摘要：The assumption that the capacity of the traditional stratification models to explain social dynamics and differences,investigate individual and group activities,explore the motives and choices of norms and values – even in the Hungarian society – has led to the claim to find a different perspective. Accordingly – as Imre Kovách,the editor and one of the several authors1 of the book Social integration – The structure of the inequalities, the cooperation, the redistribution and the power in the Hungarian society (2017) argues – it became necessary to change the former paradigm.The research team offers the new – or rather newly discovered – concept of integration as the key element of this distinctive paradigm. They assume that the various mechanisms responsible forand facilitating integration and disintegration make it possible to elaborate a multidimensional conceptual scheme with the potential to exceed the approach based on the classical labour force positions.The editor introduces in the first article of the book some essential conceptual remarks aboutthe notions and approaches applied in their far-reaching investigation. We can get familiar – besides other issues – with the interpretation and operationalization of the concept and mechanisms of integration,2 and the framework expected to be employable in empirical investigation.
