Sociology of Family
Management
Head of Section: Bernadett Szél, PhD
email: bernadett.szel@uni-corvinus.hu
telephone: +3630/864-2291
Secretery of Section: Ivett Szalma PhD candidate
email: iszalma@gmail.com
telephone: +3630/419-3320
Budapest Corvinus University Doctoral School of
Sociology
Introduction
The Sociology of Family Section aims at providing meeting and further development opportunities for researchers focusing on family sociology inHungary. Besides classical sociological theory, methods and methodology, the section welcomes goal-setting and pool of methods predominantly applied in demography. Besides further developing the relevant Hungarian traditions, a priority of the leaders is to call the attention of the researchers to the actual international research trends and to set up relevant dialogues in the community.
Szél Bernadett accomplished her PhD at the Doctoral School of Sociology at the Corvinus University of Budapest; her dissertation focuses on the measurement possibilities of family cohesion. She has worked for the Hungarian Central Statistical Office and for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences –Office for Supported Research Groups; her current research fields is as follows: identifying and measuring patterns and mechanisms supporting partnership cohesion, the consequences of labour market uncertainties on partnership formation; measuring state capacity on the regional level; sociomathematical modeling.
Ivett Szalma (* 1980) is Doctoral Candidate in Sociology at the Institute of Sociology and Social Policy at the Corvinus
University of Budapest. She worked in the Sociology Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Institute for Educational
Research and Development. She works as a market researcher.
Main areas of research:
- The consequences of labor market uncertainties on partnership formation and fertility patterns
- Attitudes towards welfare state and deliberative research
- Attitudes on the segmentation and the landmarks of the life course in European comparison
- Methodology questions (mixed mode, deliberative methods)
