Molnár Mária: Egy Borsod megyei község társadalmi átrétegződése : Borsodgeszt : 1945-1978 (A miskolci Herman Ottó Múzeum néprajzi kiadványai 20. Miskolc, 1965)

remote areas of country to find job. The stratum over the average was forced by political and economic changes to move out. The members and their progeny of this stratum became, nearly without exception, skilled labourers finding occupation in the health care or the sevices. The migration of the youngest generation has a considerably high rate which is determined or oriented by their trade selection. The vast part of the work studies those who have remained in the village. First, it considers the social strata and profession categories. About one third of the inhabitants of the village travels daily to work without having changed residence. 21,2% of the inhabitants works in agriculture and the pensioners give nearly the same percentage (19,7%) who mostly are the pensioners of the cooperative. Determining the individual strata the social positions being determinants in the community have also been considered beside the financial standing. Among them, those professional or political functions have been underlined that are significant from the point of view of the community. The work further on analyses in detail those changes that have been taken the most important, in comparison to the conditions before 1945; it classifies the groups which in respect of mobility have remained on the same level or changed cither in positive or in negative direction. About 40% of the present inhabitants is made up of those remaining essentially on the same level; there is a considerable number of those (30%) who belong to the upward evenly mobile stratum: there are only a few who have made a big leap upwards in the development; and finally, 20% of the inhabitants gives the downward mobile stratum. It can be concluded that similarly to the stratum having made an upward leap, there are only some which have moved on in the development in either directions, first upwards, then downwards, or reverse. The different family types arc given by the social strata, profession groups and the level and direction of mobility. In addition to these aspects, the following factors are considered: has the individual improved his expert knowledge or remained on the same level or if he has fallen behind with his expert knowledge in the development. As earlier, the ground for comparison for this factor, too is the conditions before 1945. The same aspects have been applied in the study of those travelling daily to work. This section of the study emphatically deals with the question if anyone from the families of the daily travellers works in agriculture. This is an important aspect as agricultural work connects up the family to the village community. When all members of a family are commuters, that family does not any longer belong to this community. On the basis of the above factors the following family types can be determined: 62