Jozsef Borocz
Biographic Data
| ID | 169083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jozsef Borocz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jozsef |
| FAMILY NAME | Borocz |
| SIGNATURE | BOROCZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4672-4293 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 342 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Will the European Union Absorb Its Poorest Eastern and South-eastern Neighbours, and What Then?
In the autumn of 2024, the European Union lists ten countries as "candidates for full membership". With the exception Türkiye—which has no chance for membership due to a host of political reasons—they are all states created in the disintegration of the former socialist "bloc,” with considerably lower domestic incomes than any country that has ever joined the EU. The biggest–and poorest–among them is war-torn Ukraine. Reviewing the history of the …
Eurofehér” gőg és „piszkosfehér” sérelemérzet
E tanulmány a globális-posztkoloniális „rassz”-kritika kulcsfogalmai segítségével szemléli az európai identitáspolitika jelenlegi strukturális átalakulását. Írásom a „Fehérséggel”, mint a morális-geopolitikai felsőbbrendűség iránti igény kinyilvánításával foglalkozik, amelynek meghatározó alkotóeleme a feltétel nélküli globális kiváltságok iránt megnyilvánuló történelmi és geopolitikai közegtől függetlenül fellépő igény, sőt követelés. A „Fehérsé…
Eurowhite” Conceit, “Dirty White” Ressentment
This paper offers tools to rethink global critical insights on “race” in the contemporary structural transformation of European identity politics from the perspectives of postcolonial global historical sociologies. “Race” regimes rest on the following background assumptions: (1) The claim that humankind consists of a finite number of disjunct (non‐overlapping) “groups,” “populations” or, in the extreme, “races”; (2) The presumption that it is val…
Performing socialist Hungary in China
This paper reconstructs the ways in which the Hungarian People’s Army Performing Arts Ensemble arranged its repertoire to perform socialist Hungary in the autumn of 1956, during the Ensemble’s tour in the People’s Republic of China. The paper performs a close reading of a single archival document, the program of the Ensemble’s début performance before non-European socialist audiences that took place in Shenyang on September 21, 1956. The repertoi…
"The Unbearable Whiteness of the Polish Plumber and the Hungarian Peacock Dance around "Race
This contribution interprets the east-central European post-liberal governments' recent anti-immigrant, anti-refugee and anti-human-rights hysteria in the context of the increasing dependence of the region's societies for livelihood on employment in the western EU, the widespread racialization of east European labor in the western EU, and the refusal of east European political elites and societies at large to consider possible "Left" critiques of…
Film Review
The European Union and Global Social Change
1. Global Economic Weight in the Longue Duree: Nemesis of West European Geopolitics 2. Segments to Regions: Structural Transformation of Global Governance 3. Geopolitics of Property Relations: State Socialism under Global Capitalism 4. Elasticity of Weight: The EU as a Geopolitical Animal
Goodness Is Elsewhere
Reflecting on European colonialism in 1950—at a time when discussions about what we now know as the European Union emerged in western Europe—Aimé Césaire wrote, “... Europe is morally, spiritually indefensible.” 2 This idea is fairly commonplace in much of the post-colonial world and it has some purchase within certain academic and intellectual circles elsewhere. And yet, in the process of denouncing the widely noted 3 presence of racism in Hunga…
What Is the EU
This interpretive article relies on insights from three critical literatures -world-systems analysis, postcolonial studies and, to the extent of an extended simile, the economic sociology of flexible global production -to propose a geo-political understanding of what the European Union (EU) is. The authors begin by interrogating the tendency within much of the current research and commentary on the EU to treat it as a state of sorts. They then ou…
Change Rules
Informality and Nonprofits in East Central European Capitalism
This paper presents an analysis of nonprofit organizations—the organizational infrastructure of civil society—in East Central Europe, from one important respect: by placing them in the context of the comparative historical sociology of the region’s widespread informality. This involves two steps: (1) summarizing an argument about the role of informality in East Central European capitalism today in order to (2) outline its implications for the stu…
Informality Rules
The Fox and the Raven
A series of diplomatic exchanges has recently unfolded between the Hungarian government and the Commission of the European Union. The stakes are historic for the Hungarian side. Hungary formally applied for full membership in the European Union on March 31, 1994, the first country to announce such intentions among the successor states of the former Soviet bloc. Two years later, the Commission sent a lengthy questionnaire about the “state of the a…
National Identity in Contemporary Hungary
National Identity in Contemporary Hungary. György Csepeli. Translated from the Hungarian by Mario D. Fenyo. Boulder, CO: Atlantic Research and Publications, 1997. ix. 347 pp., tables, notes, bibliography, index
Leisure Migration
Tattered Banners
Housing Advantages for the Better Connected? Institutional Segmentation, Settlement Type and Social Network Effects in Hungary's Late State-Socialist Housing Inequalities
This article contextualizes the “market transition debate” on the ongoing institutional transformation of former state socialist societies by examining the system of housing inequalities in Hungary three years before the regime change. It demonstrates that, by then, the differentiation of private housing ownership had already been so advanced that the private-public distinction hides important institutional variation within “private” ownership. A…
Housing Advantages for the Better Connected? Institutional Segmentation, Settlement Type and Social Network Effects in Hungary's Late State- Socialist Housing Inequalities
Judit Bodnar, Jozsef Borocz, Housing Advantages for the Better Connected? Institutional Segmentation, Settlement Type and Social Network Effects in Hungary's Late State- Socialist Housing Inequalities, Social Forces, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Jun., 1998), pp. 1275-1304
Social change with sticky features and the failures of modernizationism
The paper dismisses four ‘western’ models of history and social change, namely progress, rupture, time‐series, and palette. It is argued that none of the four models provides conceptual tools for analysing the historical process as both continuity and change. Increasing the number of analytical components does likewise not provide better results. Instead what is needed is an analytical instrument that captures the complexity of novel constellatio…
Stand Reconstructed
The process is traced whereby crucially important, multiple denotations of classical sociology's key notion referring to social position-the Weberian German concept of Stand-have been stripped to create a simplified and inaccurate representation of social inequalities. Some historical material from central Europe is surveyed, with a brief look at Japan, to demonstrate validity problems created by blanket application of the culturally specific, st…
Cosmopolitan Democracy
Decomposing the Intellectuals' Class Power
Konrad and Szelenyi posed a powerful critique of state socialism with their formulation of the new class theory suggesting that intellectuals were on the road to class power. Using a Weberian reading of Bourdieu, we specify empirically one aspect of that critique and examine the statistical effects of cultural capital on income inequalities in Hungary, 1986. While confirming the independent effects of both education and habitus, - potential and r…
In the Soviet House of Culture
The New Great Transformation? Change and Continuity in East-Central Europe
Leisure Migration
Leisure migration. Travel-capitalism: the structure of Europe and the advent of the tourist. Comparative tourism-growth: Austria and Hungary, 1870-1988. Reconstruction and transformation from without: Austria's and Hungary's external linkages after World War II. Effects of large structures on flows of foreign tourists: Austria and Hungary as destinations, 1960-1984. Monies, policies and representations: the splitting of international leisure migr…
Contemporary Immigration
This article reviews conventional theories about different aspects of labor migration: its origins, stability over time, and patterns of migrant settlement. For each of these aspects, we provide alternative explanatory hypotheses derived from the notions of increasing articulation of the international system and the social embeddedness of its various subprocesses, including labor flows. A typology of sources and outcomes of contemporary immigrati…
Contemporary Immigration
Alejandro Portes, , Contemporary Immigration: Theoretical Perspectives on Its Determinants and Modes of Incorporation, The International Migration Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, Special Silver Anniversary Issue: International Migration an Assessment for the 90's (Autumn, 1989), pp. 606-630
Informality Rules
Eurowhite” Conceit, “Dirty White” Ressentment
This paper offers tools to rethink global critical insights on “race” in the contemporary structural transformation of European identity politics from the perspectives of postcolonial global historical sociologies. “Race” regimes rest on the following background assumptions: (1) The claim that humankind consists of a finite number of disjunct (non‐overlapping) “groups,” “populations” or, in the extreme, “races”; (2) The presumption that it is val…
"The Unbearable Whiteness of the Polish Plumber and the Hungarian Peacock Dance around "Race
This contribution interprets the east-central European post-liberal governments' recent anti-immigrant, anti-refugee and anti-human-rights hysteria in the context of the increasing dependence of the region's societies for livelihood on employment in the western EU, the widespread racialization of east European labor in the western EU, and the refusal of east European political elites and societies at large to consider possible "Left" critiques of…
Goodness Is Elsewhere
Reflecting on European colonialism in 1950—at a time when discussions about what we now know as the European Union emerged in western Europe—Aimé Césaire wrote, “... Europe is morally, spiritually indefensible.” 2 This idea is fairly commonplace in much of the post-colonial world and it has some purchase within certain academic and intellectual circles elsewhere. And yet, in the process of denouncing the widely noted 3 presence of racism in Hunga…
Hungary as a destination 1960–1984
This study examines the effects of macrostructural determinants on the choice of Hungary as a destination during the 1960–1984 period. It uses annual international tourist arrival and tourist-night data. General exit visa restrictions make a strong negative impact, while administrative constraints on travel to the West by some socialist states increase the likelihood of travel to Hungary. The analysis confirms that the home country's world-system…
Simulating the great transformation
Transformations of society-wide organizing principles or, 'systemic' features, of property relations are rare historical occurrences and constitute crucial aspects of social change. The recent architectonic rearrangement of the societies of East-Central Europe is especially remarkable as it represents a move away from a unique, very large-scale, comprehensive social experiment concerning the use of state power in establishing and maintaining puta…
What Is the EU
This interpretive article relies on insights from three critical literatures -world-systems analysis, postcolonial studies and, to the extent of an extended simile, the economic sociology of flexible global production -to propose a geo-political understanding of what the European Union (EU) is. The authors begin by interrogating the tendency within much of the current research and commentary on the EU to treat it as a state of sorts. They then ou…
The Fox and the Raven
A series of diplomatic exchanges has recently unfolded between the Hungarian government and the Commission of the European Union. The stakes are historic for the Hungarian side. Hungary formally applied for full membership in the European Union on March 31, 1994, the first country to announce such intentions among the successor states of the former Soviet bloc. Two years later, the Commission sent a lengthy questionnaire about the “state of the a…
Stand Reconstructed
The process is traced whereby crucially important, multiple denotations of classical sociology's key notion referring to social position-the Weberian German concept of Stand-have been stripped to create a simplified and inaccurate representation of social inequalities. Some historical material from central Europe is surveyed, with a brief look at Japan, to demonstrate validity problems created by blanket application of the culturally specific, st…
Decomposing the Intellectuals' Class Power
Konrad and Szelenyi posed a powerful critique of state socialism with their formulation of the new class theory suggesting that intellectuals were on the road to class power. Using a Weberian reading of Bourdieu, we specify empirically one aspect of that critique and examine the statistical effects of cultural capital on income inequalities in Hungary, 1986. While confirming the independent effects of both education and habitus, - potential and r…
Travel-Capitalism
In one of the twenty lines it allocates to a description of Hungary, the nearly 300-page edition in 1877 of A Satchel Guide for the Vacation Tourist in Europe summarizes the architectural and aesthetic worth of the country's capital city for sightseeing American visitors by pronouncing that, in Budapest, “the churches and the public buildings are of no particular interest” (Satchel 1877:194). Twenty years later, the 1897 edition of that same guid…
Vanguard of the Construction of Capitalism? The Hungarian Intellectuals' Trip to Power
Change Rules
Housing Advantages for the Better Connected? Institutional Segmentation, Settlement Type and Social Network Effects in Hungary's Late State- Socialist Housing Inequalities
Judit Bodnar, Jozsef Borocz, Housing Advantages for the Better Connected? Institutional Segmentation, Settlement Type and Social Network Effects in Hungary's Late State- Socialist Housing Inequalities, Social Forces, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Jun., 1998), pp. 1275-1304
Social change with sticky features and the failures of modernizationism
The paper dismisses four ‘western’ models of history and social change, namely progress, rupture, time‐series, and palette. It is argued that none of the four models provides conceptual tools for analysing the historical process as both continuity and change. Increasing the number of analytical components does likewise not provide better results. Instead what is needed is an analytical instrument that captures the complexity of novel constellatio…
Performing socialist Hungary in China
This paper reconstructs the ways in which the Hungarian People’s Army Performing Arts Ensemble arranged its repertoire to perform socialist Hungary in the autumn of 1956, during the Ensemble’s tour in the People’s Republic of China. The paper performs a close reading of a single archival document, the program of the Ensemble’s début performance before non-European socialist audiences that took place in Shenyang on September 21, 1956. The repertoi…
Informality and Nonprofits in East Central European Capitalism
This paper presents an analysis of nonprofit organizations—the organizational infrastructure of civil society—in East Central Europe, from one important respect: by placing them in the context of the comparative historical sociology of the region’s widespread informality. This involves two steps: (1) summarizing an argument about the role of informality in East Central European capitalism today in order to (2) outline its implications for the stu…
Housing Advantages for the Better Connected? Institutional Segmentation, Settlement Type and Social Network Effects in Hungary's Late State-Socialist Housing Inequalities
This article contextualizes the “market transition debate” on the ongoing institutional transformation of former state socialist societies by examining the system of housing inequalities in Hungary three years before the regime change. It demonstrates that, by then, the differentiation of private housing ownership had already been so advanced that the private-public distinction hides important institutional variation within “private” ownership. A…
Contemporary Immigration
This article reviews conventional theories about different aspects of labor migration: its origins, stability over time, and patterns of migrant settlement. For each of these aspects, we provide alternative explanatory hypotheses derived from the notions of increasing articulation of the international system and the social embeddedness of its various subprocesses, including labor flows. A typology of sources and outcomes of contemporary immigrati…
Contemporary Immigration
Alejandro Portes, , Contemporary Immigration: Theoretical Perspectives on Its Determinants and Modes of Incorporation, The International Migration Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, Special Silver Anniversary Issue: International Migration an Assessment for the 90's (Autumn, 1989), pp. 606-630
Economy and Society in Hungary (Hungarian Sociological Studies 3)
Hungary as a destination 1960–1984
This study examines the effects of macrostructural determinants on the choice of Hungary as a destination during the 1960–1984 period. It uses annual international tourist arrival and tourist-night data. General exit visa restrictions make a strong negative impact, while administrative constraints on travel to the West by some socialist states increase the likelihood of travel to Hungary. The analysis confirms that the home country's world-system…
Vanguard of the Construction of Capitalism? The Hungarian Intellectuals' Trip to Power
Travel-Capitalism
In one of the twenty lines it allocates to a description of Hungary, the nearly 300-page edition in 1877 of A Satchel Guide for the Vacation Tourist in Europe summarizes the architectural and aesthetic worth of the country's capital city for sightseeing American visitors by pronouncing that, in Budapest, “the churches and the public buildings are of no particular interest” (Satchel 1877:194). Twenty years later, the 1897 edition of that same guid…
Simulating the great transformation
Transformations of society-wide organizing principles or, 'systemic' features, of property relations are rare historical occurrences and constitute crucial aspects of social change. The recent architectonic rearrangement of the societies of East-Central Europe is especially remarkable as it represents a move away from a unique, very large-scale, comprehensive social experiment concerning the use of state power in establishing and maintaining puta…
The New Great Transformation? Change and Continuity in East-Central Europe
Cosmopolitan Democracy
Decomposing the Intellectuals' Class Power
Konrad and Szelenyi posed a powerful critique of state socialism with their formulation of the new class theory suggesting that intellectuals were on the road to class power. Using a Weberian reading of Bourdieu, we specify empirically one aspect of that critique and examine the statistical effects of cultural capital on income inequalities in Hungary, 1986. While confirming the independent effects of both education and habitus, - potential and r…
In the Soviet House of Culture
Social change with sticky features and the failures of modernizationism
The paper dismisses four ‘western’ models of history and social change, namely progress, rupture, time‐series, and palette. It is argued that none of the four models provides conceptual tools for analysing the historical process as both continuity and change. Increasing the number of analytical components does likewise not provide better results. Instead what is needed is an analytical instrument that captures the complexity of novel constellatio…
Stand Reconstructed
The process is traced whereby crucially important, multiple denotations of classical sociology's key notion referring to social position-the Weberian German concept of Stand-have been stripped to create a simplified and inaccurate representation of social inequalities. Some historical material from central Europe is surveyed, with a brief look at Japan, to demonstrate validity problems created by blanket application of the culturally specific, st…
Leisure Migration
Tattered Banners
Housing Advantages for the Better Connected? Institutional Segmentation, Settlement Type and Social Network Effects in Hungary's Late State-Socialist Housing Inequalities
This article contextualizes the “market transition debate” on the ongoing institutional transformation of former state socialist societies by examining the system of housing inequalities in Hungary three years before the regime change. It demonstrates that, by then, the differentiation of private housing ownership had already been so advanced that the private-public distinction hides important institutional variation within “private” ownership. A…
Housing Advantages for the Better Connected? Institutional Segmentation, Settlement Type and Social Network Effects in Hungary's Late State- Socialist Housing Inequalities
Judit Bodnar, Jozsef Borocz, Housing Advantages for the Better Connected? Institutional Segmentation, Settlement Type and Social Network Effects in Hungary's Late State- Socialist Housing Inequalities, Social Forces, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Jun., 1998), pp. 1275-1304
Informality and Nonprofits in East Central European Capitalism
This paper presents an analysis of nonprofit organizations—the organizational infrastructure of civil society—in East Central Europe, from one important respect: by placing them in the context of the comparative historical sociology of the region’s widespread informality. This involves two steps: (1) summarizing an argument about the role of informality in East Central European capitalism today in order to (2) outline its implications for the stu…
Informality Rules
The Fox and the Raven
A series of diplomatic exchanges has recently unfolded between the Hungarian government and the Commission of the European Union. The stakes are historic for the Hungarian side. Hungary formally applied for full membership in the European Union on March 31, 1994, the first country to announce such intentions among the successor states of the former Soviet bloc. Two years later, the Commission sent a lengthy questionnaire about the “state of the a…
National Identity in Contemporary Hungary
National Identity in Contemporary Hungary. György Csepeli. Translated from the Hungarian by Mario D. Fenyo. Boulder, CO: Atlantic Research and Publications, 1997. ix. 347 pp., tables, notes, bibliography, index
Change Rules
What Is the EU
This interpretive article relies on insights from three critical literatures -world-systems analysis, postcolonial studies and, to the extent of an extended simile, the economic sociology of flexible global production -to propose a geo-political understanding of what the European Union (EU) is. The authors begin by interrogating the tendency within much of the current research and commentary on the EU to treat it as a state of sorts. They then ou…
Goodness Is Elsewhere
Reflecting on European colonialism in 1950—at a time when discussions about what we now know as the European Union emerged in western Europe—Aimé Césaire wrote, “... Europe is morally, spiritually indefensible.” 2 This idea is fairly commonplace in much of the post-colonial world and it has some purchase within certain academic and intellectual circles elsewhere. And yet, in the process of denouncing the widely noted 3 presence of racism in Hunga…
The European Union and Global Social Change
1. Global Economic Weight in the Longue Duree: Nemesis of West European Geopolitics 2. Segments to Regions: Structural Transformation of Global Governance 3. Geopolitics of Property Relations: State Socialism under Global Capitalism 4. Elasticity of Weight: The EU as a Geopolitical Animal
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