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József Böröcz (born 1956, Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian-American sociologist who is currently Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. He earned his PhD in Sociology at
The Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consiste ...
in 1992. He has a Dr. Sc. degree from the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( hu, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, MTA) is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. Its ma ...
(2004). According to Google Scholar, Böröcz's H-Index score is 29.


Life

József Böröcz grew up in Budapest, Hungary. He attended Petőfi Gimnázium. He studied literature, linguistics, culture theory, as well as Polish at Kossuth Lajos University of Sciences in Debrecen between 1976 and 1982. As a student in Hungary, he published on the sociology of tourism both in Hungarian and English. After graduation, he worked for a year 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
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. 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. He continued his PhD-training in the Program in Comparative International Development in the Department of Sociology at 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. He received his PhD in 1992. In 2004, he earned his Dr.Sc. degree in sociology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. From 1992 to 1995, he was Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Irvine. 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. At the Department of Sociology at Rutgers, he founded th
Political and Economic Sociology
area in 1996 and was one of the co-founders of th
Global Structures
area in 2012.


Recognition

* Knight Cross of the Merit of Honor of the Republic of Hungary 2005. (He renounced the award in protest due to the government honoring a racist journalist.) * Immanuel Wallerstein Chair in Global Ethics for 2005-2006, University of Ghent, Belgium * Hungarian Heritage Award 1998 * 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 * "For József Böröcz Being 60." 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


Books

* 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''. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press (An Elsevier Science Imprint). Hard cover. * József Böröcz and
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(eds.). 2001. ''Empire’s New Clothes: Unveiling EU-Enlargement''. E-Book, a Central Europe Review imprint

, 3 December. . Hungarian version: Böröcz József és Kovács Melinda (szerk.). 2001. ''EU-birodalom''. Thematic bloc in Replika. 45-46 (November): 23-151. * József Böröcz. 2009, 2010. ''The European Union and Global Social Change: A Critical Geopolitical-Economic Analysis''. Oxford, UK: Routledge. Hardback and e-book: 2009 and 2010; paperback: 2010. *
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, József Böröcz,
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. 2014. ''El último europeo: Imperialismo, xenofóbia y la derecha radical en la Unión Europea''. (In Spanish.) Madrid: La oveja roja. * Böröcz József. 2017. ''Hasított fa. A világrendszer-elmélettől a globális struktúraváltásokig'' (In Hungarian). Budapest: l’Harmattan. * Böröcz József. 2018. ''Az EU és a világ. Kritikai elemzés.'' (In Hungarian). Budapest: Pesti Kalligram. * Böröcz József és Fáber Ágoston (szerk.). 2021. ''Ott kívül a magyarázat. Társadalomkritikai beszélgetések Böröcz Józseffel.'' (In Hungarian). Budapest: Eszmélet zsebkönyvtár.


References


External links


József Böröcz's
papers, syllabi, book reviews, op-ed pieces and videos can be accessed at Academia.edu. {{DEFAULTSORT:Borocz, Jozsef 1956 births Living people American sociologists Hungarian sociologists Rutgers University faculty Johns Hopkins University alumni