Social Dynamics in the post-Covid age. Inequalities, integration, migration in regional, urban and rural context
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Publication Awards 2025
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.
Announcement
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
Featured news
Zsuzsa Árendás (2022): Under the long shadow of working-class origins. “The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged” by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison. Policy Press & Bristol University Press, 2020. Book Review
Institute for Sociology
Zsuzsa Árendás (2022): Under the long shadow of working-class origins. “The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged” by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison. Policy Press & Bristol University Press, 2020. Book Review. Intersections East European Journal of Society and Politics, Volume 8 Issue 2, 197-200. (Q3)
Ákos Huszár – Karolina Balogh – Ágnes Győri (2022): Educational mobility at the top and the bottom of the social structure in Hungary
Institute for Sociology
Ákos Huszár – Karolina Balogh – Ágnes Győri (2022): Educational mobility at the top and the bottom of the social structure in Hungary. Intersections East European Journal of Society and Politics, Volume 8 Issue 2, 138-155. (Q3)
Zsuzsanna Árendás – Vera Messing (2022): ‘I was told the position has already been filled’ Barriers to mobility and coping strategies of highly qualified Roma youth on their way to the business sector in Hungary
Institute for Sociology
Zsuzsanna Árendás – Vera Messing (2022): ‘I was told the position has already been filled’ Barriers to mobility and coping strategies of highly qualified Roma youth on their way to the business sector in Hungary. Intersections East European Journal of Society and Politics, Volume 8 Issue 2, 41-58. (Q3)
Judit Durst – Ákos Huszár (2022): Individual success, collective failure? The process and consequences of social (im)mobility in neo-liberal times
Institute for Sociology
Judit Durst – Ákos Huszár (2022): Individual success, collective failure? The process and consequences of social (im)mobility in neo-liberal times. Intersections East European Journal of Society and Politics, Volume 8 Issue 2, 1-11. (Q3)
Social Mobility. The latest issue of Intersections is out
Centre for Social Sciences
New Publication: Science and Vaccine Scepticism in Light of Political Ideologies and Partisanship during the Third COVID-19 Wave in Hungary
Institute for Political Science
The paper "When Ideology Matters More - Science and Vaccine Scepticism in Light of Political Ideologies and Partisanship during the Third COVID-19 Wave in Hungary." by Eszter Farkas, Balázs Böcskei and Andrea Szabó is published in Politics in Central Europe.
Immler, Nicole – Kovács, Éva (2022) Zum politischen Anspruch der Oral History. Über das epistemische Schweigen und die ontologische Taubheit der Mehrheitsgesellschaft
Institute for Sociology
Immler, Nicole – Kovács, Éva (2022) Zum politischen Anspruch der Oral History. Über das epistemische Schweigen und die ontologische Taubheit der Mehrheitsgesellschaft. FQS Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 23(2), Art. 2, (IF: 1.53, Q1)
Social Structure and Inequalities Through the Lens of Digital Data - Júlia Koltai's proposal receiving Lendület (Momentum) grant
Centre for Social Sciences
Bernadett Csurgó, Melanie K. Smith (2022): Cultural Heritage, Sense of Place and Tourism: An Analysis of Cultural Ecosystem Services in Rural Hungary
Institute for Sociology
Bernadett Csurgó, Melanie K. Smith (2022): Cultural Heritage, Sense of Place and Tourism: An Analysis of Cultural Ecosystem Services in Rural Hungary. Sustainability Vol 14, no. 12: 7305. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127305 (Q1, IF: 3.251)
Our results
Trust in science, knowledge and risk perception as predictors of COVID-19 vaccination
Caring communities in senior care. New paper by Noémi Katona and Dóra Gábriel
Recently published: Dorottya Szikra et al: How Populists Governed the COVID-19 Pandemic
Identity, Belonging, and the Law. Edited by András László Pap et al.
New publication. We’re not heroes, we’re just doing our job: analysis of social workers’ discourses about their profession in online communities
New paper: Compromising Priests and Nuns Under State Socialism
Illiberal Social Policy in Europe. New paper by Dorottya Szikra
9 July, 2025
Szikra, D., & Autischer, L. (2025). Illiberal Social Policy in Europe: When Policy Implementation Meets Welfare Ideas. Politics and Governance, 13, Article 9707. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.9707
Urban Planning in the Context of Democratic Backsliding
Recently published (17.06.2025):
Kőszeghy Lea, Hilbert Bálint, & Csizmady Adrienne (2025). Urban Planning in the Context of Democratic Backsliding: The Case of Hungary. Urban Planning, Vol 10 (2025): The Role of Planning in ’Anti-Democratic’ Times. Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press. 0.592 (Q1), IF 1.7 (2024)
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