This paper offers tools to rethink global critical insights on “race” in the contemporary structural transforma-tion of European identity politics from the perspectives of postcolonial global historical sociologies. “Race”regimes rest on the following background assumptions: (1) The...

Ez az először mind angolul, mind magyarul húsz éve megjelent tanulmány a globális történeti-összehasonlító szociológia eszközeivel irányítja a figyelmet a magyar társadalom egyik szembeötlő jellegzetességére, a szinte mindent átfogó informalitásra. Azt firtatja, milyen...

1989-ben Magyarországra Kelet-Európa legpiacképesebb országaként tekintettek, ám az ország európai uniós csatlakozása és jelentősen megnövekedett külkereskedelme ellenére az eltelt két évtized során az egy főre jutó GDP tekintetében még az államszocialista korszak...

Although social network assets have been widely studied as mechanisms for social achievement in the capitalist context, they remain largely unexamined under socialist-type systems. This paper addresses that weakness in the literature and tests the usefulness of social network resources in income...

This paper presents an analysis of nonprofit organizations - the organizational infrastructure of civil society - in East Central Europe, from one important respect: by placing them in the context of the comparative historical sociology of the region's widespread informality. This involves two...

This article provides a glimpse into the formation of the post-state-socialist business elites in Hungary, Poland and Russia. We raise four interrelated questions. 1) What is the extent of the change on the top of business hierarchy? 2) What social groups predominate in the new business elite?...

This study is an empirical attempt to analyze the intersection of the sociologies of power, knowledge, interstate relations, underdevelopment, identity, and communication. I look at the expert exchange that took place as part of diplomatic communication between Hungary and the European Union...

Konraacute;d and Szeleacute;nyi posed a powerful critique of state socialism with their formulation of the new class theory suggesting that intellectuals were on the road to class power. Using a Weberian reading of Bourdieu, we specify empirically one aspect of that critique and examine the...

Drawin mainly on the Hungarian experience, this article places an analysis of the transformations of the property relations of state socialism in the context of the transformations of eastern Europe's longue dureacute;e patterns of external dependency