror of the empirical data obtained from the survey carried out in 2002 and the interviews made in 2005. The Hungarian university lecturers from Cluj form a status group that is part of the Romanian middle class. However, this is not a homogenous group but rather a stratum differentiated according to the analysed stratification dimensions (material situation, consumption habits, the habits concerning the cultural consumption, the position of power, social relationships). Generally, the social changes generated by the change of regime had a favourable influence on the Hungarian university lecturers from Cluj, the group being characterized by a strong ascending social mobility and social reproduction. Regarding the process of status acquisition, personal performances and the structural situation play a more important role than the origin, and the older the person gets, the less important the performance and the origin become.