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- Towards Equal Opportunities for Small Villages and Villagers – Opportunities, Development Paths and Good Development Practice in Rural Regions
- Urban Areas, Socio-spatial Inequalities and Conflicts.The Socio-spatial Factors of European Competitiveness
- Social Determination of Educational Opportunities
- Research on Hungarian Gypsy, 1890-2007
- Subsistance Strategies of Poor Families. Regional and Ethnic Aspects
- Outside and inside – three times. Border, Locality, and Ethnicity - Coping and Grabbing Strategies in Four Border Regions in Post-socialist Hungary
- Education and Politics
- Ministries and Background Institutions in the Process of Reorganisation. The Reform of the State. Transformation of the System of Public Administration
- Characteristics of the Knowledge and Manpower Use: Special Focus on the Work Organisations
- European Social Survey (ESS)
- Lifestyle-, Living Form- and Space Utilization Types in Contemporary Urban Areas
- What kind of international experiences can help the Hungarian municipal climate programs?
- Climate Change Municipalities in the United Kingdom
- Future Views of Hungary in 2015 and 2020
- Hungary’s CIS Strategy: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan
- Climate Change Strategics for Local Governments
- Meetings with Cultures
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- The Proliferation of Categories. „Benevolent” Segregation
- Homeless Population and Drugs
- ISDR-2 sampling survey - research amongst youths
- Social Exclusion of LGBT People in Hungary
- Ecological and Social Diversification
- On the Factors Hindering or Facilitating Telework Diffusion in International Perspective
- Cultural Capitals and the Concepcion of City Releationship
- Climate Friedly Municipalities
- Peace Processes in Community Conflicts: From Understanding the Roots of Conflicts to Conflict Resolution (Peace-Com)
- Ethnic Differences in Education and Diverging Prospects for Urban Youth in an Enlarged Europe (EDUMIGROM)
- Measuring the Dynamics of Organisation and Work (MEADOW)
- The Role of Knowledge in the Construction and Regulation of Health and Education Policy in Europe: Convergences and Specificities Among Nations and Sectors (KNOWandPOL)
- Work Organisation and Restructuring in the Knowledge Society (WORKS)
- New Social Risks in the European Knowledge Society and Higher Education (NESOR)
- Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe (RECWOWE)
- Awareness-raising on the Role of Men as Agents of Change in Reconciling Work and Welfare (GENDERWISE)
- Flexible Adaptability of Enterprises and Employees – Research Experiences and Best Practices
- Eastern Enlargement – Western Enlargement. Cultural Encounters in the European Economy and Society after the Accession (DIOSCURI)
- Reconciliation of Employment and Care for Older Family Members – Employers and Carers Perspectives
- Project on Intergenerational Equity
- Employment Initiatives for an Ageing workforce. European Foundation Improvement Living and Working Condition
- Ageing and Employment: Identification of Good Practice to Increase Job Opportunities and Maintain Older Workers in Employment
- Connecting People: Raising Awareness about Developmental Issues in the Production of Next Genration Consumer Electronic
- Documentation of former Forced and Slave Labourers
- Good Practice in Practice. Transferability of Innovative Innitiatives for Migrant Integration in Europe
- Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project
- Secret Paths”: Non-official Contacts and Exchanges of the Citizens of Eastern Bloc between 1956 and 1989
- HIV Prevention within High-Risk Social Networks 2.
- Sustainable Consumption, Production, Communication
- Research Group for Climate Change
- Research Group for Equal Opportunities
- Research Group for Cultures, Policies, Lifestyle
- Research Group for Political and Organisational Culture
- Research Group for Sociology of Organisation and Work
- Research Group for Gender Issues and Social Minorities
- Research Group for Societal and Social Policy
- Social Studies Analysis Methodology Workgroup (SAM)
- Research Group for Regional Development Policies
- Research Group for Knowledge and Innovation
- Research Group for Urban and Environmental Sociology
- Research Group for Welfare Mix
- Community and Culture (KÉK)
- Social Science Research
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- Opportunities and possibilities for social integration for young adults living with disabilities in Hungary
- Climate change
- Research of values, ESS
- Environmental policy, sociology
- Needs for Female Immigrants and their Integration in Ageing Societies (FEMAGE)
- Fieldwork and data analysis of the European Social Survey Round 4 (ESS R4)
- Hungary in the European Union
- Civil Society for Sustainability
- Knowledge & Policy Workshop, November 2008, Budapest
- Organisational innovations and knowledge use in the business service sector
- Voices of the 20th Century
- New Perspectives, Old Dilemmas. The Gendered Construction of ‘Care’’ after the Transition in Hungary
- Aftermaths of War: Women's Movements and Female Activists, 1918-1923
- Workplace Partnerships for Childcare Solutions
- Domestic violence against women/men in Europe: Prevalence, determinants, effects and policies/practices
- The development of the scientific activities in the higher economic education, the application of the sociological research results in the educational practice
- The diverseness and parity of the forms of learning: how do we learn?
- Intimate Partner Violence against Elderly Women
- HAPPY AGEING: A Home Based Approach to the Years of Ageing
- Migrants in elder-care
- The interdisciplinary approach to prosociol behaviour
- Aging
- Migration-eldercare
- Migrants carers
- Research Group for Qualitative Research
- Archive
- Hungary’s CIS Strategy: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan
- Governmentability of science and technology
- After ten years: Hungarian grand entrepreneurs in the European Union
- Development and application of a Standardized Methodology for the PROspective Sustainability assessment of Technologies (PROSUITE)
- Citizens in Diversity: A Four-Nation Study on Homophobia and Fundamental Rights
- Against Homophobia. European Local Administration Devices (AHEAD)
- The Born and Unborn Children of the 1989 Transition: the Effects of the Socio-cultural Circumstances of Giving Birth on Demographic Processes
- International Socio-Technical Challenges for implementing geological disposal (InSOTEC)
- The social mechanisms and interests determining consumption models. The model of sustainable consumption
- Creation of a New Urban Development Model? Transition and Globalization in Hungarian New Town Areas
- Sustainable consumption - Formation of a social science project
- Metropolitan Regions in Europe - Urban Development Processes and Social-Environmental Effects. Professional Seminar of Young Regionalists.
- Governance, Infrastructure, Lifestyle Dynamics and Energy Demand: European Post-Carbon Communities (GILDED)
- Elite and Innovation
- The Hungarian Political Elite
- Former Researchers
- socio.hu :: Online journal
- Multiple Discrimination
- Regional ICT Foresight exercise for Southeast European countries
- Life paths in and out of prison. Opportunities for subjective re-socialization
- Living from their land: Agricultural, rural development trajectories
- The social history of homosexuality
- The Institutionalization of Roma Politics
- Social polarization in the Hungarian and Eastern-Central European 'New Town' Regions. Impacts of Transition and Globalization
- The role of culture and values in economic competitiveness
- Families in mortgage crisis
- MOPACT: Mobilising the Potential of Active Ageing in Europe
- Teachers' Education for Roma New Opportunities in School (TERNO)
- Integrative and desintegrative processes in Hungarian society
- Research group on sustainable well-being in ageing societies
- Medical sociology, health policy
- Social inequalities and social policy
- Urban and Environmental Research
- Social groups, conflicts, integration
- Research stream for network analysis
- Qualitative sociological methods
- Studies on Memory, Culture, and Values
- Families and Gender
- Families and societies
- PROSUITE
- THEMP
- News :: Research group on sustainable well-being in ageing societies
- Projects :: Research group on sustainable well-being in ageing societies
- Events :: Research group on sustainable well-being in ageing societies
- Conference participation :: Research group on sustainable well-being in ageing societies
- Quality of Jobs and Innovation Generated Employment Outcomes (QuInnE)
- Cultural heritage and sustainable rural development
- The participation of mad persons in Hungarian society of the 21st century's
- Roma media representation 1988–2015
- The life cycle of an online social network: Big Data analysis
- Studies in Sociology
- Selected publications
- Angéla Kóczé (2015) Political Empowerment or Political Incarceration of Roma
- Ágnes Kapitány - Gábor Kapitány (2015) The semiotic dimensions of vertical social (self)classification
- Zsófia Boda – Bálint Néray (2015) Inter-ethnic friendship and negative ties in secondary school
- Gábor Hajdu – Tamás Hajdu (2015) The Impact of Culture on Well-Being: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
- Migrant, Roma and Post-Colonial Youth in Education across Europe: Being ‘Visibly Different’ (2014)
- Ágota Scharle – Dorottya Szikra (2015) Recent Changes Moving Hungary away from the European Social Model
- Bernadett Csurgó - Imre Kovách (2015) The LEADER Programme in Hungary – Bottom-up Development with top-down control?
- Agnes Kapitány-Gábor Kapitány: Problems of Individualization in the Everyday Culture of Eastern Europe.
- B. Dávid et al. (2016) Egocentric contact networks in comparison: Taiwan and Hungary
- Szalma I – Takács J (2015) Who Remains Childless? Unrealized Fertility Plans in Hungary
- COURAGE: Cultural opposition in the former socialist countries
- Career Models and Career Advancement in Research and Development. Different Patterns and Inequalities in Labour Market Opportunities, Personal Network Building and Work-Life Balance
- The effect of agricultural and rural development policy on local small-scale agrifood production
- (Dis)continuities Hungarian Sociology Between 1960 and 2010
- History of memory in the East: Hungary 1945-2004
- Judit Takács (2016) LGBT Employees in the Hungarian Labor Market
- “Artificial Towns” in the 21st Century: Social Polarisation in the New Town Regions of East-Central Europe (Ed. Viktória Szirmai, 2016)
- Messing, Vera – Bereményi, Ábel Bálint (2016) Is ethnicity a meaningful category of employment policies for Roma? A comparative case study of Hungary and Spain
- B. Csurgó - I. Kovách - N. Mathieu (2016) Exploring Innovation and Sustainability in the Metropolitan Rural Areas
- Csaba Makó – Miklós Illéssy (2016) Segmented capitalism in Hungary. Diverging or converging development paths?
- Beyond the transition. Social Change in China and Central-Eastern Europe (2016)
- Explaining welfare attitudes: general moral principles, issue framing and survey design
- Paksi, V., Nagy, B., & Király, G. (2016) The timing of motherhood while earning a PhD in engineering
- The role of cultural heritage in social cohesion and diversity of local communities and in sustainable development of rural areas
- European Social Survey, European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ESS ERIC)
- Melanie Kay Smith – Anya Diekmann (2017) Tourism and wellbeing
- Tamás Hajdu – Gábor Hajdu (2017) The association between experiential and material expenditures and subjective well-being: New evidence from Hungarian survey data
- Jan Vávra, Boldizsár Megyesi, Barbora Duží, Tony Craig, Renata Klufová, Miloslav Lapka, Eva Cudlínová (2017) Food Self-provisioning in Europe: An Exploration of Sociodemographic Factors in Five Regions
- The impact of a restrictive abortion policy on infants’ health and on socioeconomic outcomes of children and parents
- Circulation and Dissent in the Hungarian Cultural Elite
- Franklin–Kovách–Csurgó (2017) Governing Social Innovation: Exploring the Role of ‘Discretionary Practice’ in the Negotiation of Shared Spaces of Community Food Growing
- Societal challenges of energy use
- The sociology of urban planning - urban planning and society
- Algorithmed Social Spaces (ASS)
- Ivett Szalma: Non-resident fathers’ role in their children’s lives
- Péter Baji, Young Research Fellow
- Tamás P.Tóth: MSM (men who have sex with men) Sex Workers in Hungary
- Fertility awareness and the efficacy of the fertility education
- Dorottya Szikra: Ideology or Pragmatism in Policy Making. The Family Policy of the Orbán-government between 2010 and 2018
- Ruptures in Hungarian social structure: impacts of consumption, institutions and territorial differences
- Uncovering patterns of inequalities and imbalances in large-scale networks
- Éva Kovács (2018) Limits of Universalization: The European Memory
- Acsády Judit - Mészáros Zsolt - Zombory Máté (2018) Reflections on the Gender Aspects of World War One. Commemoration Projects and Historiography in Hungary
- Implementing nature based solutions for creating a resourceful circular city
- Diasa–Costaa–Soaresa–Hatzidimitriadoud–Ioannidi-Kapoloue–Lindertf–Sundin–Toth–Barros–Fraga (2018) Social support and the intimate partner violence victimization among adults from six European countries
- Costa–Hatzidimitriadou–Ioannidi-Kapolo–Lindert–Soares–Sundin–Toth–Barros (2018) The impact of intimate partner violence on forgone healthcare
- RURALIZATION
- INVOlvement of Trade UNions in the European Semester (INVOTUNES)
- Crowd-work – Finding new strategies to organise labour in Europe
- Vera Messing (2019) Conceptual and Methodological Considerations in Researching “Roma Migration”
- Hajdu, Gábor – Sik, Endre (2019) Are the Work Values of the Younger Generations Changing? in: Youth Labor in Transition - Inequalities, Mobility, and Policies in Europe, edited by Jacqueline O'Reilly, Janine Leschke, Renate Ortlieb, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser,
- Acsády, Judit (2019) Women’s Industrial Labor in Hungary: An Overview of Main Tendencies and Turning Points from the End of the Nineteenth Century
- Smith, Melanie Kay - Pinke Sziva, Ivett - Olt, Gergely (2019) Overtourism and Resident Resistance in Budapest
- Everlasting oak
- Projects in the Institute
- The application of big data and natural language processing in the social sciences
- Ivett Szalma, Judit Takács (2018) Is There Voluntary Childlessness At All in Hungary?
- Éva Kovács: Talkin’ ’bout a revolution. On the social memory of 1989 in Hungary (proof)
- Raul Cârstocea and Éva Kovács (Eds.): Modern Antisemitisms in the Peripheries. Europe and its Colonies 1880-1945
- Takács, Judit (2019) How involved are involved fathers in Hungary? Exploring caring masculinities in a post-socialist context
- Győri, Ágnes – Czakó, Ágnes – Horzsa, Gergely (2019) Innovation, financial culture, and the social-economic environment of SMEs in Hungary
- Tóth, Olga (2020) Violence and maltreatment of the elderly in Hungary
- Katona, Noémi (2019) Combating trafficking of Hungarian women to Western Europe: a multi-level analysis of the international law enforcement cooperation
- Csurgó, Bernadett - Hindley, Clare - Smith, Melanie Kay (2019) Imagined Idylls and Nostalgic Idealization: Gastronomic Tourism in Rural Hungary
- The role of cultural heritage in social cohesion and diversity of local communities and in sustainable development of rural areas
- (De-)Democratization and the trajectories of civil society
- Dorottya Szikra (2019) Ideology or Pragmatism? Interpreting Social Policy Change under the System of National Cooperation
- The changing significance of class in comparative perspective
- Czibere, I – Kovách, I – Megyesi, B (2020) Environmental Citizenship and Energy Efficiency in Four European Countries (Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Hungary)
- Koltai, Júlia – Sik, Endre – Simonovits, Bori (2020) Network capital and migration potential
- Gerő, Márton – Sik, Endre (2020): The Moral Panic Button: construction and consequences
- Kovách, Imre (and co-authors) (2020): Knowledge and Environmental Citizenship
- Balogh, Péter – Bujdos, Ágnes – Czibere, Ibolya – Fodor, László – Gabnai, Zoltán – Kovách, Imre – Nagy, János – Bai, Attila (2020) Main Motivational Factors of Farmers Adopting Precision Farming in Hungary
- Takács, Judit (2020) Hungary
- Zombory, Máté – Lénárt, András – Szász, Anna Lujza (2020) Vergessene Konfrontation: Holocaust und Erinnerung in Zoltán Fábris Film Nachsaison
- Messing, Vera – Ságvári, Bence (2020) From landing to arrival. Mapping the subtle integration of immigrants in Western Europe
- Makó, Csaba – Illéssy, Miklós – Nosratabadi, Saeed (2020) Emerging Platform Work in Europe: Hungary in Cross-country Comparison
- Szalma, Ivett – Djundeva, Maja (2019) What shapes public attitudes towards assisted reproduction technologies in Europe?
- Gerő, Márton – Susánszky, Pál – Kopper, Ákos – Tóth, Gergely (2020) Strategies for Survival: Human Rights Organizations’ Responses to the Closing of Political Opportunity Structures in Hungary
- Bartha, Attila – Boda, Zsolt – Szikra, Dorottya (2020) When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making
- Albert, Fruzsina – Hajdu, Gábor (2020) Association between poverty indicators and social relations
- Szalma, Ivett – Rékai, Krisztina (2020) Personal and Online Contact during the COVID-19 Pandemic among Nonresident Parents and their Children in Hungary
- Fejős, Anna (2020) ‘There Is an Exemplar because I’m There.’ Professional Roles and Experiences of Roma Teachers in Rural Hungary
- Social context, social inequalities, and subjective well-being
- Rural resilience and local identity: Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the relationship between rural image, local identity, and living strategies in the Hungarian countryside
- Herke, Boglárka (2020) Investigating the Welfare Deservingness of Single Mothers: Public Image and Deservingness Perceptions in Hungary
- Albert, Fruzsina – Hajdu, Gábor – Dávid, Beáta (2020) Egocentric Contact Networks of Older Adults: Featuring Quantity, Strength and Function of Ties
- Ochsner, Michael – Szalma Ivett – Takács, Judit (Eds.) Division of Labour within Families, Work–Life Conflict and Family Policy. Thematic Issue of Social Inclusion, 2020, 8, 4
- Katona, Noémi – Melegh, Attila (Eds.) (2020) Towards a scarcity of care? Tensions and contradictions in transnational elderly care systems in central and eastern Europe
- Hajdu, Tamás – Hajdu, Gábor (2021) Post-conception heat exposure increases clinically unobserved pregnancy losses.
- Hajdu, Tamás – Hajdu, Gábor (2021) Temperature, climate change, and human conception rates: Evidence from Hungary.
- Albert, Fruzsina – Koltai, Júlia – Dávid, Beáta (2021): The increasing importance of friends: Changes in core discussion network composition in post-communist Hungary between 1997 – 2015.
- Hajdu, Gábor – Hajdu, Tamás (2021): The long-term impact of restricted access to abortion on children’s socioeconomic outcomes
- Interns
- Szalma Ivett (2020) Contact Between Non-Resident Parents and Their Children During the COVID-19 in Hungary
- Sik Endre (2021) Intra- and inter-household network capital
- Kristóf Luca (2021) From Cultural Policy towards Cultural Politics? The Case of the Hungarian Cultural Sphere
- BRIDGES: Assessing the production and impact of migration narratives
- Csurgó, Bernadett – Smith, Melanie K. (2021) The value of cultural ecosystem services in a rural landscape context
- Olt, Gergely – Csizmady, Adrienne (2020): Gentrification and functional change in Budapest: 'ruin bars’ and the commodification of housing in a post-socialist context
- Péter Balogh – Attila Bai – Ibolya Czibere – Imre Kovách – László Fodor – Ágnes Bujdos – Dénes Sulyok – Zoltán Gabnai – Zoltán Birkner (2021): Economic and Social Barriers of Precision Farming in Hungary
- Gergely Csányi – Szabina Kerényi (2021): A Semi-Peripheral Myth of the “Good Mother”: The History of Motherly Love in Hungary from a Global Perspective
- Olt, Gergely – Smith, Melanie Kay – Csizmady, Adrienne – Sziva, Ivett (2021) Gentrification, tourism and the night-time economy in Budapest's district VII – the role of regulation in a post-socialist context
- Award and prize winners
- Scholarships
- Katona, Noémi – Zacharenko, Elena (2021) The dependency on East - to - West Care labour migration in the EU. Addressing Inequalities and Exploitation
- Kovács, Éva (2021) Black Bodies, White Bodies – ‘Gypsy’ Images in Central Europe at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1880–1920)
- Szalma, Ivett – Bitó, Tamás (2021) Knowledge and attitudes about assisted reproductive technology: Findings from a Hungarian online survey.
- Acsády, Judit (2021) Hungarian Feminist Periodicals as Alternative Public Spaces, 1907–18: Values, Networks, and Dissemination Strategies.
- Messing, Vera – Ságvári, Bence (2021) Are anti-immigrant attitudes the Holy Grail of populists? A comparative analysis of attitudes towards immigrants, values, and political populism in Europe.
- Czibere, Ibolya – Kovách, Imre (2021) State Populism in Rural Hungary
- Takács Judit – P.Tóth Tamás (2021) Liberating Pathologization? The Historical Background of the 1961 Decriminalization of Homosexuality in Hungary
- Herke Boglárka – Kutrovátz Kitti – Paksi Veronika – Ivony Éva (2021) Career Types and Career Satisfaction Among Sociology Doctoral Graduates of Corvinus University
- Imre Kovách – Boldizsár Gergely Megyesi – Angela Barthes – Hasan Volkan Oral – Marija Smederevac-Lalic (2021) Knowledge Use in Education for Environmental Citizenship - Results of Four Case Studies in Europe (France, Hungary, Serbia, Turkey)
- Márton Gerő – Piotr Kocyba (2021) Kritische Zivil-gesellschaft als Staatsfeind – das Fallbeispiel Ungarn
- Győri, Ágnes – Perpék, Éva (2021) Work conditions and burnout: An exploratory study among Hungarian workers in family and child welfare, child protection and pedagogical professional services
- Győri, Ágnes – Huszár, Ákos – Balogh, Karolina (2021) Differences in the Domestic Energy Consumption in Hungary: Trends between 2006–2017
- Sik, Endre (2021) Triangulating Ethnicity, Networks and Informality
- Herke, Boglárka – Janky, Béla (2021) The Role of the Deservingness Criteria in the Case of Single Mothers’ Perceived Welfare Deservingness in Hungary.
- Éva Huszti – Fruzsina Albert – Adrienne Csizmady – Ilona Nagy – Beáta Dávid (2021) When Spatial Dimension Matters: Comparing Personal Network Characteristics in Different Segregated Areas
- Tardos Katalin – Ságvári Bence (2021) The Impact of Digitalisation on Society and Industrial Relations in Hungary: A Comparison of Corporate, Employee and Trade Union Perspectives
- Máté Zombory – Claire Drevon (2021) 9. Documentation historique pendant la guerre froide: L’histoire du livre de Jenő Lévai, Eichmann en Hongrie (1961)
- Ákos Huszár – Katalin Füzér (2021) Improving Living Conditions, Deepening Class Divisions: Hungarian Class Structure in International Comparison, 2002–2018.
- Sára Hungler – Zsuzsa Árendás (2021) The level playing field of Hungarian social partners before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Ibolya Czibere – Imre Kovách – Piotr Szukalski – Pawel Starosta (2021) Depopulation and Public Policies in Rural Central Europe. The Hungarian and Polish Cases
- Imre Kovách – Boldizsár Megyesi – Attila Bai – Péter Balogh (2022) Sustainability and Agricultural Regeneration in Hungarian Agriculture
- Ságvári, Bence – Messing, Vera (2021) Social perceptions and their changes about life course and timing of key life events in Europe
- Call for Papers | Why to Care About Sociology? - Are Contemporary Crises of Our Time Explicable Without Sociological Knowledge?
- Incoding - Democracy at Work through Transparent and Inclusive Algorithmic Management
- Reproduction related decisions from macro-micro perspectives in European comparison in the (post-)pandemic era
- To help or to be helped? Professional working conditions, mental health and mobility in the social sector
- Sustainable consumption patterns, behavioral strategies and knowledge use in the Hungarian society. A social scientific analysis of sustainable food and energy consumption
- Stefkovics, Ádám – Sik, Endre (2022) What Drives Happiness? The Interviewer’s Happiness
- Herke, Boglárka – Vicsek, Lilla (2022) The attitudes of young citizens in higher education towards universal basic income in the context of automation – A qualitative study
- The changing significance of class in comparative perspective
- Research Department for Social Integration and Inequalities
- Intra-household network capital
- Implementing nature based solutions for creating a resourceful circular city
- Marieke Heers, Ivett Szalma (2022) Gender role attitudes and father practices as predictors of nonresident father-child contact
- Writing Urban Places. New Narratives of the European City
- European Network for Environmental Citizenship
- International Ethnic and Immigrant Minorities' Survey Data Network
- RE-DWELL Delivering affordable and sustainable housing in Europe
- Zsuzsanna, Árendás – Judit, Durst – Noémi, Katona – Vera, Messing (2022) The Limits of Trading Cultural Capital: Returning Migrant Children and Their Educational Trajectory in Hungary
- Adrienne Csizmady, Márton Bagyura, Gergely Olt (2022): From a Small Village to an Exclusive Gated Community: Unplanned Suburbanisation and Local Sovereignty in Post‐Socialist Hungary
- Bernadett Csurgó, Melanie K. Smith (2022): Cultural Heritage, Sense of Place and Tourism: An Analysis of Cultural Ecosystem Services in Rural Hungary
- Immler, Nicole – Kovács, Éva (2022) Zum politischen Anspruch der Oral History. Über das epistemische Schweigen und die ontologische Taubheit der Mehrheitsgesellschaft
- Ákos Huszár, Ágnes Győri, Karolina Balogh (2022) Resistance to Change: Intergenerational Class Mobility in Hungary, 1973–2018
- Judit Durst – Ákos Huszár (2022): Individual success, collective failure? The process and consequences of social (im)mobility in neo-liberal times
- Zsuzsanna Árendás – Vera Messing (2022): ‘I was told the position has already been filled’ Barriers to mobility and coping strategies of highly qualified Roma youth on their way to the business sector in Hungary
- Ákos Huszár – Karolina Balogh – Ágnes Győri (2022): Educational mobility at the top and the bottom of the social structure in Hungary
- Zsuzsa Árendás (2022): Under the long shadow of working-class origins. “The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged” by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison. Policy Press & Bristol University Press, 2020. Book Review
- Endre Sik – Éva Bognár – Ráchel Surányi (2022) The Operation of the Moral Panic Button
- Veronika Paksi – Beáta Nagy – Katalin Tardos (2022) Perception of Barriers to Motherhood: Female Phd Students’ Changing Family Plans in the STEM Fields
- Ivett Szalma – Hana Hašková – Livia Oláh – Judit Takács (2022) Fragile Pronatalism? Barriers to Parenthood, One-Child Families, and Childlessness in European Post-Socialist Countries
- Ivett Szalma – Judit Takács (2022) Exploring Older Men’s Pathways to Childlessness in Hungary: Did the Change of Policy Regime Matter?
- Aron Buzogány – Szabina Kerényi – Gergely Olt (2022) Back to the grassroots? The shrinking space of environmental activism in illiberal Hungary
- Adrienne Csizmady – Lea Kőszeghy (2022) 'Generation Rent’ in a Super Homeownership Environment: The Case of Budapest, Hungary
- Ágnes Lukács J. – Beáta Dávid (2023) Connecting for success: Egocentric network types among underrepresented minority students at college
- COVID epidemic - social inequalities and integration
- Understanding vaccination intention in various social contexts
- Kovách, Imre – Gerő, Márton (2022) Redistribution and Integration
- Attila Bai – Imre Kovách – Ibolya Czibere – Boldizsár Megyesi – Péter Balogh (2022) Examining the Adoption of Drones and Categorisation of Precision Elements among Hungarian Precision Farmers Using a Trans-Theoretical Model
- Adrienne Csizmady – Ágnes Győri – Lea Kőszeghy (2022) No money, no housing security? The role of intergenerational transfers, savings, and mortgage in mobility within and into insecure housing positions in Hungary
- Stefkovics, Ádám (2022) Are you listening? Examining the level of multitasking and distractions and their impact on data quality in a telephone survey
- Márton Gerő – Anna Fejős – Szabina Kerényi – Dorottya Szikra (2022) From Exclusion to Co-Optation: Political Opportunity Structures and Civil Society Responses in De-Democratising Hungary
- Jasmin Söhner – Máté Zombory (2022) Accusing Hans Globke, 1960–1963: Agency and the Iron Curtain
- Judit Takács – Katherine Fobear – Szilvia Schmitsek (2022) Resisting Genderphobia in Hungary
- UNTWIST: Policy recommendations to regain 'feminism losers' as mainstream voters
- Imre Kovách - Boldizsár Megyesi: Motivations of Subsistence Farming in Hungary: Analysis of a Multi-Factored Phenomenon (2023)
- Ágnes Győri - Imre Kovách: The New Dimension of Social Inequality: The Agricultural Land Use Structure and the Development Level of Settlements (2023)
- Imre Kovách - Karolina Balogh: Population Dynamics of the Hungarian Villages 1995–2016 (2023)
- Selected publications 2011- 2015
- Ágnes Győri: The impact of social-relationship patterns on worsening mental health among the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Hungary (2023)
- Molina, O., Butollo, F., Makó, C., Godino, A., Holtgrewe, U., Illsoe, A., Junte, S., Larsen, T. P., Illéssy, M., Pap, J., & Wotschack, P. (2023). It takes two to code: a comparative analysis of collective bargaining and artificial intelligence.
- Arendas Z, Trąbka A, Messing V, Pietrusińska MJ, Winogrodzka D. (2023). Agency of Migrant Youth in Hostile Sociopolitical Environments: Case Studies from Central Eastern Europe.
- Selected international research projects
- CareOrg: Researching the transnational organization of senior care, labor and mobility in Central and Eastern Europe
- Selected research projects
- Dávid B., Herke B., Huszti É., Tóth G., Túry-Angyal E., Albert F. (2023). Reshaping Social Capital During the Pandemic Crisis: Age Group Differences in Face‐to‐Face Contact Network Structures
- Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe
- Selected national research projects
- Gábriel, Dóra (2023). The interconnectedness of biographies, migration and gender norms.
- Gergely Horzsa: “What Would You Do If You Were to Win the Lottery?” A Qualitative Tool for Overcoming Agency-Structure Issues in Migration Research (2023)
- Opportunities and limitations of smart technologies in the context of social acceptance
- Éva Kovács (2023). The Sensual Memory of Shoah: The Meaning of Sound, Touch and Taste in the Culture of Testimonies.
- Kékesi, Z., & Zombory, M. (2023). Beyond multidirectional memory: Opening pathways to politics and solidarity
- Gárdos, J. (2023) “Questions and Explanations in Sociology: A Science Studies Field Study”
- Éva Bognár, Péter Kerényi, Endre Sik, Ráchel Surányi, Zsolt Szabolcsi (2023). Migration narratives in media and social media.
- Albert Fruzsina – Biró Emese (2023) Peer-group ties and a prison sentence: a chance to enhance successful re-entry
- Hajdu, G., & Hajdu, T. (2023). Does the unemployment rate moderate the well-being disadvantage of the unemployed? Within-region estimates from the European Social Survey
- Herke, B. (2023), Welfare that works for women? Mothers' experiences of the conditionality within universal credit. By Anderson, Kate, Bristol: Policy Press. 2023. pp. 192. £45.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978-1447366386.
- Czibere,I.,Kovách,I. & Loncsák,N.(2023).Hungarian Farmers and the Adoption of Precision Farming
- Bai A., Czibere I., Kovách I., Megyesi B., Balogh P. (2023). The monetary value of convenience and environmental features in residential heat energy consumption, in particular its social determinants.
- Gárdos J., Egyed-Gergely J., Horváth A., Pataki B., Vajda R., Micsik A. (2023), Identification of social scientifically relevant topics in an interview repository: a natural language processing experiment
- Olt G., Simonovits B., Bernát A., Csizmady A. (2023): Housing Commodification and Increasing Potential Ground Rents in Post-Socialist Budapest.
- Elhamdadi, H., Stefkovics, A., Beyer, J., Moerth, E., Pfister, H., Bearfield, C. X., & Nobre, C. (2023). Vistrust: a Multidimensional Framework and Empirical Study of Trust in Data Visualizations
- Stefkovics, Á., Zenovitz, L. Global warming vs. climate change frames: revisiting framing effects based on new experimental evidence collected in 30 European countries
- Gerő M., Pokornyi Zs., Sik E., Surányi R. (2023) The impact of narratives on policy-making at the national level: the case of Hungary, BRIDGES Working Paper No. 22.
- Stefkovics, Á. (2023). The association between the interviewers’ and the respondents’ political attitudes in a telephone survey
- Albert F., Brys Z., Gerdán M., Herke B. (2023). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on important relationships in Hungary
- Exploring and Educating Cultural Literacy through Art (EXPECT_art)
- Joó T., Foley K., Brys Z., et al. (2024). Impact of regulatory tightening of the Hungarian tobacco retail market on availability, access and cigarette smoking prevalence of adolescents
- Gárdos, J., Hungler, S., & Illéssy, M. (2024). Anti-pluralism, Labour Market Policy and the Pandemic: Political Uses and Social Consequences of COVID-19 in Hungary
- Ivett Szalma - Marieke Heers (2024): Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe. Understanding the Links Between Pronatalism and Voluntary Childlessness
- Miklós Illéssy - Ákos Huszár - Péter Csizmadia (2024). Flexibility without security: Labour market integration mechanisms in Hungary during the 2010s.
- Márton Gerő - Andrea Szabó (2024). Political integration mechanisms in Hungary (2010–2022)
- Imre Kovách - Luca Kristóf (2024). Social structure and integration: Occupational classes and integration mechanisms between 2015 and 2021
- Cinderella Komolafe - Beáta Dávid (2024). Examining the characteristics of Roma–non-Roma interethnic romantic relationships using decision tree analysis
- Stefkovics, Á., Ágoston, C., Bukovenszki, E., Dúll, A., Hortay, O., & Varga, A. (2024). Climate change worry in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence from two large-scale European surveys.
- Stefkovics Ádám, Angela Eichhorst, Dominic Skinnion, Chase H Harrison (2024): Are We Becoming More Transparent? Survey Reporting Trends in Top Journals of Social Sciences, International Journal of Public Opinion Research
- Bálint Hilbert (2024). Urban governance systems in autonomous territories of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: The cases of Croatia-Slavonia and Austrian Galicia (1867-1918).
- Ágnes Győri (2024). Relationship between Social Networks, Support Patterns, and Health Problems among the General Hungarian Population during the Last Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Ivett Szalma - Borbála Júlia Szczuka (2024). Reproductive Choices and Climate Change in a Pronatalist Context
- Ibolya Czibere, Karolina Balogh, Imre Kovách, Gabriella Nemes-Zámbó (2024). Exclusionary Mechanisms of Social Policy Redistribution in Hungary
- Vera Messing - András László Pap (2024). Cacophony in conceptualizing and operationalizing ethnicity: the case of Roma in Hungary
- Selected publications 2016-2020
- Socio-spatial inequalities of energy transition
- Bence Völgyi - Katalin Füzér - Fruzsina Albert - Dávid Erát (2024). The role of digital status in adult child–parent relationships in European comparative perspective
- B. Megyesi, A. Gholipour, F. Cuomo, E. Canga, A. Tsatsou, V. Zihlmann, R. Junge, D. Milosevic, R. Pineda-Martos (2024): Perceptions of stakeholders on nature-based solutions in urban planning: a thematic analysis in six European cities
- Regular events
- Awards and scholarships
- Crises, challenges and adaptation in contemporary Hungarian society
- Explanation in sociology in the 21st century. An empirical research
- Boglárka Herke: Welfare deservingness of genders and family types
- ‘Arriving to the city’: social embedding processes of Hungarians in Vienna
- Infra4NextGen
- WelfareExperiences. Secure, Dignified and Just? A paradigm shift in the comparative study of social protection
- Hilbert, B. (2024). New Aspects in Historical-Geographical Research of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: The Legal Nature of the Customs Union and Migration Links between Austria and Hungary (1870–1910)
- Alexandra Sipos - Márton Bagyura (2024). Fighting for Space Within the Cis‐ and Heteronormative Public Sphere: An Analysis of Budapest Pride
- Berezvai, Z., Vitrai, J., Tóth, G., Brys, Z., Bakacs, M., & Joó, T. (2024). Long-term impact of unhealthy food tax on consumption and the drivers behind: a longitudinal study in Hungary
- Veronika Paksi – Katalin Tardos (2024). Professional networking in the field of social sciences
- Ádám Stefkovics, Fruzsina Albert, Anna Sára Ligeti, Beáta Dávid, Szilvia Rudas & Júlia Koltai (2024): Vaccination homophily in ego contact networks during the COVID‑19 pandemic
- Boglárka Herke (2024). Large and/or single-parent families: Public attitudes towards pronatalist and anti-poverty family policies in Hungary.
- Christopher R. Jones, Christian Oltra, Alessio Giacometti, Vanja Čok, Janez Povh, Ursa Lamut, Gaston Meskens, Joke Kenens, Robbe Geysmans, Catrinel Turcanu, Zoltan Ferencz, Maria Teresa Orlando, Chiara Bustreo (2024) The clock is ticking
- Kovács, É., Frojimovics, K. (2024) “A Miraculous Sign!” Vienna Through the Eyes of Hungarian-Jewish Slave Labourers.
- Gábor Hajdu (2024). Perceived income inequality, perceived unfairness and subjective social status in Europe
- Boglárka Herke (2024). Framing the Deservingness of Families: How Government Discourse Contributes to Growing Precarity of Single-Parent Families in Hungary
- Zoltán Kékesi, Máté Zombory (2024). The Postwar Fight Against Fascism: Auschwitz Memory in Leftist Activism
- Komolafe, C., Lukács J, Á., & Dávid, B. (2024). Roma undergraduates’ partner selection and social embeddedness
- Zombory, Máté (2024). Moral Universalism in the East: Anti-Fascist Humanism and the Memory of the Holocaust in Zoltán Fábri’s Film Late Season (1967)
- Márton Gerő (2024). Civil Society, De-democratization and Political Polarization: The Hungarian, Polish, and Israeli Cases
- Dorota Szelewa, Dorottya Szikra (2024). Fighting Gender Equality under the Pandemic. The Case of Polish and Hungarian Anti-Gender Equality and Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies under the COVID-19 Crisis
- Ivett Szalma - Alexandra Sipos (2024). A comparative analysis across reproduction policy fields in Hungary
- Ágnes Győri – Szilvia Ádám (2024). Profession-specific working conditions, burnout, engagement and turnover intention: the case of Hungarian social workers
- Szabina Kerényi, Ildikó Zakariás, Melinda Kovai, Cecília Kovai (2024). Is there a place for ‘community’? Transnational governance, post-socialist authoritarianism, and deinstitutionalization in a child protection NGO in Hungary
- Judit Acsády (2024). Construction of the Modern Woman Thinker’s Identity: Valéria Dienes (1879-1987), the Philosopher and Founder of the Art of Movement School and her Contribution to Women’s Emancipation
- Eva Pfanzelter, Dirk Rupnow, Éva Kovács and Marianne Windsperger (eds) Connected Histories. Memories and Narratives of the Holocaust in Digital Space
- Kopasz, M., Győri, Á., Husz, I., & Medgyesi, M. (2024). Does attending to extremely poor clients increase the burnout of social workers?
- Vidra, Zs., Virágh, E. A. (2024). (In) visibilized? Roma in social, family and workfare policy discourses in the authoritarian neoliberal context of Hungary
- INTERFACED - Interfaces for Democratic Participation: Deliberation, Mobilization and Contestation Since the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Ivett Szalma - Judit Takács (2025). The impact of political-demographic considerations on European attitudes towards parenting and adoption by same-sex couples.
- Assessing the current state of survey interviewers’ network for empirical social sciences
- Benczes, R., Benczes, I., Ságvári, B. & Szabó, L. (2024). When life is no longer a journey: the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the metaphorical conceptualization of life among Hungarian adults – a representative survey.
- Győri, Á., Perpék, É., & Ádám, S. (2024). Mental health risk in human services work across Europe: the predictive role of employment in various sectors.
- Tardos, K., Paksi, V. (2024). The precarity paradox: Experiences of female PhD holders across career stages in STEM fields
- Hilbert, B. (2024). Exploring new dimensions of urban governance: The development of administrative systems in Trieste and Fiume (Rijeka) during the final decades of the Habsburg Empire (1850–1918)
- Vera Messing - Tünde Virág (2025). Doing and undoing communities Opposing municipal narratives and spatial politics in a diverse neighbourhood of Budapest
- SoGreen – Social Aspects of the Green Transition
- Márton Gerő, Szabina Kerényi (2025): Hungary—The Changing Roles of Civil Society and Social Movements Facing Autocratisation.
- Databases
Introduction
The research workshop carries out research on various areas of ageing: ageing at work, social ageing, eldercare, quality of life, family care for elder persons, migration of carers, pension system, interpersonal relations of older persons, their home environment, income, standard of living, the role of technology in their way of life, innovative services for the elderly, elaboration of model programmes. The unit has participated in numerous European and overseas international projects.
Another important area covered by the research workshop is analysis of the system of relations between the nonprofit sector, the state and market sector.
The research work has resulted in many books and volumes of studies in Hungarian and English; the results are continuously published, among others in European Journal of Ageing, Journal of European Social Policy, La Rivista delle Politiche Sociali, European Journal of Social Quality, Ageing International, Esély, Társadalomkutatás, INFO Társadalomtudomány, Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, Gerontologist, Hallyn International Journal of Ageing, Grey Power, Gerontechnology.
Head of Research Group
Széman, Zsuzsa, C.Sc.
Researcher
Kucsera, Csaba, Ph.D. student
Associated researchers
Acsády, Judit Ph.D.
Selected research
HAPPY AGEING: A Home Based Approach to the Years of Ageing
2009-2011
AAL
2008
Oxford Institute of Ageing, UK
2007-2008
NORFACE program
2007-2008
John Fell Oxford University Press Fund
2006-2007
European Foundation
2006-2007
2001-2005; 2006-2007
PIE, Ministry of Education and Sciences of Japan
2004-2005 (final report 2006)
EU DG
2004-2005
ENABLE-AGE - Enabling Autonomy, Participation and Well-Being in Old Age: The Home Environment as a determinant for Healthy Ageing
2002-2004
MOBILATE - Enhancing Outdoor Mobility in Later Life: Personal Coping, Environmental Resources and Technical Support
2000-2002
COST A13
2001-2003
COST A5
1990's
Improvement Living and Working Condition
Former researchers
Gáthy, Vera C.Sc.