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Az ifjúsági „szervezetek” – IV.
Nagy Olga: A törvény szorításában – Paraszti értékrend és magatartásformák (Gondolat Kiadó, Budapest, 1989, 128–148. o.)
Changing courtship customs in Transylvanian village communities in 1960. Excerpts from a 1989 book on peasant morals and rules for social behavior. This section of excerpts examined first the village of Kispetri/Petrinzel in the Kalotaszeg region west of Kolozsvár/Cluj Napoca, Romania. At the time of the research, in Kispetri marriages were no longer arranged when the children were ten years old. However ten or fifteen years before that, marriages has still been arranged. "In Kispetri [at the time] there [was] no point, since there [was] no private property, everyone and everything belong[ed] to the agricultural cooperative…there [was] no reason for a boy to secure a wealthy bride." This study shows how attitudes changed with the changing economy, land ownership status, etc. under the communist system. The expectations and method for choosing a mate changed. Couples got together later. There were indications that a family’s former social status still mattered. The report goes onby describing how into the 1970s both young women and men of Udvarfalva/ Curteni, Nyárádszereda/Miercurea Nirajului, Mezőpanit/Pănet (all in Maros County) went into the towns to study, learn a trade and then work. The qualities young people began to look for in a mate were level of education and earning capacity from working in the towns. By ethnographer Nagy Olga – from: A törvény szorításában – Paraszti értékrend és magatartásformák – 1989. pp. 138-148.