August 2024
Principal investigator: Miklós Sebők
Established in 2012, the Centre for Social Sciences (CSS), a Centre of Excellence of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, is currently a partner in nine EU-funded projects within the frameworks of both Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. This amounts to over €1.3 million in funding for excellent and innovative research.
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CSS is part of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network, an independent public institution managed by a 13-member Governing Board and accountable to the Hungarian Parliament. CSS is classified as a public budgetary institution, making it eligible not only to submit proposals to any EU funding programme but also to participate in EU-funded projects as a coordinator, partner, or sole beneficiary.
Upcoming events
Speaker Series: Christian Baden
Featured news
The special issue of Intersections titled Unsettling Gender, Sexuality, and the European East/West Divisions was published.
Guest editors: Maria Mayerchyk, Olga Plakhotnik, and Jennifer Ramme.
Our Institute's research fellow presented about the good practices for tackling transport poverty in Hungary together with Lea Kőszeghy (CSS Institute for Sociology) on the 11th of December.
Research fellow Ana Stojilovska and project assistant Sára Szabó represented our Institute in the WISE Pan-European Conference which took place on the 6th of December 2024 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Vidra Zs., Virágh, E. A. (2024). "(In)visibilized? Roma in social, family and workfare policy discourses in the authoritarian neoliberal context of Hungary",International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-08-2024-0373 (Q1)
Kopasz, M., Győri, Á., Husz, I., & Medgyesi, M. (2024). Does attending to extremely poor clients increase the burnout of social workers? European Journal of Social Work, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2024.2367069 (Q1)
Eva Pfanzelter, Dirk Rupnow, Éva Kovács and Marianne Windsperger (eds) Connected Histories. Memories and Narratives of the Holocaust in Digital Space. De Gruyter&Oldenbourg 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111329154
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. RADOVI ZAVODA ZA HRVATSKU POVIJEST 55 : 1. p199-219. https://doi.org/10.17234/RadoviZHP.55.12
Kecskés Gábor, research fellow at the Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, will be conducting research at the world-famous prestigious Centre for Studies and Research of The Hague Academy of International Law in 2025.
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. International Journal of Sociology, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207659.2024.2420492 (Q1)
Ágnes Győri – Szilvia Ádám (2024). Profession-specific working conditions, burnout, engagement and turnover intention: the case of Hungarian social workers. Frontiers in Sociology, Vol. 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1487367 (Q1, IF: 2,0)
Our results
4 November, 2024
Expert workshop on 9 October, 2024
Manna, A., Koltai, J. & Karsai, M. Importance of social inequalities to contact patterns, vaccine uptake, and epidemic dynamics. Nature Communication 15, 4137 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48332-y
Ivett Szalma & Marieke Heers (2024) Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe. Understanding the Links Between Pronatalism and Voluntary Childlessness, International Journal of Sociology, DOI: 10.1080/00207659.2024.2319420
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. Social & Legal Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639241233939. Online first. Q1.
Zsolt Boda's latest paper
Judit Gárdos, Julia Egyed-Gergely, Anna Horváth, Balázs Pataki, Roza Vajda, András Micsik
Paper published in the Journal of Documentation, on 13 October 2023
