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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.<ref name="Vita" /> |
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.<ref name="Vita" /> |
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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 [[ |
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 Universitgy]].{{Citation needed|date= October 2019}} |
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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 Karl Marx University of Economics in Budapest, where he graduated in 1960.[1] After graduating, he was employed at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office. He received a Ford Scholarship and studied at the University of California in Berkeley for one year. After his return he was a research fellow at the Institute of Sociology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS).[citation needed] In 1967, he was elevated as scientific secretary and in 1970 as the Head of the Department of Regional Sociology. In 1973, he earned the title Candidate of Sciences (PhD) at the HAS. In 1974, a transcript of a book which he wrote with fellow sociologist and author György Konrád, titled The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power, was brought out of Hungary. The book contained critical thought about Communist-ruled society. After this move, Szelényi was arrested, later expelled from Hungary and stripped of his citizenship.[7]
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 UCLA (between 1992 and 1995 as department chair).[1] In 1999, he was appointed William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology and Professor of Political Science at the Yale University. He chaired the department two times (1999–2002 and 2008–2009). In 2010, he became the Dean of Social Sciences at New York University Abu Dhabi, where he continues to teach today.[1]
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 Universitgy.[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
- Ladányi, János; Szelényi, Iván (May 30, 2006). Patterns of Exclusion: Constructing Gypsy Ethnicity and the Making of an Underclass in Transitional Societies of Europe. New York: East European Monographs. ISBN 0880335742.
- King, Lawrence Peter; Szelényi, Iván (April 23, 2004). Theories Of The New Class: Intellectuals And Power. Contradictions of Modernity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 081664344X.
- Eyal, Gil; Szelényi, Iván; Townsley, Eleanor (March 17, 2001). Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe. Brooklyn: Verso Books. ISBN 1859843123.
- Szelényi, Iván (June 15, 1988). Socialist Entrepreneurs: Embourgeoisement in Rural Hungary. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0299113647.
- Szelényi, Iván (December 15, 1983). Urban Inequalities Under State Socialism. New York: Oxford University Press. 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. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 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.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ a b Szelényi, Iván (1973). Urban inequalities under state socialism (Ph.D.). Hungarian Academy of Sciences. OCLC 468124488. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
- ^ Western, Bruce Prichart (1993). Unionization trends in postwar capitalism : a comparative study of working class organization (Ph.D.). University of California, Los Angeles. OCLC 29541828. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
- ^ King, Lawrence Peter (1997). Pathways from socialism to capitalism: The transformation of firms in post-Communist Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Ph.D.). University of California, Los Angeles. OCLC 40057648. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
- ^ Eyal, Gil (1997). The break-up of Czechoslovakia : a sociological explanation (Ph.D.). University of California, Los Angeles. OCLC 39203200. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
- ^ Beckett, Katherine (1994). The politics of law and order: The state and the wars against crime and drugs, 1964 to the present (Ph.D.). University of California, Los Angeles. OCLC 31440265. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
- ^ [1] Archived 2010-07-26 at the Wayback Machine
