ABSTRACT
This research on identity is part of an investigation of social problems among graduates and drop-outs from the Hungarian elementary school system. Young people bom between 1974 and 1979 who do not go on to high school are expected to experience severe social problems based on their large numbers, continuing need for employment, and the low demand for their services in the labor market. Further research will explore problems stemming from the general crisis of state socialism in the late 1980s and the transition of this system into some sort of market economy combined with democratic political pluralism. On the basis of a two-tailed analysis of variance (ANOVA), it can be stated that there were no significant effects of social background variables on the three clusters. This means that our sample is deeply divided along lines of national and racial identification. State socialism might be dead, but the ghosts of ethnonationalism are older and still haunt the present.
