A wide variety of different approaches intersect in our research projects. There is an outstanding diversity of the disciplinary backgorunds of our professors who have masters and doctoral degrees in twelve different scholarly disciplines. Activities at the department extend from creative art to matematical analysis. At the intersections, there are common focuses, such as the links between humans and technology. In this field, our department is one of the leading research centers of Central-Eastern Europe.
In certain (sub)disciplines (quantitative sociology and cultural studies), the relative international publication performance of the department has been the best among the Hungarian social science university departments in recent years. Added to this, the department has strong links to professional societies, local communities and enterprises applying social science knowledge.
Recent publications
Penn, Dustin J. & Számadó Szabolcs (2019). The Handicap Principle: how an erroneous hypothesis became a scientific principle. Biological Reviews, online first
Janky Béla (2019). Changing connotations and the evolution of the effect of wording. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 31(4): 714-737.
Kisfalusi Dorottya, Janky Béla & Takács Károly (2019). Double Standards or Social Identity? The Role of Gender and Ethnicity in Ability Perceptions in the Classroom. Journal of Early Adolescence 39(5): 745-780.
Our research activities are organized around two major fields (and six subfields) of study