


TRKI Social Research Inc. is an independent, employee-owned research organisation that specialises in policy research in the fields of social policy and the social consequences of economic policies. This includes related data-collection, archiving and statistical activities. We recently increased our involvement in the areas of strategic market research and health policy analysis. In addition, we regularly contribute to basic research, in the areas of social stratification and inequality, and to the methodology of empirical social research.
TÁRKI European Social Report 2009

This book, the second in the series, seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the similarities and differences between the European societies of the enlarged European Union. The report concentrates on the perceptions, opinions and attitudes of Europeans. From the wide range of potential issues we selected those fields that are most relevant to economic activity.
The analyses included in this book were prepared by TÁRKI Social Research Institute Inc., as part of a research programme entitled "The Social and Cultural Conditions of Economic Growth". The research programme included, among other projects, an empirical study called "The Normative Framework of Market Economy", as well as the Hungarian part of the fifths wave of "
World Values Survey". The research was conducted by
Istvn Gyrgy Tth with the assistance of
Tams Keller.
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Introduction (Istvn Gyrgy Tth) (pdf)
Attitudes to inequality (Orsolya Lelkes) (pdf)
Individual versus government responsibility (Fruzsina Albert and Beta Dvid) (pdf)
State and market (Bla Janky ) (pdf)
Trust and social capital in contemporary Europe (Johanna Giczi and Endre Sik) (pdf)
Work, leisure, time allocation (Judit Monostori ) (pdf)
Conscious consumption (Annamaria Gati) (pdf)
Entrepreneurial inclination, potential entrepreneurs and risk avoidance (Gyrgy Lengyel ) (pdf)
Value of knowledge: skills, competences, opinions (Judit Lannert) (pdf)
On the social norms regulating economic morality - norms obeyed and norms defied (Tams Keller ) (pdf)
The perception, the tolerance, and the practice of corruption (Tams Keller and Endre Sik ) (pdf)
Description of the databases used in the book (pdf)
The authors and editors of the book (pdf)