Hungarian Social Research of the 1990s: Continuity and Discontinuity
Hungarian Social Research of the 1990s: Continuity and Discontinuity

Summary/Abstract: Following the drama of 1988-90 , the internal crisis of Hungarian social research suddenly became visible; methods employed, traditional approaches , and research time-frames suddenly had to be tested in a social environment that was fundamentally different. Until then, social critics tended to exist in relation to the power; defining themselves as serving it, trying to change it, or supporting it. The structure and operation of the exercise of power having changed, the self-identification of social research had to be analyzed anew. The external space defining social research had to be changed, too-the markets of higher education adjusted, the system of financing research reorganized, and the key elements of the international network assessed. On the one hand, the differential specifics of East European state socialism upgrading the local fields in international comparisons is disappearing. [...]

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