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CALL FOR PAPERS

Why to Care About Sociology?

- Are Contemporary Crises of Our Time Explicable Without Sociological Knowledge?

Date: June 2-3, 2022.

Venue: Centre for Social Sciences, 1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4.

The conference will be held in a hybrid format, allowing for both online and in person presentations and participation.

Participation in the conference is free of charge. Childcare is available on request (according to current epidemiological measures).

Security, environmental, political, economic and health crises of recent years have clearly shown that responses to crises depend to a large extent on the structures, cultures, attitudes, and power relations characterizing societies. There might have never been a greater need to understand and explain social phenomena, the behaviour of people and social groups and the operation of institutions. Still, what is the role of sociology today, when other disciplines such as psychology and economics have similar aims? What is the significance of sociology in shaping public debates today? How can sociology cooperate and find synergies with other scientific disciplines, including natural and life sciences? Our conference intends to provide an opportunity for the Hungarian sociological community to learn about and introduce the latest research results and methods, so that together we can find answers to the challenges our discipline faces.

Call for presentations

We welcome applications from all sociologists working in Hungary or in the Hungarian language area. The language of the conference will be mainly Hungarian, but presentations in English can also be accepted. With a special session, we also open the floor for PhD students, for whom mentoring will be provided.

You can apply for the conference either with an abstract matching the topic of one of the 16 sessions listed below, or with an abstract non-related to the listed topics. For the detailed description of the sessions, please click on the link below:

Detailed description of the sessions in Hungarian

  1. Mapping changing attitudes in the Hungarian society. 20 years of the European Social Survey in Hungary.
  2. The sociology of the housing crisis(es) in Hungary
  3. The position of sociology in the research of history
  4. The failure of sociology and social theoretical crisis diagnoses in the first half of the 20th century
  5. Care crisis in Hungary: challenges and responses
  6. Sociology of Youth
  7. Changing social networks, the relevance of social network characteristics in the time of COVID epidemic
  8. Why to care about rural sociology? Approaches, methods, concepts
  9. Why and how to do sociology of religion?
  10. Class/structure: what do we know about the class structure of the Hungarian society?
  11. Politics in decades of crises
  12. Reproductive choices and pronatalism in Europe
  13. Social innovation ecosystem: the role of sociological trainings and research
  14. The city, sociology
  15. Violent society – social expressions of violence and its control mechanisms
  16. PhD session
  17. Presentations not related to the listed sessions

Application deadline: March 15, 2022.

Evaluation, notification of applicants: April 15, 2022.

One can apply for presentation in the following ways:

1) Submitting an abstract (minimum 300 – maximum 500 words), indicating the section in which the applicant would like to present. Such as in the case of session applications, the evaluation of the applicants will be based on a double blind peer review system. The evaluation procedure will be conducted by the organiser of the session and another reviewer delegated by the conference committee.

The abstract should include the followings:

  • theoretical background
  • research question
  • methodology
  • key findings

Abstracts not containing the above listed parts or which are not sufficient in length will be rejected.

2) Independent abstracts, not related to any sessions, may also be submitted. The organisers reserve the right to arrange these papers thematically or to assign them to a session.

3) PhD students may apply in the above mentioned ways, or to the section specifically organised for PhD students. In the latter case, a mentor will be assigned to each PhD student applicant. The role of the mentor will be to help the student to help to improve the quality of the final abstract and the presentation.

Please submit your application using the form below. After the submission, we will send an automatic confirmation e-mail. If you do not receive such a confirmation e-mail, please contact szockonferencia@tk.hu.

Best papers will have the opportunity for publication in the journal socio.hu.

The final programme is drawn up by the conference committee. Members are Bernadett Csurgó, Judit Gárdos, Márton Gerő, Júlia Koltai, Luca Kristóf, Boldizsár Megyesi, Vera Messing. 

If you have any questions, please contact: szockonferencia@tk.hu

You can apply by clicking on the link below:

Why to Care About Sociology? - Are Contemporary Crises of Our Time Explicable Without Sociological Knowledge