The latest issue of Intersections. EEJSP is now out
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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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Call for papers: The reenchantment of culture and flexible citizenship in a hardening world. Ideology and life strategies in middle-class migration to Europe and beyond
Institute for Minority Studies
Workshop at the Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest in co-operation with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 26 November 2021. Abstracts should sent to Nyíri Pál, p.d.nyiri(*)vu.nl, by 30 August 2021.
Call for job applications: International Funding Officer
Centre for Social Sciences
Hajdu, Gábor – Hajdu, Tamás (2021): The long-term impact of restricted access to abortion on children’s socioeconomic outcomes
Institute for Sociology
The paper can be read in the PLOS ONE journal (IF: 2.740) >>> Gábor Hajdu – Tamás Hajdu (2021): The long-term impact of restricted access to abortion on children’s socioeconomic outcomes. PLOS ONE, 16(3)
Pubilication: Márton Bene's article in Journal of Information Technology & Politics
Institute for Political Science
Márton Bene has published an article entitled "Topics to talk about. The effects of political topics and issue ownership on user engagement with politicians’ Facebook posts during the 2018 Hungarian general election" in the Journal of Information Technology & Politics.
Publication: Rudolf Metz's article
Institute for Political Science
Rudolf Metz has published an article entitled "Democratic leadership as a political weapon: competition between fictions and practices" in the International Journal of Public Leadership
Early Stage Researcher position: ESR7 - Housing crisis and its impact on adequate housing
Centre for Social Sciences
New Publication: András Bíró-Nagy's article
Institute for Political Science
András Bíró-Nagy has published an article entitled “Orbán’s political jackpot: migration and the Hungarian electorate” in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
The special issue of Socio.hu has been published :: The sociology of architecture. Theories, methods and subjects
Institute for Sociology
The latest issue of Intersections EEJSP has been published
Centre for Social Sciences
Our results
New book: The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Law in Europe
13 May, 2025
The book The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Law in Europe published recently by Springer was edited by Márton Varju and Kitti Mezei, as part of the book series Data Science, Machine Intelligence, and Law.
Measuring attitudes towards voluntary childlessness: Indicators in European comparative surveys
20 March, 2025
New publication:
Szalma I, Heers M, Tanturri ML (2025) Measuring attitudes towards voluntary childlessness: Indicators in European comparative surveys. PLOS ONE 20(3): e0319081. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319081
Mental health risk in human services work across Europe: the predictive role of employment in various sectors
New publication: Ágnes Győri, Éva Perpék, Szilvia Ádám: Mental health risk in human services work across Europe: the predictive role of employment in various sectors. Frontiers in Public Health-ben (Q1, IF: 3)
30 January, 2025
WISE project and OTKA research: Collective for women for solidarity in energy and the energy crisis in Hungary
4 November, 2024
Transport poverty in Hungary
Expert workshop on 9 October, 2024
Long-term impact of unhealthy food tax on consumption and the drivers behind: A longitudinal study in Hungary
Importance of social inequalities to contact patterns, vaccine uptake, and epidemic dynamics
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
The role of digital status in adult child–parent relationships in European comparative perspective
Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe. New publication by Ivett Szalma
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
Anti-pluralism, labour market policy and the pandemic: Political uses and social consequences of COVID-19 in Hungary
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.