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{{Short description|Hungarian American sociologist}}
{{Short description|Hungarian American sociologist}}
'''József Böröcz''' (born 1956, [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]]) is a historical sociologist, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at [[Rutgers University]] since July 1, 2024.<ref name="faculty profile">{{cite web |title=József Böröcz |url=https://sociology.rutgers.edu/faculty/menu-ii/142-boeroecz-jozsef |website=sociology.rutgers.edu}}</ref> He earned his PhD in Sociology at [[Johns Hopkins University|The Johns Hopkins University]] in 1992. He has a Dr. Sc. degree from the [[Hungarian Academy of Sciences]] (2004).<ref name="faculty profile" /> According to Google Scholar, Böröcz's [[H-index|H-Index]] score is 31.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jozsef Borocz |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EXtTOpIAAAAJ&hl=en |publisher=Google Scholar}}</ref>
'''József Böröcz''' (born 1956, [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]]) is a [[historical sociologist]], Emeritus Professor of Sociology at [[Rutgers University]] since July 1, 2024.<ref name="faculty profile">{{cite web |title=József Böröcz |url=https://sociology.rutgers.edu/faculty/menu-ii/142-boeroecz-jozsef |website=sociology.rutgers.edu}}</ref> He earned his PhD in Sociology at [[Johns Hopkins University|The Johns Hopkins University]] in 1992. He has a Dr. Sc. degree from the [[Hungarian Academy of Sciences]] (2004).<ref name="faculty profile" /> According to Google Scholar, Böröcz's [[H-index|H-Index]] score is 31.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jozsef Borocz |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EXtTOpIAAAAJ&hl=en |publisher=Google Scholar}}</ref>


== Life ==
== Life ==
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After graduation, he worked for a year in Budapest as a freelance translator from English. In September 1983, he became a Hungarian-as-ancestral-language instructor in the elementary and high schools of [[Albany, Louisiana]]. During his two years in Louisiana, he attended the PhD-Program in Sociology at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]].
After graduation, he worked for a year in Budapest as a freelance translator from English. In September 1983, he became a Hungarian-as-ancestral-language instructor in the elementary and high schools of [[Albany, Louisiana]]. During his two years in Louisiana, he attended the PhD-Program in Sociology at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]].


In 1985, he returned to Budapest and became research associate at one of Hungary's leading empirical social science research institutions at the time, the Mass Communication Research Center.<ref name="cv" /> He continued his PhD-training in the Program in Comparative International Development in the Department of Sociology at [[The Johns Hopkins University]] in 1986, where he soon became an academic advisee of, and research assistant to, [[Alejandro Portes]]. With Portes, he worked on issues of international labor migration. His dissertation examined the effects of international tourism on socioeconomic, political and cultural life, through on a world-historical perspective, a European overview, and an Austro-Hungarian comparison.<ref>{{cite book |title=Leisure Migration: A Sociological Study on Tourism (Book description) |url=https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Leisure-Migration/?k=9780080425603 |website=books.emeraldinsight.com|date = 22 November 1996|volume = 2|publisher = Emerald Group Publishing Limited|isbn = 9780080425603}}</ref> He received his PhD in 1992. In 2004, he earned his Dr.Sc. degree in sociology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.<ref name="cv" />
In 1985, he returned to Budapest and became research associate at one of Hungary's leading empirical social science research institutions at the time, the Mass Communication Research Center.<ref name="cv" /> He continued his PhD-training in the Program in Comparative International Development in the Department of Sociology at [[The Johns Hopkins University]] in 1986, where he soon became an academic advisee of, and research assistant to, [[Alejandro Portes]]. With Portes, he worked on issues of international labor migration. His dissertation examined the effects of international tourism on socioeconomic, political and cultural life, through on a world-historical perspective, a European overview, and an Austro-Hungarian comparison.<ref name="leisure" /> He received his PhD in 1992. In 2004, he earned his Dr.Sc. degree in sociology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.<ref name="cv" />


From 1992 to 1995, he was Assistant Professor of Sociology at the [[University of California at Irvine]].<ref name="cv" />
From 1992 to 1995, he was Assistant Professor of Sociology at the [[University of California at Irvine]].<ref name="cv" />
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== Recognition ==
== Recognition ==


* Knight Cross of the Merit of Honor of the Republic of Hungary 2005.<ref>{{cite web |title=Állami díjak és elismerések augusztus 20. alkalmából |url=http://www.fotomedia.hu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=333&catid=1:hirek&Itemid=2 |website=fotomedia.hu |language=Hungarian |date=19 August 2005}}</ref> He renounced the award in protest due to the government honoring a racist journalist.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Böröcz |first1=József |title=Renouncement of state award in Hungary |url=https://www.academia.edu/27983614 |website=academia.edu}}</ref>
* Knight Cross of the Merit of Honor of the Republic of Hungary 2005.<ref>{{cite web |title=Állami díjak és elismerések augusztus 20. alkalmából |url=http://www.fotomedia.hu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=333&catid=1:hirek&Itemid=2 |website=fotomedia.hu |language=Hungarian |date=19 August 2005}}</ref> He renounced the award in protest due to the government honoring a racist journalist.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Böröcz |first1=József |title=Renouncement of state award in Hungary |url=https://www.academia.edu/27983614 |website=academia.edu}}</ref>
* Immanuel Wallerstein Chair in Global Ethics for 2005-2006,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ccc.ugent.be/roots|title=Research Group Communities Comparisons Connections &#124; CCC Roots|website=www.ccc.ugent.be}}</ref> [[Ghent University|University of Ghent]], Belgium
* Immanuel Wallerstein Chair in Global Ethics for 2005-2006,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ccc.ugent.be/roots|title=Research Group Communities Comparisons Connections &#124; CCC Roots|website=www.ccc.ugent.be}}</ref> [[Ghent University|University of Ghent]], Belgium
* Hungarian Heritage Award 1998<ref>{{cite web |title=Eddigi díjazottak |url=http://www.magyarorokseg.hu/dijazottak_tablazata |publisher=Eddigi díjazottak |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711232425/http://www.magyarorokseg.hu/dijazottak_tablazata |archive-date=11 July 2012}}</ref>
* Hungarian Heritage Award 1998<ref>{{cite web |title=Eddigi díjazottak |url=http://www.magyarorokseg.hu/dijazottak_tablazata |publisher=Eddigi díjazottak |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711232425/http://www.magyarorokseg.hu/dijazottak_tablazata |archive-date=11 July 2012}}</ref>
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* [[David A. Smith (sociologist)|David A. Smith]] and József Böröcz (eds.) 1995. ''A New World Order? Global Transformation in the Late 20th Century''. Greenwood Press (A Praeger Imprint). Hard cover and paperback.
* [[David A. Smith (sociologist)|David A. Smith]] and József Böröcz (eds.) 1995. ''A New World Order? Global Transformation in the Late 20th Century''. Greenwood Press (A Praeger Imprint). Hard cover and paperback.
* József Böröcz. 1996. ''Leisure Migration: A Sociological Study on Tourism''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=voxrQgAACAAJ|title=Leisure Migration: A Sociological Study on Tourism|first=Jozsef|last=Borocz|date=November 22, 1996|publisher=Emerald Group Publishing Limited|isbn=9780080425603|via=Google Books}}</ref> Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press (An Elsevier Science Imprint). Hard cover.
* József Böröcz. 1996. ''Leisure Migration: A Sociological Study on Tourism''.<ref name="leisure" >{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=voxrQgAACAAJ|title=Leisure Migration: A Sociological Study on Tourism|first=Jozsef|last=Borocz|date=November 22, 1996|publisher=Emerald Group Publishing Limited|isbn=9780080425603|via=Google Books}}</ref> Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press (An Elsevier Science Imprint). Hard cover.
* József Böröcz and [[Melinda Kovács]] (eds.). 2001. ''Empire’s New Clothes: Unveiling EU-Enlargement''. E-Book, a Central Europe Review imprint. [http://aei.pitt.edu/144/1/Empire.pdf], 3 December. {{ISBN|1-84287-009-2}}. Hungarian version: Böröcz József és Kovács Melinda (szerk.). 2001. ''EU-birodalom''. Thematic bloc in Replika.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://scripta.c3.hu/scripta0/replika/honlap/4546/00tart.htm|title=replika|website=scripta.c3.hu}}</ref> 45-46 (November): 23-151.
* József Böröcz and [[Melinda Kovács]] (eds.). 2001. ''Empire’s New Clothes: Unveiling EU-Enlargement''. E-Book, a Central Europe Review imprint. [http://aei.pitt.edu/144/1/Empire.pdf], 3 December. {{ISBN|1-84287-009-2}}. Hungarian version: Böröcz József és Kovács Melinda (szerk.). 2001. ''EU-birodalom''. Thematic bloc in Replika.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://scripta.c3.hu/scripta0/replika/honlap/4546/00tart.htm|title=replika|website=scripta.c3.hu}}</ref> 45-46 (November): 23-151.
* József Böröcz. 2009, 2010. ''The European Union and Global Social Change: A Critical Geopolitical-Economic Analysis''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/European-Global-Social-Change-Geopolitical-Economic-ebook/dp/B002NXOS4Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497083489&sr=8-1&keywords=borocz+european+union+global+social+change|title=The European Union and Global Social Change: A Critical Geopolitical-Economic Analysis|first=József|last=Böröcz|date=September 10, 2009|publisher=Routledge|via=Amazon}}</ref> Oxford, UK: Routledge. Hardback and e-book: 2009 and 2010; paperback: 2010.
* József Böröcz. 2009, 2010. ''The European Union and Global Social Change: A Critical Geopolitical-Economic Analysis''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/European-Global-Social-Change-Geopolitical-Economic-ebook/dp/B002NXOS4Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497083489&sr=8-1&keywords=borocz+european+union+global+social+change|title=The European Union and Global Social Change: A Critical Geopolitical-Economic Analysis|first=József|last=Böröcz|date=September 10, 2009|publisher=Routledge|via=Amazon}}</ref> Oxford, UK: Routledge. Hardback and e-book: 2009 and 2010; paperback: 2010.
* [[Ángel Ferrero]], József Böröcz, [[Corina Tulbure]] y [[Roger Suso]]. 2014. ''El último europeo: Imperialismo, xenofóbia y la derecha radical en la Unión Europea''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.laovejaroja.es/ultimoeuropeo-a.htm|title=El último europeo|website=www.laovejaroja.es}}</ref> (In Spanish.) Madrid: La oveja roja.
* [[Ángel Ferrero]], József Böröcz, [[Corina Tulbure]] y [[Roger Suso]]. 2014. ''El último europeo: Imperialismo, xenofóbia y la derecha radical en la Unión Europea''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.laovejaroja.es/ultimoeuropeo-a.htm|title=El último europeo: Imperialismo, xenofóbia y la derecha radical en la Unión Europea|website=www.laovejaroja.es}}</ref> (In Spanish.) Madrid: La oveja roja.
* Böröcz József. 2017. ''Hasított fa. A világrendszer-elmélettől a globális struktúraváltásokig'' (In Hungarian). Budapest: l’Harmattan.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.libri.hu/konyv/borocz_jozsef.hasitott-fa.html|title=Hasított fa (Böröcz József)|via=www.libri.hu}}</ref>
* Böröcz József. 2017. ''Hasított fa. A világrendszer-elmélettől a globális struktúraváltásokig'' (In Hungarian). Budapest: l’Harmattan.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.libri.hu/konyv/borocz_jozsef.hasitott-fa.html|title=Hasított fa (Böröcz József)|via=www.libri.hu}}</ref>
* Böröcz József. 2018. ''Az EU és a világ. Kritikai elemzés.'' (In Hungarian). Budapest: Pesti Kalligram.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.libri.hu/konyv/borocz_jozsef.az-eu-es-a-vilag.html|title=Az EU és a világ (Böröcz József)|via=www.libri.hu}}</ref>
* Böröcz József. 2018. ''Az EU és a világ. Kritikai elemzés.'' (In Hungarian). Budapest: Pesti Kalligram.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.libri.hu/konyv/borocz_jozsef.az-eu-es-a-vilag.html|title=Az EU és a világ (Böröcz József)|via=www.libri.hu}}</ref>

Latest revision as of 04:59, 25 November 2024

József Böröcz (born 1956, Budapest, Hungary) is a historical sociologist, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University since July 1, 2024.[1] He earned his PhD in Sociology at The Johns Hopkins University in 1992. He has a Dr. Sc. degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2004).[1] According to Google Scholar, Böröcz's H-Index score is 31.[2]

Life

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József Böröcz grew up in Budapest, Hungary.[3] He attended Petőfi Gimnázium.[4] He studied literature, linguistics, culture theory, as well as Polish at Kossuth Lajos University of Sciences in Debrecen between 1976 and 1982.[4] As a student in Hungary, he published on the sociology of tourism both in Hungarian and English.[4]

After graduation, he worked for a year in Budapest as a freelance translator from English. In September 1983, he became a Hungarian-as-ancestral-language instructor in the elementary and high schools of Albany, Louisiana. During his two years in Louisiana, he attended the PhD-Program in Sociology at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

In 1985, he returned to Budapest and became research associate at one of Hungary's leading empirical social science research institutions at the time, the Mass Communication Research Center.[4] He continued his PhD-training in the Program in Comparative International Development in the Department of Sociology at The Johns Hopkins University in 1986, where he soon became an academic advisee of, and research assistant to, Alejandro Portes. With Portes, he worked on issues of international labor migration. His dissertation examined the effects of international tourism on socioeconomic, political and cultural life, through on a world-historical perspective, a European overview, and an Austro-Hungarian comparison.[5] He received his PhD in 1992. In 2004, he earned his Dr.Sc. degree in sociology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.[4]

From 1992 to 1995, he was Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Irvine.[4]

He joined Rutgers University in 1995 as senior faculty in the Department of Sociology and Director of Rutgers' newly established Institute for Hungarian Studies. He passed on the directorship of the institute in 2007.[4] At the Department of Sociology at Rutgers, he founded the Political and Economic Sociology area in 1996 and was one of the co-founders of the Global Structures area in 2012. He became Emeritus Professor on July 1, 2024.

Recognition

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  • Knight Cross of the Merit of Honor of the Republic of Hungary 2005.[6] He renounced the award in protest due to the government honoring a racist journalist.[7]
  • Immanuel Wallerstein Chair in Global Ethics for 2005-2006,[8] University of Ghent, Belgium
  • Hungarian Heritage Award 1998[9]
  • Honorable Mention, "The European Union and Global Social Change", book award competition of the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association[10]
  • "For József Böröcz Being 60."[11] Online Festschrift for 60th Birthday
  • Radnóti Miklós Collective Anti-Racism Award of the Hungarian Federation of Anti-Fascists and Resistance Fighters 2017
  • Senior Fulbright Researcher at the Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, September 2019 - June 2020[12]

Books

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  • David A. Smith and József Böröcz (eds.) 1995. A New World Order? Global Transformation in the Late 20th Century. Greenwood Press (A Praeger Imprint). Hard cover and paperback.
  • József Böröcz. 1996. Leisure Migration: A Sociological Study on Tourism.[5] Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press (An Elsevier Science Imprint). Hard cover.
  • József Böröcz and Melinda Kovács (eds.). 2001. Empire’s New Clothes: Unveiling EU-Enlargement. E-Book, a Central Europe Review imprint. [1], 3 December. ISBN 1-84287-009-2. Hungarian version: Böröcz József és Kovács Melinda (szerk.). 2001. EU-birodalom. Thematic bloc in Replika.[13] 45-46 (November): 23-151.
  • József Böröcz. 2009, 2010. The European Union and Global Social Change: A Critical Geopolitical-Economic Analysis.[14] Oxford, UK: Routledge. Hardback and e-book: 2009 and 2010; paperback: 2010.
  • Ángel Ferrero, József Böröcz, Corina Tulbure y Roger Suso. 2014. El último europeo: Imperialismo, xenofóbia y la derecha radical en la Unión Europea.[15] (In Spanish.) Madrid: La oveja roja.
  • Böröcz József. 2017. Hasított fa. A világrendszer-elmélettől a globális struktúraváltásokig (In Hungarian). Budapest: l’Harmattan.[16]
  • Böröcz József. 2018. Az EU és a világ. Kritikai elemzés. (In Hungarian). Budapest: Pesti Kalligram.[17]
  • Böröcz József és Fáber Ágoston (szerk.). 2021. Ott kívül a magyarázat. Társadalomkritikai beszélgetések Böröcz Józseffel. (In Hungarian). Budapest: Eszmélet zsebkönyvtár.[18]

References

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  1. ^ a b "József Böröcz". sociology.rutgers.edu.
  2. ^ "Jozsef Borocz". Google Scholar.
  3. ^ Shabeer, Muhammed (1 December 2019). ""A new kind of right-wing extremism is on a roll in Hungary"". peoplesdispatch.org.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "József Böröcz Curriculum Vitae". sociology.rutgers.edu.
  5. ^ a b Borocz, Jozsef (November 22, 1996). Leisure Migration: A Sociological Study on Tourism. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISBN 9780080425603 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ "Állami díjak és elismerések augusztus 20. alkalmából". fotomedia.hu (in Hungarian). 19 August 2005.
  7. ^ Böröcz, József. "Renouncement of state award in Hungary". academia.edu.
  8. ^ "Research Group Communities Comparisons Connections | CCC Roots". www.ccc.ugent.be.
  9. ^ "Eddigi díjazottak". Eddigi díjazottak. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012.
  10. ^ "The Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association". asapews.org.
  11. ^ "ANNIVERSARY". karl-polanyi-center.
  12. ^ "American Grantees 2020-21". en.fulbright.edu.pl.
  13. ^ "replika". scripta.c3.hu.
  14. ^ Böröcz, József (September 10, 2009). The European Union and Global Social Change: A Critical Geopolitical-Economic Analysis. Routledge – via Amazon.
  15. ^ "El último europeo: Imperialismo, xenofóbia y la derecha radical en la Unión Europea". www.laovejaroja.es.
  16. ^ Hasított fa (Böröcz József) – via www.libri.hu.
  17. ^ Az EU és a világ (Böröcz József) – via www.libri.hu.
  18. ^ Ott kívül a magyarázat. Társadalomkritikai beszélgetések Böröcz Józseffel.
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