The Centre for Social Sciences

The Centre for Social Sciences conducts basic research in political science, sociology, minority studies and law. Further information »

The Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies

The Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies

The Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies

The Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies

The Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies

Centre for Social Sciences Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory

BABELGLOB project received funding from EXCELLENCE (National Research Excellence) Programme

August 2024
Principal investigator: Miklós Sebők

Centre for Social Sciences in H2020 and Horizon Europe

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.

Learn more about our EU funded projects:

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.

Who we are, how we work, what we do

Upcoming events

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Zuzanna Brunarska : Family Influences on Migration Intentions – The Role of Past Experience of Involuntary (Im)mobility

Institute for Sociology

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WISE project – Women for Solidarity in Energy workshop

Centre for Social Sciences

1107

Workshop - Constitutional Interpretation in Emergencies in Europe

Institute for Legal Studies

1126

Speaker Series: Dániel Kovarek

Institute for Political Science

Featured news

Are you interested in visiting an ERC grantee and collaborating with our research team?

Computational Social Science

Are you interested in visiting an ERC grantee and collaborating with our research team?

We are happy to host visiting scholars who are working on the topics that match our interests in the research funded by an ERC Grant. We use various methods that include agent-based models, advanced models of network dynamics, and text analytics to study the relationship between gossip, reputation, and cooperation. Please consult our homepage for further information on the project.

Solidarity with refugees in the European civil society

Institute for Minority Studies

Workshop and closing event of the project Social conflicts and identity politics

Researchable, digitized archive of the New York-based Hungarian Human Rights Foundation's (HHRF) is available

Institute for Minority Studies

Now available: The Principle of Effective Legal Protection in Administrative Law

Institute for Legal Studies

Fulbright scholar Jan Marie Fritz at the Institute for Sociology, CSS HAS

Institute for Sociology

Messing, Vera – Bereményi, Ábel Bálint (2016) Is ethnicity a meaningful category of employment policies for Roma? A comparative case study of Hungary and Spain

Institute for Sociology

In: Ethnic and Racial Studies (Taylor and Francis). Download here >>

“Artificial Towns” in the 21st Century: Social Polarisation in the New Town Regions of East-Central Europe (Ed. Viktória Szirmai, 2016)

Institute for Sociology

Our results

Long-term impact of unhealthy food tax on consumption and the drivers behind: A longitudinal study in Hungary

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. Health Policy, 105098.

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

Völgyi, B., Füzér, K., Albert, F., & Erát, D. (2024) The role of digital status in adult child–parent relationships in European comparative perspective. Families, Relationships and Societies (published online ahead of print 2024).

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.

New publication: Solidarity with displaced People from Ukraine in Hungary

Zakariás, I., Feischmidt, M., Gerő, M. et al. Solidarity with Displaced People from Ukraine in Hungary: Attitudes and Practices. Int. Migration & Integration (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-023-01096-8

Shrinking space. The changing political opportunities of advocacy groups in illiberal governance

Zsolt Boda's latest paper

Identification of social scientifically relevant topics in an interview repository: a natural language processing experiment

Judit Gárdos, Julia Egyed-Gergely, Anna Horváth, Balázs Pataki, Roza Vajda, András Micsik
Paper published in the Journal of Documentation, on 13 October 2023

Beyond multidirectional memory: Opening pathways to politics and solidarity

15 June, 2023
Recently published:
Kékesi, Z., & Zombory, M. (2023). Beyond multidirectional memory: Opening pathways to politics and solidarity. Memory Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231176040

Illés–Körösényi: The touch of the leader. Representation and responsiveness in plebiscitary leader democracy

June 2023

Gábor Illés & András Körösényi (2023) The touch of the leader: representation and responsiveness in plebiscitary leader democracy, Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2023.2220086