Felvételi

A felvételi határidő, a jelentkezési lap és a beadandó dokumentumok listája az oldal alján lévő “ÁLTALÁNOS FELVÉTELI INFORMÁCIÓ” gombra kattintva érhető el.

Az alábbi információ kizárólag a hallgatók meghallgatására és értékelésére vonatkozik.

(1) Jelentkezőknek a kutatási tervet angol nyelven kell benyújtani. A szóbeli interjú nyelve az angol. 

(2) A jelentkezés során beadandó kutatási terv elvárt terjedelme: legalább 10.000, legfeljebb 20.000 karakter hivatkozásokkal együtt. 

(3) A Doktori Iskolába jelentkezőknek meg kell jelölniük az általuk választott programot. A jelentkezőt az adott programhoz tartozó felvételi bizottság felvételizteti. 

(4) Ha a jelentkező mindkét programot megjelöli, akkor a Doktori Iskola vezetője és a felvételi bizottságok döntik el, melyik program illetékessége a felvételi folyamat lefolytatása. Ha mindkét program illetékesnek tartja magát, a jelentkező részt vehet mindkét program felvételi eljárásában. Ebben az esetben a jelentkező két kutatási tervet is benyújthat. 

(5) A felvételi eljárás során a program felvételi bizottság: 

• a) áttekinti és értékeli a pályázati anyagban dokumentált előzetes teljesítményeket (tanulmányi eredmények, kutatási tapasztalatok, publikációs teljesítmény, valamint az elvégzett képzések illeszkedése a program szakterületéhez); 
• b) áttekinti és értékeli a benyújtott kutatási tervet (a kutatási terv kidolgozottsága, a kutatási téma relevanciája, a téma illeszkedése a doktori program szakmai profiljához); 
• c) személyes vagy online interjút folytat a jelentkezővel, és ennek során értékeli a pályázó nyelvtudását, kommunikációs készségeit, szakmai felkészültségét. 

Megjegyzések 

* Itt lehet figyelembe venni a TDK és OTDK dolgozatokat és helyezéseket 

** A kutatási tervbe fektetett munkát kell megítélni, függetlenül a relevanciától és kivitelezhetőségtől     

Proposed by Ágnes Veszelszki, Institute of Communication and Sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest 

Description 

With the change in the role of the print media and the growing importance of citizen journalism, news competition has accelerated, and both professional content producers and content creators are facing new ways of information manipulation. The applicant investigates the implications of the so-called data capitalism, as well as the ways how the users of (social) media are influenced by misleading information (fake news, pseudo-scientific content, conspiracy theories, deepfake), and what the media user can do against manipulative information. 

Literature 

Amazeen, M. A. – Bucy, E. P. 2019: Conferring resistance to digital disinformation: The inoculating influence of procedural news knowledge. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 63: 415–432. 

Gelfert, Axel 2018: Fake News: A Definition. Informal Logic 38/1: 84–117. 

Rizeq, Jala – Flora, David B. – Toplak, Maggie E. 2020: An examination of the underlying dimensional structure of three domains of contaminated mindware: paranormal beliefs, conspiracy beliefs, and anti-science attitudes. Thinking & Reasoning. DOI: 10.1080/13546783.2020.1759688 

Veszelszki, Ágnes 2018: Like Economy: What is the Economic Value of Likes? Society and Economy 40/3: 417–429. DOI: 10.1556/204.2018.40.3.8 

Vraga, Emily K. – Tully, Melissa – Bode, Leticia 2020: Empowering Users to Respond to Misinformation about Covid-19. Media and Communication 8/2: 475–479. DOI: 10.17645/mac.v8i2.3200

Proposed by Rita Glózer PhD, associate professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Pécs 

Description

As reflected in several media theories, users’ participation has become a central phenomenon of the digital media over the last decades. Considering the changing roles of media users, participatory culture theory focuses on the ways private persons (amateurs) participate in producing media content. While the concept is increasingly debated because of its ideological basis, and large number of scientific analysis criticizes the existing (mainstream) forms of participating as well, the creative, unique and unexpected forms of participation have multiplied. Adopting the cultural studies approach, the concept of participatory culture and its critiques (mainly from the fields of critical theory and the political economy of the media) provide a complex theoretical framework for investigating and interpreting newest forms of users’ participation on digital media platforms.

Literature 

JENKINS, HENRY 2006. Convergence Culture. Where Old and New Media Collide. New York – London, New York University Press. 

FUCHS, CHRISTIAN 2014. Social Media: A Critical Introduction. London, Sage 

VAN DIJCK, JOSÉ 2013. The Culture of Connectivity. A Critical History of Social Media. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 

Glózer Rita (2020): Instavers. Médiakutató 20(1) 67-77. 

Glózer Rita (2016): Internetes paródiavideók és ifjúsági médiahasználat. Replika 100(5) 131-150. 

Glózer Rita (2015): Részvétel és kollaboráció az új médiában. Replika 90-91(1-2) 117-139

Proposed by Andrea Kárpáti, Corvinus University, Institute of Communication and Sociology 

Description 

Research on a chosen genre (medium) of visual communication: evolution of new genres, effects of technologies, communication theories related to meaning making in communicating through images. Types of studies and research environments: • cultural anthropological study of a contemporary culture or youth group; • case studies of individuals characterized by high level of visual communication (talent research), • educational assessment of visual communication skills of a school-age group (6-18 years); • validity study of a formal or informal educational development program on visual communication The Visual Culture Research Group at the Institute of Communication and Sociology of CUB provides support in finding an adequate research environment, and shares online and paper based testing infrastructure. 

Literature 

Allen, Mike (2017): Visual Communication Studies. In: Allen, Mike Ed. (2017): The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483381411.n669 

Lapenta, F. (2011). Some Theoretical and Methodological Views on Photo-Elicitation. In L. Pauwels, & E. Margolis (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods (pp. 201-213). London, UK: SAGE Publications.

Lomax, H., & Fink, J. (Accepted/In press). Understanding Online Images: Content, context and circulation as analytic foci. In D. Mannay, & L. Pauwels (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods (2 ed.). SAGE Publications. 

Mannay, Dawn (2018): Visual Methodologies for Communication Studies: making the familiar Strange and interesting again. Estudos em Comunicação 19 , pp. 61-78. http://ec.ubi.pt/ec/19/pdf/n19a04.pdf 

Margolis, Eric & Pauwels, Luc (2011): The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446268278 c. kötetből: Framing the Field of Visual Research; Producing Visual Data and Insight; -Participatory and Subject-Centered Approaches; Visualization Technologies and Practices; Options and Issues for Using and Presenting Visual Research. e-book, Google: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AcBsjtkmPWkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&ganpub=k186085&ganclk=GOOG_GB_1468668184&hl=hu#v=onepage&q&f=false

Proposed by Andrea Kárpáti, Corvinus University, Institute of Communication and Sociology 

Description 

Museum 1.0 focused on conserving an researching the objects in its keep; Museum 2.0 integrated multi- and hypermedia to offer high level cultural edutainment, and today, Museum 3.0 is interactive and invites visitors to share their experiences and enrich collections with their views. Doctoral research in this rich and diverse area is not restricted to museum and gallery experiences, but encompasses the whole spectrum of exhibiting products of our culture: trade fairs and expos of innovations as well as science cafés. Types of studies and research environments: evaluation and innovation of exhibition communication methodology of results / products of science, technology, arts and design experience design and assessment of visitor experience (visitor studies) case studies of visual, written, oral and multimedia communication of exhibitions educational assessment of museum learning of children, youth, adults and seniors; validity study of informal educational programs in diverse exhibition facilities. This theme is connected to the Acting on the Margins: Arts as Social Sculpture (AMASS) HORIZON2020 research project (2020-2023) co-ordinated by the Visual Culture Research Group of the Institute of Communication and Sociology of CUB. Depending on the envisaged objectives, population and venue types to be studied, we may provide support in finding an adequate research environment, and shares online and paper based research infrastructure. 

Literature 

Filippoupoliti, A. (2010). Science Exhibitions: Communication & Evaluation. Edinburgh: MuseumsEtc. Contents and Preface: https://www.academia.edu/1399430/A_Filippoupoliti_ed_Science_Exhibitions_Communication_and_Evaluation_Edinburgh_MuseumsEtc_2010 

Kárpáti, A. & Vásárhelyi, T. (2013). Exhibition communication. Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University. https://regi.tankonyvtar.hu/hu/tartalom/tamop412A/2011-0073_exhibition_communication/ch02.html 

Leister, W., Tjostheim, I., Schulz, T., dr Biris, M. (2016). Assessing Visitor Engagement in Science Centres and Museums. International Journal on Advances in Life Sciences, 8(1&2), 50-64. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305000820_Assessing_Visitor_Engagement_in_Science_Centres_and_Museums 

Nielsen, J. (2017). Museum communication and storytelling: articulating understandings within the museum structure. Museum Management and Curatorship, 32(5), 440-455. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09647775.2017.1284019?needAccess=true 

Shamsidar, A., Yusoff, M., Abbas, M., Zafrullah, M., Taib Mawar Masri, M. (2014). Museum exhibition design: communication of meaning and the shaping of knowledge. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences. 153(16) , 254-265. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042814055013

Proposed by Rita Glózer PhD, associate professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Pécs 

Description 

Discourses are involved in formulation and reproduction of socially significant topics, interpretations of and attitudes towards them. Thereby, investigations of discourses both in the public and private spheres encourage a deeper understanding of how key issues in society are shaped. Discourse analytical approaches offer both context-sensitive theoretical frameworks and appropriate sets of data collection methods and analytical tools for investigating text corpuses and strategies of social actors as well. Considering the basically strategic nature of social discourses, this approach can be successfully applied in examinations of current issues (racism, populist nationalism, construction of identity) in today’s Hungarian public sphere. 

Literature 

Wodak, Ruth – Meyer, Michael eds. (2016): Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis (Introducing Qualitative Methods series) SAGE 

Gee, James Paul – Handford, Michael eds. (2014): The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Routledge 

Feischmidt Margit – Glózer Rita – Ilyés Zoltán – Kasznár Veronika Katalin – Zakariás Ildikó (2014): Nemzet a mindennapokban. Az újnacionalizmus populáris kultúrája. L’Harmattan, Budapest. 

Glózer Rita (2007): Diszkurzív módszerek in. Kovács Éva (szerk.): Közösségtanulmány. Budapest-Pécs, 260-268.

Proposed by Réka Benczes, Institute of Communication and Sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest 

Description 

The role of metaphor and metonymy in shaping public discourse 

Literature 

Benczes, Réka. 2019. Visual metonymy and framing in political communication. In: Kristóf Nyíri and András Benedek (eds.), Image and Metaphor in the New Century: Perspectives on Visual Learning, vol. 3. Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences & Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 17–28. 

Benczes, Réka and Kate Burridge. 2018. Speaking of disease and death. In: Keith Allan (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 61–76.

Benczes, István and Réka Benczes. 2018. From financial support package via rescue aid to bailout: Framing the management of the Greek sovereign debt crisis. Society and Economy 40 (3): 431-445.

Proposed by Réka Benczes, Institute of Communication and Sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest 

Description 

How word meaning reflects our conceptualizations about the world 

Literature 

Benczes, Réka. 2006. Creative Compounding in English. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 

Benczes, Réka. 2019. Rhyme over Reason: Phonological Motivation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Benczes, Réka. 2019. Morphology and Lexical Semantics. In: Rochelle Lieber (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.618

Téma kiíró: Bárdi Nándor Társadalomtudományi Kutatóközpont Kisebbségkutató Intézet

Leírás

Tömegkommunikációs Kutatóközpont történelmi-, nemzettudat-, értékvizsgálatai 1972-1991. A meglévő publikált és levéltári források nyomán ezen vizsgálatok anyagának feldolgozása, újraértelmezése.

Irodalom

http://real-j.mtak.hu/5607/1/JelKep_2010_3-4.pdf

A határon túli magyarok magyarországi állami költségvetési támogatása érdekében a Németh-kormány Etnikai és Nemzetiségi Kollégiumának Titkársága hozta létre 1990. áprilisában „A határon túli magyarságért alapítványt”, majd ez 1990 júniusától „Illyés Alapítvány” néven működött. Az alapító okirat szerint (1990. szeptember 29.) az alapítvány fő célja az, hogy támogassa a határon túl élő magyar közösségeket és a szórvány magyarságot: a) a határon túli magyarság önazonosságának megőrzését, fejlődését és megerősödését célzó kezdeményezéseket; b) az anyanyelv ápolását, fejlesztését szolgáló kezdeményezéseket; c) a határon túli magyarságot érintő tudományos munkát; d) az anyanyelvű hitélet tárgyi és személyi feltételeinek javítását; e) a határon túli magyar kisebbségek hazai kulturális bemutatóit. Az Illyés Közalapítvány Kuratóriuma (11-19 taggal a parlamenti pártok és a külügyi, oktatási, művelődési tárca képviselői) az éves költségvetés forrásaiból kereteket különített el (25-50%) az egyes szomszédos országok magyar közösségeinek adott évi támogatására, s az ezek további felosztására vonatkozó javaslattételre a magyar kisebbségi érdekvédelmi szervezetek dominálta alkuratóriumok kaptak mandátumot. Ezek tevékenysége a különböző támogatási területek (kultúra, közművelődés, oktatás, tudomány, egyházi és szakmai szervezetek, önkormányzatok stb.) összességére kiterjedt. Az érintett kisebbségi intézmények részvételével Szlovákiában, Romániában, Szerbiában az alkuratórium mögött szaktestületek is működtek (a három régióban 40-50 taggal, Ukrajnában és Szerbiában csak az alkuratóriumok léteztek, így összesen kb. 300 személy vett részt a döntéselőkészítésben).  

Proposed by György Lengyel, Institute of Communication and Sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest

Description 

This broad topic is about the attitudes of economic and social actors, including elites, entrepreneurs and employees. The general questions are how do material, social and cultural resources influence attitudes and what is the role of attitudes in the formation of life chances. The main sites of our theoretically driven empirical research are the followings: – Elites, media and public opinion in the EU – Subjective well-being, dignity, aspirations and fears – Deliberative research on sustainable development Ideally the proposal in substantive terms is related to one of the problems above and relies among others on secondary analysis of surveys like WVS, EVS, ESS, SOEP or other data available in databanks. Qualitative research is also welcome where appropriate. The proposal may be connected with the Mediatized EU research and other projects at CESR. https://www.uni-corvinus.hu/main-page/research/research-centres/centre-for-empirical-social-research/?lang=en 

Literature 

Lengyel Gy. 2012 Potential Entrepreneurs. CEST, Bp. Göncz B. et al.(eds) 2012 Migrants and the Hungarian Society. Dignity, Justice and Civic Integration. CESR, Bp. Best, H. et al. (eds) 2012 The Europe of Elites, OUP, Oxford

Proposed by Zoltán Oszkár Szántó, Institute of Communication and Sociology, CUB 

Description and Literature

www.socialfuturing.com

Proposed by Zsuzsanna Géring, Future of Higher Education Research Centre, Budapest Business School 

Description

Discourse analysis can be treated both as a theoretical framework and as a methodological approach that concentrates on language in use and focuses on the functions that discourse plays in our social world at different (individual, interactive, and social) levels. Its field is complex and diverse from the examination of speech patterns in individual sentences to the examination of social power and suppression in clusters of news. This means that discourse analysis is not a singular methodological process but rather a collection of approaches and methodological tools with shared theoretical background. Nevertheless, none of these attributes indicates that it should be rendered solely to the qualitative paradigm. 

In our approach, mixed methodological discourse analysis is a methodological standpoint in the field of discourse analysis. Its main feature is the incorporation of quantitative and qualitative processes into the analysis of discourses. 

Applying discourse analyses in a mixed methods research study is appropriate when discourse in itself is the topic of the examination. That is, when the analysis of textual data is not a phase of the research with which we would like to gain information about something else, but when we would like to analyse the textual data exactly to understand how the actors produce meaning, identity, opposition, power relations, or how a given phenomenon is constructed in the given texts. 

We focus on especially the discursive strategies applied in organizational communication, especially in the higher education (HE) sector. One of our actual research examines the textual features and discursive structure of online public communication of higher education institutions (HEI). 

Interested PhD-students may join the recently launched research project titled ‘Future of business education’ (FK127972). This project aims to investigate what HEIs communicate on their websites about their social role and their approach to the future. We apply mixed methodological discourse analysis on a large corpus of internationally leading HEIs’ website-texts. 

Literature 

Baker, P., Gabrielatos, C., Khosravinik, M., Krzyzanowski, M., Mcenery T., & Wodak, R. (2008). A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press. Discourse & Society, 19, 273-306. doi: 10.1177/0957926508088962 

Géring Zs. (2015) Content versus discourse analysis. Examination of corporate social responsibility in companies’ homepage-texts. In SAGE Research Methods Cases. London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications, Ltd. doi: 10.4135/978144627305014556732 

Johansen, C. B. – De Cock, B (2018). Ideologies of time: How elite corporate actors engage the future. Organization, 25, 186–204. doi: 10.1177/1350508417725592

Proposed by Dr Peter Robert, CSc 

Description 

Studying (subjective) well-being has received a rising attention from the viewpoint of social, economic and political issues, particularly since the so-called Stiglitz report has been completed. For interested PhD candidates, an opportunity is offered to study satisfaction, happiness and its social determinants among children and / or among adult population. Two internationally comparative datasets are available for the purpose: 

a) Data on children aged between 8 and 16 http://www.isciweb.org/ 

b) European Social Survey data, 1-9 rounds, biannually fielded until 2018 http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/ 

The broad topic is narrowed and made more specific in discussion with the PhD candidate based on his/her interest and the availability of the data. 

Children in school: Well-Being and beyond, project NN 15715 by NKFI, principal investigator: Peter Robert, TARKI Social Research Institute European Social Survey (ESS), international project, in Hungary fielded by TARKI Social Research Institute 

Literature 

Bradshaw, J. (2015). Subjective well-being and social policy: Can nations make their children happier? Child Indicators Research, 8, 1, 227-241. 

Diener, E. (1984). Subjective well-being. Psychological Bulletin, 95, 3, 542-575. 

Rees, G. and Main, G. (eds.) (2015). Children’s views on their lives and well-being in 15 countries: An initial report on the Children’s Worlds survey, 2013-14. York, UK: Children’s Worlds Project (ISCWeB). 

Róbert, P. and Szabó, L. (2020). Children’s Worlds National Report – Hungary https://isciweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Hungary-National-Report-Wave-3.pdf 

Stiglitz, J. E., Sen, A., Fitoussi, J. P. (2009). Report by the Commission on the measurement of economic performance and social progress. Commission on the measurement of economic performance and social progress, Paris http://www.stiglitz-sen-fitoussi.fr/documentsrapport_anglais.pdf

Proposed by Lilla Vicsek, Institute of Communication and Sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest 

Description 

Our research team is investigating visions on the future of work and artificial intelligence and the role these visions play. The project’s approach goes beyond hyped, polarized popular views in the debate on the future of work, and maintains that these often downplay uncertainty and the role how the social can shape the technical. The project works with traditional sociological methods (mostly interviews), as well as with Future Studies methods. We are looking for a Ph.D. student who would be interested in pursuing a topic related to the focus of the project. 

Visions of Artificial Intelligence and Society – funded by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund 

Literature 

Vicsek, L. (2020), “Artificial intelligence and the future of work – lessons from the sociology of expectations”, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-05-2020-0174 

Boyd, R. and Holton, R.J. (2018), “Technology, innovation, employment and power: does robotics and artificial intelligence really mean social transformation?”, Journal of Sociology, Vol. 54 No. 3, pp. 331-345. 

Pulkka, V.-V. (2019), “This time may be a little different” – exploring the Finnish view on the future of work”, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 39 Nos 1/2, pp. 22-37.

Proposed by Ivett Szalma Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of Public Policy and Management; Centre for Social Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence 

Description 

Becoming a parent is an important life event which became more and more planed in most of people’s life course due to the modern contraception and infertility treatments in most of the developed countries (Dereuddre et al. 2016, Szalma and Djuendeva 2019). However, there are many modern family planning possibilities we have not reached that state in which all people come as close as possible to their desired number of children in most of the European countries. Especially, in the Eastern European region there are the greatest fertility gap between desired and realized children. For example, Spéder and Kapitány (2014) showed that comparing five European countries regarding the realization of childbearing intentions much lower chances were found in the Eastern European countries than in the Western European societies. The unrealized fertility intention seems to be a key aspect of post-communist fertility transition, which might have been explained by the fundamental social, economic and cultural transformation (Ridere and Buber 2018, Spéder and Kapitány 2014). 

Parenthood is revealed as an essentially fragmented status and one which is intertwined in complex ways with the biological, legal, cultural and political contexts in which discourses of parenthood are produced. Based on the different dimensions of entering or skipping parenthood we can see that there are different parenting regimes and one of the features of different parenting regimes are the barriers to enter and skip parenthood or keep parental status. It seems that Eastern European societies can be regarded a separate cluster in parenting regimes within Europe because of similar barriers to enter/skip parenthood and keep it. I expect PhD student whose aim is to reveal reveal the special features of Eastern European parenting regime and highlight the barriers in order to better understand its cultural roots. 

I have three research projects at the Centre for Social Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence. One is an NKFI project, titled: “Fertility knowledge and beliefs about fertility treatments among childless women and men in Hungary in European perspectives” In my second project I examine “Fathers’ roles in their non-resident children’s lives”. In my third research project I focus on fertility during Covid-19 period. 

Literature 

Dommermuth, L., Hohmann-Marriott, B., & Lappegård, T. (2017). Gender equality in the family and childbearing. Journal of Family Issues, 38(13): 1803–1824. 

Spéder Z, Kapitány B. (2014). Failure to realize fertility intentions: A key aspect of the post-communist fertility transition. Population Research and Policy Review, 33(3): 393-418. 

Szalma, I., and Djundeva. (2019) What Shapes Public Attitudes Towards Assisted Reproduction Technologies in Europe? Demográfia English Edition 62 (5): 45–75. 

Szalma, I. & Takács, J. (2015). Who remains childless? Unrealized fertility plans in Hungary. Czech Sociological Review 51(6): 1047–1075. 

Takács, J., Szalma, I., & Bartus, T. (2016). Social attitudes toward adoption by same-sex couples in Europe. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45(7), 1787–1798.

Proposed by Attila Melegh, Institute of Communication and Sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest

Description

How discursive changes can be related to material processes and structures if we focus on Eastern and Central Europe. How migration has been structured in our closer region in a longer term period when there has been a massive decline in fertility as result of which ageing is going on rapidly? Are there are different developmental patterns in migration a region historically so much interwoven. Are there linkages to discursive changes being the prime concern of our analysis? We can analyze common and some diverging patterns and there has been an overall development toward to an intensifying unequal exchanges with more developed areas due to a massive economic opening up. This is happening via sending massive number of emigrants toward the West, while at the same time the countries in the region mainly take migrants from each other thus leading to demographic emptying. This fragility and the ongoing wave of asylum seekers seems to be a key driver of a shift toward the radicalization of demographic nationalisms in the region. Insufficient research or theoretical work has been done on the question of how these complex modes of integration develop historically. Migration flows are related to other social processes, which makes analysis difficult, but, more importantly, the analytical focus has been too narrow to further any subtle grasp of how the patterns of interrelated processes have changed in human history according to positions in a global system. There is a need to re-contextualize historically and regionally all of the major theories of migration that emerged over the course of the last three decades.

Literature

Attila Melegh (2013) Net migration and historical development in Southeastern Europe since 1950. Hungarian Historical Review 1, no. 3–4 (2012): 144–182 

Melegh, Attila – Papp Z., Attila (2018): Historical Links and Integration of Migrants from Neighbouring Countries in Hungary. In: Aimie Bouju – Andreas Edel (eds.): Similar but Different Inclusion and Exclusion of Immigrant Communities Sharing Similar Cultural Backgrounds with Their Host Societies. Population Europe Discussion Paper No. 8., pp.47-53. https://www.population-europe.eu/discussion-paper/discussion-paper-no-8-similar-different 

Melegh, Attila, Dóra Gábriel, Gabriella Gresits és Dalma Hámos (2018): Abandoned Hungarian workers and the political economy of care work in Austria. Review of Sociology of The Hungarian Sociological Association 28(4): 61-88″

Melegh A., Vancsó A., Mendly D., Hunyadi M. (2021) Positional Insecurity and the Hungarian Migration Policy. In: Ceccorulli M., Fassi E., Lucarelli S. (eds) The EU Migration System of Governance. The European Union in International Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53997-9_7  

Proposed by Zsuzsanna Elekes, Institute of Communication and Sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest 

Description 

After a long-run increase in adolescent’s substance use, new tendencies have appeared in several European countries: smoking, alcohol use and some forms of illicit drug use started to decrease. Several hypotheses exist in the literature to explain changes in youth’s risk behaviour: 

• Internet use, social media use and its’ at-risk use have increased among young people. Outgoing forms of leisure time activities have decreased, and young people spend a significant part of their leisure time in their own or friends’ home. Their social life more and more occurs thorough the internet. These changes influence their substance use habit, while at-risk use of internet and social media network increase. 
• The decrease in adolescent’s substance use might be a consequence of their increased health consciousness. Some survey results prove the increase in health consciousness of adult population. We don’t have too much information about adolescents health behaviour. 
• The spread of new psychoactive drugs has reduced the use of alcohol and other drugs. Since about 2010 more and more data indicate the spread of new psychoactive drugs among Hungarian adolescents. Some Hungarian local studies resulted that the use of new psychoactive drugs is mostly widespread among people living in segregated settlements, in socially disadvantaged situation. They use low-priced but hazardous drugs to replace more expensive alcohol and other illicit drugs. 

In a five years research project we are planning to conduct different qualitative and quantitative researches to explore and understand changes in risk behaviours, leisure time activities, health consciousness of young people. Interested students may join any part of the program with their own interest and research question. 

Literature 

Baker D., Algorta G. P.(2016): The Relationship Between Online Social Networking and Depression: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Studies Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking Volume 19, Number 11, 2016 

ESPAD (2019): ESPAD REPORT. Results from the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs. EMCDDA, Lisbon 

Inchley, J., Currie, D., Young, T., Samdal, O., Torsheim, T., Augustson, L., Mathison, F., Aleman-Diaz, A., Molcho, M., Weber, M., and Barnekow V. (2016): Growing up unequal. HBSC 2016 study (2013/2014 survey) Health Policy for Children and Adolescents, No. 7. WHO Regional Office for Europe Geneva 

Parker, H. (2005): Normalization as a barometer: Recreational drug use and the consumption of leisure by younger Britons. Addiction Research and Theory. June 2005, 13(3): 205-215 

Room, R. (2015) Cultural aspects of and responses to addiction. In: El-Guebaly, N., Carrà, G. & Galanter, M., eds., Textbook of Addiction Treatment: International Perspectives, pp. 107-114. Milan, Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht & London: Springer.

Tromholt M. (2016): The Facebook Experiment: Quitting Facebook Leads to Higher Levels of Well-Being Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking Volume 19, Number 11, 2016

Proposed by László Lőrincz, Corvinus University, NeTI Lab & Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, ANet Lab, and Balázs Lengyel, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, ANet Lab & Corvinus University, NeTI Lab

Description

We welcome research project proposals in the following fields: 

1. Statistical models of networks: how structural properties contribute to build-up and dissolution of large networks, such as online social networks, or supply-chain networks of firms. 
2. Organizational networks, skills and performance: analyzing the relationship between skills of employees, the network structure of their interactions, and firm performance 
3. The role of relational embeddedness in the development and dissolution of firms’ supplier-buyer relationships: analyzing the development of structural embeddedness (presence of common partners), firm ownership networks, mobility of employees and personal connections of managers. 

We can best support research methods of statistics / econometrics / data mining, agent-based simulations, data science / programming. The topics are part of the research program of the Networks, Technology and Innovation (NeTI) Lab. The Lab also provides (paid) research internship to the successful PhD applicants.

Literature

Barabási, A. L. (2016). Network science. Cambridge university press. 

Lőrincz L, Da Silva GKC, Hannák A, Takács D, Lengyel B, Eriksson R (2020) Global connections and the structure of skills in local co-worker networks. Applied Network Science 5:78 

Uzzi, B. (1997). Social structure and competition in interfirm networks: The paradox of embeddedness. Administrative science quarterly, 35-67.  

Proposed by Tamás Bartus, Institute of Communication and Sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest 

Description 

The expansion of higher education is often viewed as one of the causes of low fertility. Several explanations have been proposed for why educational expansion may result in fertility decline. First, participation in education is incompatible with childbearing, and longer participation in education leads to the postponement of family formation. Second, rapid expansion of educational opportunities lead to an “education fever”, a growing emphasize on child quality and an increase in the expected costs of childbearing. Finally, the expansion of higher education went hand in hand with with the reversal of the traditional gender gap in education, forcing more and more women to “marry down”, leading to a possible clash of conflicts over investments in children, division of household tasks, which in turn lower fertility intentions and increase partnership instability. 

The objective of the research project is to examine the relative importance of the aforementioned explanations. The quantitative analysis of available datasets (e.g., the international Generations and Gender Survey) or qualitatie studies are equally possible. 

Literature 

Neels, K., Murphy, M., Ní Bhrolcháin, M., Beaujouan, É., (2017): Rising Educational Participation and the Trend to Later Childbearing. Population and Development Review, 43: (4) 667-693. 

Anderson, T., Kohler, H-P. (2013), Education Fever and the East Asian Fertility Puzzle: A case study of low fertility in South Korea. Asian Population Studies, 9(2): 196-215. 

Nitsche, N., Matysiak, A., Van Bavel, J. Vignoli, D., (2015), Partners’ Educational Pairings and Fertility across Europe. Families and Societies Working Paper Series, no. 38.

Proposed by Ivett Szalma (Institute of Economics and Public Policy, Corvinus University of Budapest; Centre for Social Sciences HAS CE) & Judit Takács (Centre for Social Sciences HAS CE) 

Description

European societies have experienced a significant change in fertility patterns: postponement of becoming parents, massive falls in fertility rates, shrinking family sizes and growing numbers of childless women. Especially from the second half of the 20th century there was increasing attention focused on the different interpretations of childless lifestyles: the changing social perception of childlessness is reflected by the fact that besides the previously almost exclusively stigmatizing approaches, “being childfree” appeared as an option of alternative lifestyles. Nowadays the issue of childlessness is connected to several psychological, social, and socio-political consequences both at the individual level and at the level of society.

Our knowledge on factors potentially influencing childbearing is still very incomplete. We have done extensive examination of childlessness within the FamiliesAndSocietes FP7 programme (2013-2017): we have focussed on macro-level determinants of childlessness among women and men in Europe, and examined the relationship between fertility postponement, completed fertility and childlessness. Additionally, we have conducted a larger scale qualitative research project to explore the empirically detectable reasons of intentional childlessness, as well as the potential psychological, social and socio-political consequences of (intentional and non-intentional) childlessness in Hungary. This topic has several aspects which can be analysed by quantitative or qualitative means or with mixed methods, depending on the chosen subtopic. 

The ideal candidate has good skills in advanced statistics and/or in qualitative methodology, and at least a basic knowledge of demographic trends in Europe. 

The successful applicants can join the supervisors’ research activities at the Centre for Social Sciences and the Corvinus University of Budapest. 

Literature 

Gillespie, R. (2001) Contextualizing voluntary childlessness within a postmodern model of reproduction: Implications for health and social needs. Critical Social Policy, 21: 139–159. 

Hagestad G. – Call, V.R.A. (2007): Pathways to Childlessness: A Life Course Perspective. Journal of Family Issues, 28/10. 1338–1361. 

Hird, M. J. – Abshoff K. (2010) Women without Children: A Contradiction in Terms? Journal of Comparative Family Studies 6:347-366.

Houseknecht, S. K. (1987). Voluntary childlessness. In: M. P. Sussman and K. Steinmetz (Eds.), Handbook of marriage and the family, pp. 369-395. New York: Plenum. 

Szalma I. – Takács J. (2015) Who Remains Childless? Unrealized Fertility Plans in Hungary. Sociologicky časopis/Czech Sociological Review, 51(6): 1047-1075. 

Szalma I. – Takács J. (2018) Is There Voluntary Childlessness at All in Hungary? 309-336. In: Natalie Sappleton (Ed.) Voluntary and Involuntary: The Joys of Otherhood? Bingly: Emerald. 

Takács, J. (2013) Unattainable desires? Childbearing capabilities in early 21st century Hungary. In: L.Sz. Oláh and E. Fratczak (Eds.) Childbearing, Women’s Employment and Work-Life Balance Policies in Contemporary Europe. Basingstoke and New York, N.Y: Palgrave Macmillan.

Proposed by Beáta Nagy Institute of Communication and Sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest 

Description 

Women’s massive entry into the labour market and their growing educational level placed the question into the focus, whether both women and men enjoy the same opportunities in employment, organisations and management. Organizational research highlighted the mechanisms how inequality regimes hinder people representing minorities to reach equal position at work. These limiting phenomena work at business and non-profit organizations alike, and have a special relevance in global comparisons. 

Potential research questions to be examined: 

1. Gender ratio in management and organization, i.e. the explanation of tough horizontal and vertical segregation 
2. Changes and challenges in organisational culture: career-oriented women and organizational reactions (with special focus to in male-dominated areas) 
3. Usefulness of soft and hard organizational policies to achieve equal gender representation in executive or top positions. 
4. Organisational responsibilities in reaching work-life balance. 

Literature 

Acker (1990): Hierarchies, jobs, bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations. Gender & Society, 4(2), 139–158. http://doi.org/10.1177/089124390004002002 

Acker, J. (2009): From glass ceiling to inequality regimes. Sociologie Du Travail, 51(2), 199–217. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.soctra.2009.03.004 

Ely, R. J. – Meyerson, D. E. (2000): Theories of gender in organizations: A new approach to organizational analysis and change. Research in Organizational Behavior, 22, p. 103-151. 

Kelan, E. K. (2009): Gender fatigue: The ideological dilemma of gender neutrality and discrimination in organizations, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences/Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l’Administration, 26 (3), pp. 197-210. 

Utzeri, M., Nagy, B., & Ilie, I. A. (2019). Gender initiatives between support and denial. Mahadevan, J., Primecz, H., & Romani, L. (Eds.). Cases in Critical Cross-Cultural Management: An Intersectional Approach to Culture (Vol. 1). Routledge

Proposed by Béla Janky associate professor, Department of Sociology and Media Studies at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics 

Description

The influence of elites on public attitudes toward contested social issues is a well documented phenomenon. A renewed interest in attitude polarization in contemporary democracies have urged a new wave of experimental research on elite influence on public attitudes in the past decade. Since then, substantial evidence has accumulated that information about elite positions could induce significant attitude shifts. 

Some scholars have increasingly emphasized the role of people’s feelings of identity in the influence of elites on public attitudes towards social issues: as a result of identification with a political community, people self-stereotype and conform to perceived group norms by expressing attitudes similar to the perceived typical opinion in their community. Those assumptions are based on social identity theory according to which self-stereotyping is an immediate consequence of the salience of identity. 

The doctorate student can participate in a research program which aims to explore the effects of elite positions and identity on public attitudes towards social issues. The empirical methods to be used could include survey experiment and content analysis. 

Literature 

Baldassarri, D., & Gelman, A. (2008). Partisans without constraint: Political polarization and trends in American public opinion. American Journal of Sociology, 114(2), 408-446. 

Bullock, J. G. (2011). Elite influence on public opinion in an informed electorate. American Political Science Review, 105(3), 496–515. 

Burke, P. J., & Stets, J. E. (2009). Identity theory. Oxford University Press. 

Chong, D.–Druckman, J. N. (2007). Framing theory. Annual Review of Political Science, 10, 103–126.

Druckman, J. N.–Jacobs, L. R. (2015). Who Governs? Presidents, Public Opinion, and Manipulation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 

Iyengar, S., Sood, G. & Lelkes, Y. (2012). Affect, Not Ideology: A Social Identity Perspective on Polarization. Public Opinion Quarterly, 76(3), 405–431. 

Janky, B. (2019). Changing Connotations and the Evolution of the Effect of Wording: Labeling Asylum Seekers in a Political Campaign. International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

Proposed by Henriett Primecz, Corvinus University of Budapest 

Description 

Gender, race, religion within organizations across cultures, inclusion and visibility have gained much attention recently. Differences are historically learned and contextualized, and I invite doctoral research which challenge, question and problematize binaries and hierarchies of social categories, such as gender (identities), dis/abilities, ethnicities, religions, cultures and so on. I am looking for explorative organizational case studies (e.g. organizational ethnography) that will bring rich accounts of hidden power structures within the organizations. With in-depth qualitative studies based on interviews and observations in an organizational setting, power structures or other explanations can be found and contribute to better understand the intersections of social groups within organizations and societies. This can be studied with Derrida-inspired frameworks and tools such as deconstruction and poststructuralist or postmodern feminism – based on Foucault’s insights – opens up the possibility of resistance with the notion of difference. I invite proposals related – but not limited – to the above-mentioned themes. 

Literature 

Beauregard, T. A., Arevshatian, L., Booth, J. E. & Whittle, S. (2018) Listen carefully: transgender voices in the workplace, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 29(5), 857-884, DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2016.1234503 

Mahadevan, J., Primecz, H., Romani, L. (eds.) 2020: Cases in Critical Cross-Cultural Management. An Intersectional Approach to Culture, (pp. 33-45), Abingdon: Routledge 

Primecz, H., Mahadevan, J., Romani, L. (2016): Why is cross-cultural management scholarship blind to power relations? Investigating ethnicity, language, gender, and religion in power-laden contexts, International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, Vol 16(2), 127-136. DOI: 10.1177/1470595816666154. 

Zanoni, P., Janssens, M., Benschop, Y. and Nkomo, S. (2010) ‘Guest editorial: Unpacking diversity, grasping inequality: Rethinking difference through critical perspectives’, Organization, 17(1): 9-29.

Proposed by József Böröcz, Institute for Communication and Sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest