Authors of the best publications of our institutes are acknowledged each year. On 5 March, 2025, Zsolt Boda, General Director, handed out the awards at the annual meeting of the Centre for Social Sciences, followed by brief presentations of the research findings.
We inform our partners that due to a government decision, our research centre was integrated into ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. As of 1 August 2025, our legal name is ELTE Centre for Social Sciences
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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
June 2026
Katona, N., & Gábriel, D. (2026). The quiet collapse: Authoritarian neoliberalism and the crisis of care of older people in Hungary. Economy and Society, 55(2), 301–323. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2026.2632445
May 2026
Written by Andrea Szabó, András Bozóki, and Zoltán Gábor Szűcs-Zágoni
March 2026
Benedek István (2026): Polarizing transition? Opposition strategies and the rise of Péter Magyar and the Respect and Freedom Party (TISZA) in Hungary. Comparative European Politics.
