TK SZI Voices of the 20th Century Archive and Research Group

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The ’Voices of the 20th Century Archive and Research Group’, having started its activity in the spring of 2009 at the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, collects the heritage of qualitative sociological studies and renders it accessible for research.

Collection of Ilona Liskó

10 research projects in the sociology of education

Farm school. Újfehértó, Vadastag, 1973.
Fortepan No. 139057

Forced labor 1939-1945

19 interviews concducted in Hungarian

1944. Fortepan No.116520

Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project (Hungarian interviews)

Life history interviews with former prisoners of Mauthausen

Hungarian victim's monument.
Mauthausen, Austria, 1969.
Fortepan No. 126729

Collection of Éva Kovács

Attitudes towards the ‘stranger’ and the ‘foreigner’; memory of the Kádár era

Hungarian Young Communist League (KISZ) work camp,
Lakitelek Tőserdő, 1974.
Fortepan No. 88449

Collection of Pál Diósi

Prostitutes and entrepreneurs near Balaton in the early 1990s

Balatonlelle, Rákóczi út, 1974.
Fortepan No. 66038

Collection of Antal Örkény Antal and Mária Kovács M. Mária: Cadres

The book, fragments of interviews and selected documents

Farewell party for the delegates to the
International Youth Conference at Moscow.
Yard of the Westend Building, Budapest VI., 1957.
Fortepan No. 18140

History of Hungarian sociology: interviews

Researchers using qualitative methods talk about their career and their colleagues

Teréz Kovács and Iván Szelényi sociologists, Bálint Magyar politician
and Pál Juhász agricultural politician. Homokmégy, 1984.
Fortepan No. 30591

Collection of Ágnes Utasi

Research on the way of life, consumption habits, lifestyles, family and other relations

Waiting room at Merkur Passenger Car Sales Company.
Budapest XXI., Csepel Freeport, Petróleum u. 4., 1974.
Fortepan No. 99332

Collection of Péter Somlai

Family relations, socialization in the context of institutions, family and peer group

1982. Fortepan No. 9725

Collection of Judit H. Sas

Research on the way of life of the Hungarian worker during state socialism: children’s drawings and interviews

Colorion, the new color television of the Orion factory
with its creator, senior constructor Gerő Szász.
Budapest X., 1969. Fortepan No. 56037

Collection of Péter Szuhay

Interviews about family history and documents from research on the Roma holocaust

First communion at Domony. 1932.

Collection of Ferenc Pataki

Selected documents from a research project on problems of social integration

Flórián Square, Óbuda, Budapest III., 1982.
Fortepan No. 124599

Research on the workers’ way of life

Factory workers in the 1970s

Girls' circle dance rehearsal of 'Vadrózsák'
Central Art Ensemble of Construction Workers' Trade Union.
MÉMOSZ headquarters, Budapest, 1973.
Fortepan No. 88189

Collection of Ágnes and Gábor Kapitány

Video interviews with representatives of alternative lifestyles from the 2000s

Roma Civil Rights Evenings

Roma politicians are interviewed by the young Roma generation about their role in the institutionalization of Roma politics

Roma public debate in the program 'Napzárta',
Hungarian Television (MTV), 17 September 1989.
Photo © RPA / Indulás

Teleki Square 1944

Documents of a complex research project reconstructing the history of Teleki Square, Budapest

'Blue room', the former women' section
of Teleki Square synagogue before reconstruction.
Photo © Teleki Square Synagogue - András Mayer

Collection of István Síklaki

Language and social psychology, methods of communication, parties and values, education

1970. Fortepan No. 3024

Collection of István Kemény

Interviews, notes and studies from the first representative research on Roma in 1971

István Kemény sociologist (1925-2008)
at the shooting of Houses at the
Edge of the Village, 1972.
Fortepan No. 44351

Collection of Mihály Laki

Research on large and small companies and entrepreneurs before and after the regime change

Visit of János Kádár at the Screw Company.
Budapest XIII. 1982. Fortepan No. 41340

Collection of János Köllő

Economic situation of the manufacturing industry in Hungary between 1975-1989

Iron plant at Ózd. 1986.
Fortepan No. 76099

Collection of Júlia Szalai

Research on ethnic differences in education; system of social assistance; entrepreneurs; educational materials for university courses

I'll Stop the World and Melt With You.
2008. © Martina Mitrovic

Collection of András Gergely A.

Interviews on the Taxi blockade of 1990; research in villages and country towns

Taxi blockade. On the left: Pál Horváth chief organizer.
Kossuth Lajos Square, Budapest V., 1990.
Fortepan No. 138519

Collection of József Rácz

Youth subcultures in Budapest in the 1980s and 1990s

Drug addicts in rehabilitation program.
Roman Catholic Church in Pilisszentkereszt,
1984. Fortepan No. 124401

Collection of Lynn M. Hooker

‘Gypsy music’ and ‘Gypsy musicians’ in contemporary society

Oral History of Hungarian Insurance

Interviews with key actors of the insurance trade in Hungary since the 1980s

MABISZ konferencia, 2012.

Our research projects

About us

The 'Voices of the 20th Century Archive and Research Group' (Research Group) started its activity in the spring of 2009 within the framework of the OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) research project nr. 77566. The mid-term objective of the Research Group is to preserve the audio (and audiovisual) heritage of Hungarian sociology (i.e. mapping and collecting sociological studies, with a special emphasis on those based on qualitative methods, conducted in the course of the past fifty years). Furthermore, in the long run, the project is committed to digitalize as well as to archive the sources and to provide enhanced access to our collections.

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News, Events

Conference on labor research

'Labor research from planned economy to savage capitalism' is the title of a workshop conference organized this fall by Voices of the 20th Century Archive and Research Group together with Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives. The tentative date of the conference is 4 December 2020, and the prospective venue is the Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence (1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4.).

RDC Joins Hungarian Research Data Alliance

The Research Documentation Center (RDC), part of which is Voices of the 20th Century Archive, joined the Hungarian Research Data Alliance in spring 2020.

Ferenc Erős died

Ferenc Erős social psychologist died at 73.