Munkatársak és kapcsolat

Short intro: In my research, I am trying to investigate how the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics into society will contribute to shaping the present and future socio-technical pathways in OMAN. Further, I will try to uncover the government’s role in the production of future imagery and its positioning. On one hand, the Omani government is a robust player in creating the nation’s understanding and expectation of AI, however, on the other hand, like any other government, the public and private narratives have an influence on the government. 

Short intro: A. Aysu Sinik is a third year Ph.D. student. Her research aims to analyze how decision-making mechanisms within companies and necessary government channels are shaped by the labor and automation investment strategies while also considering the technology and business policies of states that promote technology use to enhance economic growth. In so doing, it purports to explain how the workforce is positioned in the new technology systems by employing the theory of sociology of expectations by taking Turkey’s food industry as a case.

Short intro: International student mobility (ISM) is gaining momentum. Hungary is also part of this phenomenon, but the students coming here (especially from the Global East) face significant problems after arrival notably from cultural and social aspects. With my research I aim to connect ISM with transnationalism, transnational social spaces and migration capital to understand the experiences of mobile students. Focusing on how internationally mobile students live their everyday lives, I can also have a better understanding on how their border-crossing relationships and exchanges happen through transnational social spaces. I want to uncover the ways international students can improve their capital throughout their mobility in Europe. Researching social networks in a qualitative way can give a wider picture of how students can utilise their newly created transnational social networks.

Short intro: My research aims at explaining the authoritarian survival in countries of the Global South that suffer from autocratic rules of varying forms in the age globalization as we undergo massive development in ICTs. In doing so, it attempts to vindicate how intensification digital technology commodifies information, spurring the integration of nations into global market economy in the wake of neo-liberal ideology that reinforces authoritarian power relations by examining the Ethiopian political experiment.

Short intro: The research aims to shed light upon and test empirically, how deviation is different societies and cultural norms connect and hold causality. Cultural differences of norms (believes) and roles (actions) are being compared.
The research tests, weather deviant behavior among males is magnified by gender norm believes within and between societies. The dissertation will measure gender norms by a Cross Country Survey on Cultural and Gender Norms (ESS, WVS) Gender difference in household duties and power in the domestic sphere, gender difference in labor force participation and participation in the social sphere (OECD). Also, the research investigates the within society distributions, clusters, and hierarchies of gender norms (Eurostat). Thus, the studies examine the relation between gender norms and risk behavior: The within society correlation of gendered norms with the presence of risk behavior and delinquents (ESPAD). Latent classes of deviant behavior, alcohol and drug use and delinquent behavior (Latent profile analyses and Structural modeling, ESPAD Hungary). Between society traditional gender norms /as an instrument (IV- SISTER method)/ in relation to risk behavior, health risks, life expectancy, the risk of death by Covid19 (SHARE Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, SHARE Corona Survey,), and higher suicide ratio (WHO) among males (random effects) and the difference between objective and subjective well being in the light of cultural differences.

Short intro: My thesis analyses the integrity, more precisely, the quality of public procurement activity of the Hungarian local governments in terms of corruption risk – or the potential presence of corruption – with a twofold aim. The first of them is the revelation of relationships between the corruption risk that potentially occurs during the procurement of the municipalities and certain local socioeconomic factors which are proven to be important predictors (or at least correlating variables – causal inferencing is a fickle endeavour on this particular domain) by preceding studies, mostly based on cross-national statistical analyses. The second goal is the evaluation of the corruption risk indices from the methodological perspective: as the present analysis is restricted to a group of institutions with several special characteristics, namely the local governments, which have democratically elected leaders, operate nationwide and their integrity affects the everyday lives of the citizens, it may result in insights about the validity of the corruption risk indices, at least within the municipalities. To achieve these goals, I did mixed-methods research consisting of a statistical analysis of the public procurement contracts issued by the Hungarian towns and some of their background characteristics and interview research involving the leaders of the local governments, entrepreneurs and experts involved in the tenders of municipalities.

Short intro: The role of social networks in labor markets has been widely recognized for decades. The dissertation focuses primarily on the perspective of individuals and aims to give a deeper understanding of how social networks shape the economic and employment opportunities of individuals. It investigates the direct and indirect effects of professional ties on a wide range of labor market outcomes, such as job finding probabilities, the level of wages, job stability, and the chances for upward mobility in terms of employment outcomes. Following recent trends in the measurement of network effects, the empirical work takes a relatively novel approach to quantify the economic benefits of social ties by exploiting the potential of a large Hungarian linked administrative employer-employee panel dataset. Although direct information on social ties is not available in the dataset, the availability of anonymous firm and individual identifiers makes it possible to identify various segments of networks, such as former co-workers and university peers. Building on studies using similar data, elaborating on the empirical approaches already applied for measuring network-related effects, and incorporating recent developments in panel data methods, the dissertation presents 3 empirical studies on the role of social ties in the labor market. The results, on the one hand, draw attention to the importance of professional ties as essential intermediaries facilitating and directing worker mobility. On the other hand, they provide indications of the downside of networks: social ties may directly or indirectly contribute to maintaining or even increasing existing labor market inequalities.

Email: gergely.monus@stud.uni-corvinus.hu

Témavezető(k): László Lőrincz

Kutatási téma: Understanding Internal Migration from a Network Perspective

Short intro: The growing importance of agglomerations, spatial spillovers, and other kind of interactions between settlements is widely recognized in urban research. Interestingly, macro-level studies of internal migration – one of the most important underlying social process of urban development – traditionally overlook such effects. Researchers tend to focus on settlements as individual units through gravity or push-pull models. In my proposal I argue that these modeling frameworks are unable to explain migration as a system, a shortcoming that can be overcome by the application of network theory and network models.

Email: valeria.pelyhe@uni-corvinus.hu

Témavezető(k): Primecz Henriett, Takács Judit

Kutatási téma: Gender in workplaces in the view of transgender people

Email: orsolya.polyacsko@uni-corvinus.hu

Témavezető(k): Borbála Göncz, Vera Messing

Kutatási téma: The Politicization of Migration and Integration in Hungary – Claims-making in the media

Email: flora.samu@stud.uni-corvinus.hu

Témavezető(k): Károly Takács, Szabolcs Számadó

Kutatási téma: Collaboration and reliable communication in dynamic networks

Email: e.silva@stud.uni-corvinus.hu

Témavezető(k): Zoltán Szántó, Lilla Mária Vicsek

Kutatási téma: Representations of corruption in the media: comparative study of Brazil and Portugal

Email: ainura.smailova@stud.uni-corvinus.hu

Témavezető(k): Borbála Göncz

Kutatási téma: Comparative study of Brazil and Portugal 

Email: cahuana.solano@stud.uni-corvinus.hu

Témavezető(k): Henriett Primecz, Beáta Nagy

Kutatási téma: Gender equality in academic governance: Organizational approaches and collective attitudes

Short intro: The study aims at contributing to the formal evidence for higher education institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC) on individual, organizational, and social influences over women’s representation in academic decision-making bodies, with a particular focus on affirmative actions, informal strategies, and collective perceptions within public universities.

Short intro: My research focuses on the relationship between social capital and the recovery of the people through social capital. How to use social capital like a tool to adapt with natural disasters. The research will analyse the relationship of individual and community levels for disasters resilience; to understand of the effect of natural disasters on residents’ livelihood; to comprehend how the people do based on social capital when coping pre, during and post-disasters.

Short intro: Orsolya Udvari is a PhD student at the Sociology Doctoral Program at Corvinus University of Budapest since 2021. Her research focuses on the phenomenon of obstetric violence and her topic is women’s trauma narratives in the Hungarian health care system, comparing experiences based on class and ethnicity with qualitative methods.

Email: eszter.vit@uni-corvinus.hu

Témavezető(k): Károly Takács, Dorottya Kisfalusi

Kutatási téma: Peer Effects on Educational Aspirations

Short intro: In the past few decades, China’s economic development has transformed the structure of Chinese society and within it also of families. Both internal and external migration processes have a significant impact on blood relations. The traditional Chinese extended family seems to be disintegrating in the south. Middle-aged men and women who are able to work are looking for work away from home either abroad or  on the mainland. Left-behind children and the elderly remain only in the villages. The urban middle class mainly sees the prosperity of their families abroad. The influence of the onechild policy is still felt today, although the male dominance in the cities seems to be declining. In more and more families of urban intellectuals, the value is not only represented by the male child. Gender roles are also being transformed, and femininity and masculinity are taking completely different forms.