Some Pandemic Reflections from the “Sociology at the Dawn of a Successful Century?” Conference

Abstract

The Centre for Social Sciences (Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence) held a conference entitled Sociology at the Dawn of a Successful Century? on October 8-9, 2020 in Budapest. The concept of the conference was built around Dénes Némedi’s 20-year-old article and its updates. The ambitious goal of the organizers was nothing less than to review the state of Hungarian sociology and its latest research results. In this spirit, the plenary speaker, Károly Takács (Linköping University and CSS-RECENS, Centre for Social Sciences), first approached this complex subject from the perspective of teaching sociology, and then – among other things – argued for a reflexive sociology. (...)