Centre for Social Sciences Institute for SociologyHungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence

Research Interests

social network analysis, family and friendship ties, social exclusion, gender, ageing

Selected Publications

Albert F, Koltai J, Dávid B (2021) The increasing importance of friends: Changes in core discussion network composition in post-communist Hungary between 1997 – 2015. Volume 66, pp. 139-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2021.02.005

Albert F, Dávid B, Hajdu G, Huszti É (2020) Egocentric Contact Networks of Older Adults: Featuring Quantity, Strength and Function of Ties.  The Sociological Quarterly  DOI: 10.1080/00380253.2020.1787111

Albert F, Hajdu G (2020) Association between poverty indicators and social relations. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, vol xx, no xx, 1–23, DOI: 10.1332/175982720X15966472176159. IF 0,952, Q1

Albert F, Dávid B (2018) Interpersonal relationships in Hungary – an overview. Metszetek, 7(2):72-93. DOI 10.18392/metsz/2018/2/6

Kmetty Z, Tardos R, Albert F, Dávid B (2018) Mapping social milieus and cohesion patterns between 1997 and 2014.: Exploiting the potential of the occupational position generator SOCIAL NETWORKS 55:(10) pp. 116-129.

Albert F, Dávid B, Kmetty Z, Kristóf L, Róbert P, Szabó A (2018) Mapping the Post-communist Class Structure: Findings from a New Multidimensional Hungarian Class Survey EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES pp. 1-22.

Albert F, Dávid B (2016) Interpersonal Relationships in Hungary. In: Zhaoke Bin (Ed.) : Beyond the Transition: Social Change in China and Central-Eastern Europe. Social Science Academic Press. 139-160. (in Chinese)

Albert F (2015) Summary of the results . In: Albert F. (ed.) Életkeretek a börtönön innen és túl: Szubjektív reszocializációs esélyek (Life chances in and out of prison: subjective chances of reinsertion) Budapest: MTA Társadalomtudományi Kutatóközpont Szociológiai Intézet, 2015. 178 p. Szociológiai Tanulmányok; 2015/2.) (ISBN: 978-963-8302-47-2) 113-142.

Albert F, Tóth O (2013) Youth Drug and Crime Prevention Practices in Hungary as Reflected in the Opinions of Students and Professionals VARSTVOSLOVJE (ISSN: 1580-0253) 4: pp. 460-479.

Albert F, Dávid B. (2007) Embert barátjáról. A barátság szociológiája. (Birds of a feather. The sociology of friendship) Századvég. Budapest, p. 272

Albert F, Dávid B. (2001) Ha elszakad a háló. A magyarországi hajléktalanság kapcsolathálózati megközelítésben. (If the net breaks. Homelessness in Hungary from a network perspective). Új Mandátum kiadó, Budapest, p. 158

Research Projects

2018-2019 INVOTUNES: National Trade Union Involvement in the European Semester

2017 MTA TK internal grant: A qualitative study of friendship, principal investigator

2013-2017 OTKA (short for Hungarian National Scientific Research Fund) Integration and desintegration processes in Hungarian society, researcher

2013-2014 Hungarian adaptation of the BBC class survey, researcher

2012 – 2015 OTKA Life in and out of prison. Subjective chances of resocialization, project leader

1992: Social network characteristics of foreign students studying in Hungary. OTKA (project leader)

2011-2012: Youth deviance and youth violence: A European multi-agency perspective on best practices in prevention and control. EU Daphne III Programme (researcher)

2010-2011 Social Impact of Emigration and Rural-Urban Migration in Central and Eastern Europe. European Commission. (researcher)

2011-1013 The born and unborn children of the transition: the effects of socio-cultural conditions on demographic processes OTKA (researcher)

2009-2010 Research on labour market reintegration chances of Roma women. In cooperation with the Minority Research Centre of HAS, contracted by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (researcher)

2008-2010 The chances of social integration of young adults with disabilities in Hungary, INNOTÁRS08 (researcher)

2007-2009 CONNECTIONS, EU PROGRESS external expert for the Social Resource Centre, Budapest project to evaluate the peer review method regarding social inclusion projects; 2005-2007 GENDERWISE (EU): The role of men as agents of change in reconciling work and family life (researcher)

2003-2005 „The migration potential of the Roma and the significance of social networks in Roma migration” F 042859 SZO OTKA grant (researcher)

2001-2004 „The social embeddedness of 15-20 year old young people and their parents, and its effect on mental-physical well-being” 1/017/2001 NKFP program (researcher)

2001-2003 „The social embeddedness of 15-20 year old young people and their parents, and its effect on mental-physical well-being” F 034608 OTKA grant (project leader)

2001-2002: „The social embeddedness of 15-20 year old young people and their parents, and its effect on mental-physical well-being, OKTK (project leader)

1999-2001 „Social network analysis of life-course interviews from 1956” F 030686 OTKA grant (researcher)

1996-1999: Homelessness from a social network perspective. OTKA grant. (researcher)