Not Being Blured by a Mirror The Post-modern, the Paradigm, the Main Stream and the Evil of Temptation in the Science of Regionalism

Abstract

This study reviews the status of regional science in Hungary. Retraces the strenghts, weaknesses, opportunities and possibilities of this new, dinamicly developping social science by the help the SWOT analyze. The author states that regional science is institutionalized in Hungary and every condition and requirement is given. It's social reception and effect is getting more and more important; the interest on the results and adaptation is increasing. This big amount of analysis just had given the processing of the regional processes and institutions of the Hungarian transition; had not created overall theoretical establishments. The base literature of this science building on Hungary' s researches is limited but moving by degrees is observable. Several parts of regional science were educated just by so called part- education for years; there is a hope that the education starts on master level by the two-tier training system. The possibilities of this field of science are widening, since the conditions of scientific cooperation are being created in the Carpathian basis and in Central – Europe. The interest about the regional analysis is going to rise. Risks have to be taken into consideration, while researches are hold up to politics; it is frequently a dilemma to divide guidance and research; but we have to mention that more and more competitors appear on the market of society analysis and development. Regional science had got strong position in Hungary; the most important is to test them on international level and to present them.(Not Being Blured by a Mirror The Post-modern, the Paradigm, the Main Stream and the Evil of Temptation in the Science of Regionalism)