Judit Takács
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 177389 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Judit Takács |
| PRENOMES | Judit |
| SOBRENOME | Takács |
| ASSINATURA | TAKÁCS J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Centre for Social Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7509-0739 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 139 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Is Opposition to Same-Sex Parenting the Mirror Image of Support? Evidence from 26 European Countries
There is a vast literature on how various socio-demographic characteristics shape attitudes toward the rights of gays, lesbians, and same-sex couples. Most studies assume that support for and opposition to these rights are the endpoints of a single scale on which variables have a symmetric effect. Our paper challenges this assumption and examines whether the most commonly used variables that typically predict attitudes toward homosexuality have d…
Involved Fatherhood Ideals and Practices in European Post‐Socialist Societies
This thematic issue examines how involved fatherhood is negotiated across post‐socialist Europe, where expectations of paternal engagement remain unevenly institutionalised and practiced. Bringing together seventeen contributions covering eleven post‐socialist countries and a 16‐country comparison, the issue analyses how fathers navigate tensions between traditional breadwinner norms and emerging caregiving ideals. The articles reveal substantial…
Cross-cultural challenges in generative AI
Previous discussions have highlighted the need for generative AI tools to become more culturally sensitive, yet often neglect the complexities of handling content about marginalized groups, who are perceived differently across cultures and religions. Our study examined the responses of two generative AI systems to homophobic statements and explored how their outputs varied when different societal and religious context information about the user w…
Pandemic policymaking in European populist and liberal democracies
This study compares COVID-19 pandemic policymaking in Hungary and Portugal. These EU member states are similar in most factors that potentially shape the health policy outcome of a pandemic: the level of economic development, the centralization of public administration system and legislature, and the health crisis management preparedness. Yet, the health policy outcome of COVID-19 differs significantly in favour of Portugal. Our expectation is th…
Gender Equality Barriers in Agriculture and Life Sciences in Central European Universities
The European Union aims to foster research excellence, among others, by increasing gender equality (GE) in the European research area. The mandatory introduction of gender equality plans (GEP) mobilised universities to assess, target, and monitor GE in different fields of science. A wide range of barriers have been explored in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), characterised by the low participation of women. However…
Gender Equality Plans in European Research Performing Organisations
This thematic issue explores diverse perspectives on the experiences of European research performing organisations (RPOs) and their stakeholders in designing, implementing, and evaluating Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in practice. The 16 articles included apply a wide range of methodologies, from single organisation case studies to international comparative qualitative and quantitative analyses. To address the complexities of whether and how GEPs …
The impact of political-demographic considerations on European attitudes towards parenting and adoption by same-sex couples
This study investigates attitudes towards the adoption rights and parenting skills of same-sex couples in 25 European countries using data from the European Social Survey and the European Values Study. The aim is to explore how political-demographic processes and various types of pronatalism intersect and shape attitudes towards same-sex parenting issues. Our hierarchical regression analysis reveals that similar social groups generally accept bot…
This year the Pride represented a tipping point« – the 2025 Pride Parade in Budapest, the restrictions of LGBTIQ+ rights and gender and queer studies in Hungary
University Students' Condom Use During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Humans instinctively adopt methods to reduce their risk of encountering harmful pathogens, yet their adherence to preventive health practices can often be erratic. Condoms exemplify one vital preventive tool against sexually transmitted infections (STIs) that, despite their effectiveness, are not consistently utilized. This pattern of behavior appears to persist even during periods of widespread disease transmission, with varied data from the COV…
Compromising Priests and Nuns Under State Socialism
This article is based on the results of archival research in 20th century Hungary concerning the practices and consequences of state policing of homosexuality under state socialism. Two cases will be examined in detail. One is related to the court case of a Catholic priest caught performing homosexual acts, whose testimonies were intended to be used by the secret services to compromise other members of the clergy. The other case is special becaus…
Paradoxical Right-Wing Sexual Politics in Europe
Hogyan hatott a Covid19-pandémia a reprodukciós döntésekre Magyarországon
Ebben a kutatásban arra kerestük a választ, hogy a Covid19-világjárvány hogyan hatott a reprodukciós döntésekre Magyarországon. A kérdés megválaszolásához félig strukturált interjúkat készítettünk 2020 őszén 18 és 45 év közötti gyermektelen vagy egygyermekes férfiakkal és nőkkel. Az eredmények azt mutatják, hogy a világjárvány leginkább az egészségügyi ellátórendszerre nehezedő terhek által hatott a reprodukciós döntésekre. Különösen a gyermekes …
Fragile Pronatalism and Reproductive Futures in European Post‐Socialist Contexts
This editorial seeks to define fragile pronatalism by highlighting why pronatalism in the examined Central and Eastern European post‐socialist countries should be considered fragile. Moreover, it aims to map desirable future changes in fertility policies in the region. Following a brief presentation of the articles contained in this thematic issue, our concluding thoughts complete this editorial
Exploring Older Men’s Pathways to Childlessness in Hungary
In many post‐socialist countries, there is a strong social ideal that, in order to live a fulfilled life, men and women should have children; thus “childfree” lifestyles are much less popular than in North‐Western Europe. In this article, we explore factors leading to childlessness among men who were mostly socialized under state‐socialist conditions and in the subsequent transition period by analysing 30 in‐depth interviews conducted with hetero…
Resisting Genderphobia in Hungary
In this article, we connect illiberal populism in Hungary with the instrumentalizing of genderphobia through state policies starting from 2010. This became especially salient during the COVID-19 pandemic when a contentious state of emergency laws enabled the government’s ruling by decree. Analyzing relevant pieces of legislation and policy documents, we show how genderphobia became a fundamental feature of an expanding far-right agenda that has b…
Liberating Pathologization
Analyzing the principles, considerations, and official explanations underpinning the (de)criminalization of sexual relations between same-sex partners can highlight that around the mid-twentieth century medicalizing references were used in legal and societal judgments on same-sex intimacy in Hungary (and elsewhere). In this study, we want to illustrate the medicalization process of social issues that otherwise seem difficult to “solve” (i.e., the…
Public health preparedness and response synergies between institutional authorities and the community
A set of good practices emerged from this study, that could be applied in these and other settings. They included the potential value of conducting stakeholder analyses of community actors with a stake in tick-borne or other zoonotic diseases; of utilising pre-existing stakeholder networks for information dissemination; and of monitoring community perceptions of any public health incident, including through social media. Efforts in the two countr…
Linking Labour Division within Families, Work–Life Conflict and Family Policy
This thematic issue aims to shed light on the various ways of linking division of labour within families, work–life conflict and family policy in Europe. This editorial briefly introduces key concepts and provides a general overview of the published articles
Division of Labour, Work–Life Conflict and Family Policy
This thematic issue aims to shed light on different facets of the relationship between division of labour within families and couples, work–life conflict and family policy. In this afterword, we provide a summary of the contributions by emphasizing three main aspects in need of further scrutiny: the conceptualisation of labour division within families and couples, the multilevel structure of relationships and the interactions of gender(ed) values…
How involved are involved fathers in Hungary? Exploring caring masculinities in a post-socialist context
This study examines what can enable or constrain Hungarian fathers to be actively involved in care through analysing interviews by applying Hanlon’s approach to caring masculinities as valued identities for men and Dermott’s concept of intimate fathering. The empirical base of this qualitative study – the first of its kind in Hungary – is a collection of 55 semi-structured in-depth interviews. Several interrelated factors were shown as potentiall…
Democracy deficit and homophobic divergence in 21st century Europe
In the present study we focus on the relationship between democracy deficit and homophobic divergence within 21st century European societies. Our main research question is about how social attitudes towards lesbians and gays changed in the examined time period (between 2002 and 2016), and whether there are any signs of convergence regarding these issues in different parts of Europe, characterized by different welfare regimes, a quarter of a centu…
Trans* citizenship in post-socialist societies
This article reports findings from research about trans* citizenship in 14 post-socialist countries. It evidences substantial deficits concerning trans policy making, and a lack of policy debate in this area. Most examined countries have a lack of protocols for official gender change in birth certificates, IDs, passports and other documents. Usually there are no guidelines, measures and procedures defining the standards of healthcare for trans pe…
Our gender ghosts and gender angels
"Unnatural Fornication" Cases Under State-Socialism
This comparative social-historical study examines different versions of state-socialist body politics manifested in Hungary and Slovenia mainly during the 1950s by using archive material of "unnatural fornication" court cases. By analyzing the available Hungarian "természet elleni fajtalanság" and Slovenian "nenaravno občevanje" court cases, we can shed light on how the defendants were treated by the police and the judiciary. On the basis of thes…
Paradoxical right-wing sexual politics in Europe
Agency and Capabilities to Achieve a Work-Life Balance
This study develops a conceptual framework with a capabilities and agency approach for analyzing work–life balance (WLB) applied in two societies (Hungary and Sweden), which have different working time regimes, levels of precarious employment, and gender equality discourses and norms. Inspired by Amartya Sen, we present a model illustrating how agency freedom for WLB depends on multiple resources at the individual, work organizational, institutio…
Social Attitudes Toward Adoption by Same-Sex Couples in Europe
Homophobia and same‐sex partnership legislation in Europe
Purpose This paper seeks to answer the practical question whether the institutionalisation level of same‐sex relationships can affect the social acceptance of lesbian women and gay men in Europe, and highlight some of the factors that can potentially determine the incidence of homophobia in 26 European countries. Design/methodology/approach The study contributes to the literature on acceptance of lesbian women and gay men in Europe by using the E…
Who Remains Childless? Unrealized Fertility Plans in Hungary
This article focuses on remaining childless as a result of certain choices and constraints (not on becoming childless as a result of outliving children). There are two main aims of this study. First it seeks to reveal whether any specific features appear when (temporarily) childless people are compared with those having children in the same cohorts. It also aims to explore what kinds of factors can lead to childlessness (or more precisely, the pr…
Disciplining gender and (homo)sexuality in state-socialist Hungary in the 1970s
This article discusses how gender and (homo)sexual relations were disciplined in Hungary during the 1970s, part of the Kádár era, named after János Kádár, the top political leader of the People's Republic of Hungary between 1956 and 1988. The first part of the article examines the widespread effects of the New Economic Mechanism of 1968 (which could not be rounded off by political reform) on critical thoughts on family formation, as well as some …
Resisting Genderphobia in Hungary
In this article, we connect illiberal populism in Hungary with the instrumentalizing of genderphobia through state policies starting from 2010. This became especially salient during the COVID-19 pandemic when a contentious state of emergency laws enabled the government’s ruling by decree. Analyzing relevant pieces of legislation and policy documents, we show how genderphobia became a fundamental feature of an expanding far-right agenda that has b…
Democracy deficit and homophobic divergence in 21st century Europe
In the present study we focus on the relationship between democracy deficit and homophobic divergence within 21st century European societies. Our main research question is about how social attitudes towards lesbians and gays changed in the examined time period (between 2002 and 2016), and whether there are any signs of convergence regarding these issues in different parts of Europe, characterized by different welfare regimes, a quarter of a centu…
How involved are involved fathers in Hungary? Exploring caring masculinities in a post-socialist context
This study examines what can enable or constrain Hungarian fathers to be actively involved in care through analysing interviews by applying Hanlon’s approach to caring masculinities as valued identities for men and Dermott’s concept of intimate fathering. The empirical base of this qualitative study – the first of its kind in Hungary – is a collection of 55 semi-structured in-depth interviews. Several interrelated factors were shown as potentiall…
Effects of Stigmatization on Gay Men Living with HIV/Aids in a Central-Eastern European Context
Trans* citizenship in post-socialist societies
This article reports findings from research about trans* citizenship in 14 post-socialist countries. It evidences substantial deficits concerning trans policy making, and a lack of policy debate in this area. Most examined countries have a lack of protocols for official gender change in birth certificates, IDs, passports and other documents. Usually there are no guidelines, measures and procedures defining the standards of healthcare for trans pe…
"Unnatural Fornication" Cases Under State-Socialism
This comparative social-historical study examines different versions of state-socialist body politics manifested in Hungary and Slovenia mainly during the 1950s by using archive material of "unnatural fornication" court cases. By analyzing the available Hungarian "természet elleni fajtalanság" and Slovenian "nenaravno občevanje" court cases, we can shed light on how the defendants were treated by the police and the judiciary. On the basis of thes…
The impact of political-demographic considerations on European attitudes towards parenting and adoption by same-sex couples
This study investigates attitudes towards the adoption rights and parenting skills of same-sex couples in 25 European countries using data from the European Social Survey and the European Values Study. The aim is to explore how political-demographic processes and various types of pronatalism intersect and shape attitudes towards same-sex parenting issues. Our hierarchical regression analysis reveals that similar social groups generally accept bot…
Voicing Women in Eastern Europe—An Introduction
This special issue maps out real and symbolic spaces of women who are attracted to women in Eastern Europe, and highlights some of the challenges they face. One of the main themes emerging from the articles is that constructing spaces for women outside the heterosexual mainstream can be a useful political strategy in societies where non-conventional sexual interests, attractions, and gender expression have discriminative consequences. All of the …
Gender Equality Plans in European Research Performing Organisations
This thematic issue explores diverse perspectives on the experiences of European research performing organisations (RPOs) and their stakeholders in designing, implementing, and evaluating Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in practice. The 16 articles included apply a wide range of methodologies, from single organisation case studies to international comparative qualitative and quantitative analyses. To address the complexities of whether and how GEPs …
Fragile Pronatalism and Reproductive Futures in European Post‐Socialist Contexts
This editorial seeks to define fragile pronatalism by highlighting why pronatalism in the examined Central and Eastern European post‐socialist countries should be considered fragile. Moreover, it aims to map desirable future changes in fertility policies in the region. Following a brief presentation of the articles contained in this thematic issue, our concluding thoughts complete this editorial
Exploring Older Men’s Pathways to Childlessness in Hungary
In many post‐socialist countries, there is a strong social ideal that, in order to live a fulfilled life, men and women should have children; thus “childfree” lifestyles are much less popular than in North‐Western Europe. In this article, we explore factors leading to childlessness among men who were mostly socialized under state‐socialist conditions and in the subsequent transition period by analysing 30 in‐depth interviews conducted with hetero…
Linking Labour Division within Families, Work–Life Conflict and Family Policy
This thematic issue aims to shed light on the various ways of linking division of labour within families, work–life conflict and family policy in Europe. This editorial briefly introduces key concepts and provides a general overview of the published articles
Division of Labour, Work–Life Conflict and Family Policy
This thematic issue aims to shed light on different facets of the relationship between division of labour within families and couples, work–life conflict and family policy. In this afterword, we provide a summary of the contributions by emphasizing three main aspects in need of further scrutiny: the conceptualisation of labour division within families and couples, the multilevel structure of relationships and the interactions of gender(ed) values…
Post-Socialist Intimacies - A Meta-Anthropological Approach
Voicing Women in Eastern Europe—An Introduction
This special issue maps out real and symbolic spaces of women who are attracted to women in Eastern Europe, and highlights some of the challenges they face. One of the main themes emerging from the articles is that constructing spaces for women outside the heterosexual mainstream can be a useful political strategy in societies where non-conventional sexual interests, attractions, and gender expression have discriminative consequences. All of the …
Agency and Capabilities to Achieve a Work-Life Balance
This study develops a conceptual framework with a capabilities and agency approach for analyzing work–life balance (WLB) applied in two societies (Hungary and Sweden), which have different working time regimes, levels of precarious employment, and gender equality discourses and norms. Inspired by Amartya Sen, we present a model illustrating how agency freedom for WLB depends on multiple resources at the individual, work organizational, institutio…
Homophobia and same‐sex partnership legislation in Europe
Purpose This paper seeks to answer the practical question whether the institutionalisation level of same‐sex relationships can affect the social acceptance of lesbian women and gay men in Europe, and highlight some of the factors that can potentially determine the incidence of homophobia in 26 European countries. Design/methodology/approach The study contributes to the literature on acceptance of lesbian women and gay men in Europe by using the E…
Effects of Stigmatization on Gay Men Living with HIV/Aids in a Central-Eastern European Context
A sense of entitlement? Agency and capabilities in Sweden and Hungary
Using a unique specifically designed for analysing the capabilities and agency gap, conducted in Budapest and Stockholm, chapter 3 compares two societies with a long history of the dual-earner family model, focusing on different worklife balance policies. The survey enabled to access the cognitive level of capabilities, perceptions of the scope of alternatives and a sense of entitlement to make claims. The weak capabilities and agency for WLB amo…
Disciplining gender and (homo)sexuality in state-socialist Hungary in the 1970s
This article discusses how gender and (homo)sexual relations were disciplined in Hungary during the 1970s, part of the Kádár era, named after János Kádár, the top political leader of the People's Republic of Hungary between 1956 and 1988. The first part of the article examines the widespread effects of the New Economic Mechanism of 1968 (which could not be rounded off by political reform) on critical thoughts on family formation, as well as some …
Who Remains Childless? Unrealized Fertility Plans in Hungary
This article focuses on remaining childless as a result of certain choices and constraints (not on becoming childless as a result of outliving children). There are two main aims of this study. First it seeks to reveal whether any specific features appear when (temporarily) childless people are compared with those having children in the same cohorts. It also aims to explore what kinds of factors can lead to childlessness (or more precisely, the pr…
Emergence of the Hungarian homosexual movement in late refrigerator socialism
Based on archive research and interviews with activists who were affiliated with the early homosexual subculture in Budapest, this article traces the transformation of a secretive and socially invisible subculture (that was based mainly on sexual exchange between men) to the establishment of the first formal homosexual organization and the emerging homosexual movement at the end of the 1980s. The article illustrates how the emergence of HIV/AIDS …
Social Attitudes Toward Adoption by Same-Sex Couples in Europe
Our gender ghosts and gender angels
"Unnatural Fornication" Cases Under State-Socialism
This comparative social-historical study examines different versions of state-socialist body politics manifested in Hungary and Slovenia mainly during the 1950s by using archive material of "unnatural fornication" court cases. By analyzing the available Hungarian "természet elleni fajtalanság" and Slovenian "nenaravno občevanje" court cases, we can shed light on how the defendants were treated by the police and the judiciary. On the basis of thes…
Trans* citizenship in post-socialist societies
This article reports findings from research about trans* citizenship in 14 post-socialist countries. It evidences substantial deficits concerning trans policy making, and a lack of policy debate in this area. Most examined countries have a lack of protocols for official gender change in birth certificates, IDs, passports and other documents. Usually there are no guidelines, measures and procedures defining the standards of healthcare for trans pe…
How involved are involved fathers in Hungary? Exploring caring masculinities in a post-socialist context
This study examines what can enable or constrain Hungarian fathers to be actively involved in care through analysing interviews by applying Hanlon’s approach to caring masculinities as valued identities for men and Dermott’s concept of intimate fathering. The empirical base of this qualitative study – the first of its kind in Hungary – is a collection of 55 semi-structured in-depth interviews. Several interrelated factors were shown as potentiall…
Democracy deficit and homophobic divergence in 21st century Europe
In the present study we focus on the relationship between democracy deficit and homophobic divergence within 21st century European societies. Our main research question is about how social attitudes towards lesbians and gays changed in the examined time period (between 2002 and 2016), and whether there are any signs of convergence regarding these issues in different parts of Europe, characterized by different welfare regimes, a quarter of a centu…
Linking Labour Division within Families, Work–Life Conflict and Family Policy
This thematic issue aims to shed light on the various ways of linking division of labour within families, work–life conflict and family policy in Europe. This editorial briefly introduces key concepts and provides a general overview of the published articles
Division of Labour, Work–Life Conflict and Family Policy
This thematic issue aims to shed light on different facets of the relationship between division of labour within families and couples, work–life conflict and family policy. In this afterword, we provide a summary of the contributions by emphasizing three main aspects in need of further scrutiny: the conceptualisation of labour division within families and couples, the multilevel structure of relationships and the interactions of gender(ed) values…
Liberating Pathologization
Analyzing the principles, considerations, and official explanations underpinning the (de)criminalization of sexual relations between same-sex partners can highlight that around the mid-twentieth century medicalizing references were used in legal and societal judgments on same-sex intimacy in Hungary (and elsewhere). In this study, we want to illustrate the medicalization process of social issues that otherwise seem difficult to “solve” (i.e., the…
Public health preparedness and response synergies between institutional authorities and the community
A set of good practices emerged from this study, that could be applied in these and other settings. They included the potential value of conducting stakeholder analyses of community actors with a stake in tick-borne or other zoonotic diseases; of utilising pre-existing stakeholder networks for information dissemination; and of monitoring community perceptions of any public health incident, including through social media. Efforts in the two countr…
Paradoxical Right-Wing Sexual Politics in Europe
Hogyan hatott a Covid19-pandémia a reprodukciós döntésekre Magyarországon
Ebben a kutatásban arra kerestük a választ, hogy a Covid19-világjárvány hogyan hatott a reprodukciós döntésekre Magyarországon. A kérdés megválaszolásához félig strukturált interjúkat készítettünk 2020 őszén 18 és 45 év közötti gyermektelen vagy egygyermekes férfiakkal és nőkkel. Az eredmények azt mutatják, hogy a világjárvány leginkább az egészségügyi ellátórendszerre nehezedő terhek által hatott a reprodukciós döntésekre. Különösen a gyermekes …
Fragile Pronatalism and Reproductive Futures in European Post‐Socialist Contexts
This editorial seeks to define fragile pronatalism by highlighting why pronatalism in the examined Central and Eastern European post‐socialist countries should be considered fragile. Moreover, it aims to map desirable future changes in fertility policies in the region. Following a brief presentation of the articles contained in this thematic issue, our concluding thoughts complete this editorial
Exploring Older Men’s Pathways to Childlessness in Hungary
In many post‐socialist countries, there is a strong social ideal that, in order to live a fulfilled life, men and women should have children; thus “childfree” lifestyles are much less popular than in North‐Western Europe. In this article, we explore factors leading to childlessness among men who were mostly socialized under state‐socialist conditions and in the subsequent transition period by analysing 30 in‐depth interviews conducted with hetero…
Resisting Genderphobia in Hungary
In this article, we connect illiberal populism in Hungary with the instrumentalizing of genderphobia through state policies starting from 2010. This became especially salient during the COVID-19 pandemic when a contentious state of emergency laws enabled the government’s ruling by decree. Analyzing relevant pieces of legislation and policy documents, we show how genderphobia became a fundamental feature of an expanding far-right agenda that has b…
Paradoxical right-wing sexual politics in Europe
Sociology (25 obras) · Political science (24 obras) · Gender Studies (17 obras) · Law (16 obras) · Politics (14 obras) · Gender Studies (12 obras) · Psychology (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · European history and politics (8 obras)