Bősze Sándor: „Az egyesületi élet a polgári szabadság…” Somogy megye egyesületei a dualizmus korában - Somogyi Almanach 53. (Kaposvár, 1997)

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RESUME „Society Life and Civil Liberty... " — Societies of Somogy County in the Dualism The author performed a two-fold task by completing this. book. On one hand he tries to summarize the observations of one and a half decades of his work, on the other hand as an archivist he wants to alloy the history of the location with public history. History proved, that starting from the 18th century the various societies, clubs, associations improved social (econimic, social, political, cultural etc.) publicity. In addition, certainly they accelerated the process of bourgeois civilization. According to the author in order to reveal certain social forms of institutions organized on voluntary principle in their, say original, organic development he had to survey periods long time preceding the last fifty years. He considers, in case he wants to begin long-term, more well-founded really valuable research providing useful results, he will have to pay his attention to permanent, more constant categories. Within the above mentioned he has to deal with the formation of this specific but not at all rare segment of the autonomy together with its practice and the formation of the local communities. The author is justified that studying the past of the societies and associations may open up new sources for proper scientific fields of research. As the Dualism felt the absence of the definition of the idea what an association was and there was no comprehensive provision of laws precisely there was no description of its concepts during the period, therefore the author took the responsibility of compensating i. e. describing the associations to be researched. He was advised by the published studies of the history of associations that the sources of the archives ought to be considered, too. According to Bősze forming of the various types of the associations has its own terminological and notional problems. The changes in time and geograph, (the absolute and relative density of associations), appearing of certain types of associations, their propering, or decreasing - and certainly - so as to reveal the correlation with their position in different historical situations: the cadastral surveys reluted to given counties are very benefitial. Unfortunatelly, the exceptionally bad sources-facilities enabled only in a limited way to analyse the membership and personnel of the associations, and its economic conditions providing successful club activity. The most comprehensive thematic unit of the book is the relatively detailed description of the types of associations in Somogy. After the survey of the association types the author deals with the importance of the associations of the county, i. e. their social role or rather the socialization within the associations. Issues are involved by him, such as