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Department of Sociology and Communication
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Research

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

Collective action and public policy
 
Cultural studies
  • Interests, norms and strategic interactions
  • Values, frames and public attitudes
  • Urban-, environmental- and development studies
 
  • Philosophy of language and text analysis
  • Studies on creative industries (journalism and popular music)
  • Visual communication - theory and praxis
research centres
CSSDS Centre for Socio-Spatial Development Studies
MOKK  BME Media Lab (2002-2010)
 

 

department seminar series
10 December: Márton Bene on viral politics
3 December: Andrea Rajkó on the taboos
26 November: Tibor Bárány on literary criticism
19 November: Béla Janky on media framing

 

In focus
Penn, D. & Számadó Sz. (2019). The Handicap Principle. Biological Reviews,
Barna E. & Tófalvy T. Made in Hungary. New York: Routledge, 2017
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