Iván Szelényi
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Iván Szelényi | |
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Szelényi Iván | |
Notable students | Bruce Western,[3] Lawrence King,[4] Katherine Beckett[5] |
Main interests | Social inequality |
Iván Szelényi (born April 17, 1938 in Budapest) is a noted Hungarian-American sociologist, as of 2010 the Dean of Social Sciences at New York University Abu Dhabi.
Biography
He is the son of Gusztáv Szelényi, an entomologist and Julianna Csapó.
Szelényi studied at the External Trade Faculty of the
In 1975, he was a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Kent. One year later he was invited to Flinders University of South Australia where he was the Foundation Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department until 1980. In 1981, he joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was Professor of Sociology for five years (the last year as the Karl Polanyi Professor).[1] After that he was appointed Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Social Research and Executive Officer of the Sociology Program at the Graduate School of the City University of New York.
From 1988 to 1999 he worked as Professor of Sociology at
After the political change in Hungary, his citizenship was reinstated. Since 1990, he has held a Doctor of Science degree and became a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was elected to full membership in 1995. In 2006, he received the highest state prize for scientific work, the Széchenyi Prize, and two years later he became an Honorary Citizen of Budapest. Beyond that, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000.[1]
He is the father of three children: his elder daughter, Szonja Szelényi (now Ivester), teaches sociology at University of California, Berkeley, his younger daughter Lilla Szelényi is on the State of California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) in Oakland, California and his son Balázs teaches history at Northeastern University.[citation needed]
Works
At the beginning of his scientific work, his research focused on urban communities. He wrote numerous publications on that issue, mostly in Hungarian.[citation needed] His critical stance on partyline issues was published in his book The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power, which was published in English in 1979. It was also translated into German, French, Spanish and Japanese.[1]
After he was forced to leave Hungary, his research profile changed. He studied the inequality in urban communities and about the structural problems of the capitalistic and socialistic society. His most important publications of these are Urban Inequalities under State Socialism (1983), Socialist Entrepreneurs. Embourgeoisement in Rural Hungary (1988), Social Conflicts of Post-communist Transitions (1992) and Making Capitalism without Capitalists (1998).[1]
Some of his works were collected and published in 1990 and 2009.[1]
Bibliography
Books in English
- Szelényi, Iván and Mihályi, Péter. (Nov 28, 2019). Varieties of Post-communist Capitalism. Leiden: ISBN 978-90-04-41318-4
- Ladányi, János; Szelényi, Iván (May 30, 2006). Patterns of Exclusion: Constructing Gypsy Ethnicity and the Making of an Underclass in Transitional Societies of Europe. ISBN 0880335742.
- King, Lawrence Peter; Szelényi, Iván (April 23, 2004). Theories Of The New Class: Intellectuals And Power. Contradictions of Modernity. ISBN 081664344X.
- Eyal, Gil; Szelényi, Iván; Townsley, Eleanor (March 17, 2001). Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe. ISBN 1859843123.
- Szelényi, Iván (June 15, 1988). Socialist Entrepreneurs: Embourgeoisement in Rural Hungary. ISBN 0299113647.
- Szelényi, Iván (December 15, 1983). Urban Inequalities Under State Socialism. ISBN 0198771762.
- Konrád, György; Szelényi, Iván (July 1, 1979). The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power: A Sociological Study of the Role of the Intelligentsia in Socialism. ISBN 0151778604.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Curriculum Vitae - Iván Szelényi". New York University - Sociology. August 9, 2010. Archived from the original on April 15, 2016. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
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