Current research projects

1. The structure of the Hungarian society

Mobility Research Center
Principal Investigator: Imre Kovách
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Give Kids A Chance Research Group (GKAC)
Principal Investigator: Ildikó Husz
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The school is not an island. Educational and community resilience in a multiethnic environment
Principal Investigator: Attila Papp
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Worker - Society - History: Social History of Labor and Hungarian Workers Society in the 20th Century from the Central European Comparative Point of View
Principal Investigator: Tibor Valuch
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Social mobility and ethnicity: Trajectories, outcomes and hidden Costs of Mobility
Principal Investigator: Judit Durst
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Circulation an Dissent in the Hungarian Cultural Elite
Principal Investigator: Kristóf Luca
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"Chinese person in the family," Chinese-Hungarian relations in Hungary in the light of interethnic relations and Hungarian couple child care providers' experiences with Chinese families
Principal Investigator: Nora Kovacs
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Researching Roma Communities Based on Modern Methodology in the 21st Century
Principal Investigator: Ernő Kállai
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2. Societal groups

Give Kids A Chance Research Group (GKAC)
Principal Investigator: Ildikó Husz
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The school is not an island. Educational and community resilience in a multiethnic environment
Principal Investigator: Attila Papp
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Families in mortgage crisis
Principal Investigator: Csizmady Adrienne
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Educational Models, Educational Strategies - Focus on Roma Community
Principal Investigator: Péter Bogdán
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Researching Roma Communities Based on Modern Methodology in the 21st Century
Principal Investigator: Ernő Kállai
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3. Family, children, gender roles, aging societies

Ideology and pragmatism in politics. The Second and Third Orbán Government's Family Policy
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The role of fathers in educating their separated children
Principal Investigator: Ivany Szalma
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Fertility awareness and the efficacy of the ferrite education
Principal Investigator: Ivash
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Institutional reforms in aging societies: legal and political aspects
Principal Investigator: Attila Bartha
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Career Models and Career Advancement in Labor Market Opportunities, Personal Network Building and Work-Life Balance
Principal Investigator: Katalin Tardos
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The impact of the restricitve abortion policy on infants health and socioeconomic one he outcomes of children and parents
Principal Investigator: Gabor Hajdu
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Social History of Homosexuality in 20th Century Hungary before 1990
Principal Investigator: Takács Judit
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4. Education and labor market

Give Kids A Chance Research Group (GKAC)
Principal Investigator: Ildikó Husz
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The school is not an island. Educational and community resilience in a multiethnic environment
Principal Investigator: Attila Papp
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Social mobility and ethnicity: Trajectories, outcomes and hidden Costs of Mobility
Principal Investigator: Judit Durst
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Educational Models, Educational Strategies - Focus on Roma Community
Principal Investigator: Péter Bogdán
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Quality of Jobs and Innovation Generated Employment Outcomes
Principal Investigator: Makó Csaba
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Career Models and Career Advancement in Labor Market Opportunities, Personal Network Building and Work-Life Balance
Principal Investigator: Katalin Tardos
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5. Elements of societal order

ERC No Sword Bites So Fiercely as an Evil Tongue? Gossip Wrecks Reputation, But Enhances Cooperation
Principal Investigator: Takács Károly
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Gossip, Reputation, and Cooperation: Informal Building Blocks of Social Order
Principal Investigator: Szabolcs Counting
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Competition and Negative Networks: The Origin, Dynamics, and Harmful Consequences of Negative Relations
Principal Investigator: Károly Takács
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History of memory in the East: the Hungarian case (1945-2004)
Principal Investigator: Matthew Zombory
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Cultural heritage, social cohesion and place attachment
Principal Investigator: Imre Kovách
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6. Institutions of state, their efficiency and impact on society

Cultural Opposition: Understanding the Cultural Heritage of the Former Socialist Countries (COURAGE)
Principal Investigator: Éva Kovács
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A szakszervezetek részvétele az európai szemeszter folyamatában
Principal Investigator: Albert Fruzsina
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How does the law adapt, resist, and learn? The responsiveness of the Hungarian legal system 2010-2018
Principal Investigator: Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz
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Intézményi reformok öregedő társadalmakban: jogi és politikai aspektusok
Principal Investigator: Bartha Attila
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Novelties of Criminal Law in Legal Consciousness
Principal Investigator: Hollán Miklós
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Consortional main: The Impact of Punitive Criminal Policy in Sentencing and Its Fiscal Effects
Principal Investigator: Tóth Mihály
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The Quality of Government and Public Policy: A Big Data Approach
Principal Investigator: Sebők Miklós
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Lack of Rights Consciousness in the Legal Cultures of Central-Europe and Balkans. Myth or Reality?
Principal Investigator: Fekete Balázs
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Judicial Constraints on Legislatures in Central Europe
Principal Investigator: Pócza Kálmán
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Policy dynamics in Hungary
Principal Investigator: Boda Zsolt
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Political Europe in the Making: The Consequences of the Politicization of the European Project
Principal Investigator: Szűcs Zoltán Gábor
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Policy Opportunities for Hungary in the European Union: the Analysis of the Legal Framework
Principal Investigator: Varju Márton
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Civil társadalom és a demokratikus intézmények minősége
Principal Investigator: Farkas Eszter
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A piacgazdaság jogi garanciái
Principal Investigator: Mezei Kitti
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7. Political attitude, participation, communication

Political communication in Hungary, 1990 to 2015 (Balázs Kiss)
Principal Investigator: Kiss Balázs
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Participation, Representation, Partisianship. Hungarian Election Study 2018
Principal Investigator: Szabó Andrea
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Surveying the protesters: standardizing methodology and building an online panel of protesters
Principal Investigator: Mikecz Dániel
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Legislator activities and electoral performance
Principal Investigator: Papp Zsófia
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Mapping the radical right populism and their discourses in public spheres: the case of Romania and Hungary
Principal Investigator: Szabó Gabriella
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Populism in policy-making
Principal Investigator: Bartha Attila
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A pártos polarizáció okai és hatásai az európai demokráciákban
Principal Investigator: Patkós Veronika
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Explaining welfare attitudes: general moral principles, issue framing and surves design
Principal Investigator: Janky Béla
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Populism in Policy-making and Law-making
Principal Investigator: Boda Zsolt
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The Paradox of Political Realism
Principal Investigator: Zoltán Balázs
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8. Responsible urban planning, sustainable rural development, environment protection

The sociology of urban planning – urban planning and society
Principal Investigator: Csizmady Adrienne
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Families in mortgage crisis
Principal Investigator: Csizmady Adrienne
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The effect of agricultural and rural development policy on local small-scale agri-food production
Principal Investigator: Megyesi Boldizsár
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Societal challenges of energy use
Principal Investigator: Kőszeghy Lea
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9. Minorities within and beyond the border, minority question in Europe, migration

Székely Self-Image Construction in the 19-20th Century
Principal Investigator: Bárdi Nándor
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Hungarian Minority Communities in the 20th Century (the publication of historical sources and chronologies)
Principal Investigator: Bárdi Nándor
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The Internal Dynamics of Non-Territorial Autonomy Regimes in Central and South-eastern Europe: a Five-Country Comparison
Principal Investigator: Dobos Balázs
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The local and regional activity of German organizations in Hungary between 1924 and 1945.
Principal Investigator: Eiler Ferenc
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Germans in Hungary, 1950-1990
Principal Investigator: Tóth Ágnes
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Bilateral relations and minority protection in Central and South-Eastern Europe
Principal Investigator: Vízi Balázs
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Enhancing Minority Rights Using Group Litigation in Europe (EMULE)
Principal Investigator: Körtvélyesi Zsolt
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Using Collective Procedures to Enforce Minority Group Claims
Principal Investigator: Körtvélyesi Zsolt
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The Institutionalization of Ethnic Economy among Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia
Principal Investigator: Csata Zsombor
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The minority question in Hungarian-Romanian diplomatic relations during the premiership of István Bethlen
Principal Investigator: Marchut Réka
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The media representation of Roma/Gypsy communities
Principal Investigator: Vera Messing
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Mobility and Inclusion in Multilingual Europe
Principal Investigator: Vizi Balázs
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Magyar diaszpóra és diaszpóra-politika
Principal Investigator: Kovács Eszter
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A globális hierarchiák poszt-koloniális és poszt-szocialista percepciója: a hollandiai indonézek és magyarok esete
Principal Investigator: Hunyadi Márton
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Magyarok Németországban
Principal Investigator: Feischmidt Margit
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Genezys 2015. Kárpát-medencei ifjúságkutatás
Principal Investigator: Papp Z. Attila
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A kisebbségi civil-nonprofit szervezetek működési sajátosságai Magyarországon, Romániában és Szlovákiában
Principal Investigator: Morauszki András
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"die helfte hier und die helfte zu hause" A magyarországi németek története, 1944-1953. Dokumentumkötet.
Principal Investigator: Tóth Ágnes
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Zsidó oktatás és gyermekintézmények Magyarországon, 1945-1956
Principal Investigator: Bányai Viktória
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A jiddis kultúra története Magyarországon
Principal Investigator: Komoróczy Szonja
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10. Computational social science, social media, Big Data

Computational Social Science

Regulatory issues of the internet intermediaries (Zsolt Ződi)
Principal Investigator: Ződi Zsolt
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Uncovering Patterns of Social Inequalities and Imbalances in Large-Scale Networks
Principal Investigator: Ságvári Bence
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The Life Cycle of an Online Social Network: Big Data Analysis
Principal Investigator: Ságvári Bence
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Algorithmed Public Spheres
Principal Investigator: Ságvári Bence
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11. New methods in social science research

Computational Social Science

Text Mining and Quantitative Analysis of Political and Legal Texts
Principal Investigator: Miklós Sebők
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(Dis) continuities-Hungarian Sociology between 1960 and 2010
Principal Investigator: Éva Kovács
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Empirical Research and Law - Classification of Legal Systems Using Indices
Principal Investigator: Bence Ságvári
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