Iván Szelényi
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Department of Sociology
Yale University
Yale University
Office Location :
80 Sachem Street
Phone :
+1-203-432-6985
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+1-203-432-6976
Email : ivan.szelenyi@yale.edu
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William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology
Professor of Political Science
Iván Szelényi (Ph.D. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1973) works on social inequalities from a comparative and historical perspective. Recently, he conducted large scale surveys on changing stratification system in European post-communist countries and currently he is working on poverty and ethnicity in transitional societies. His last book Patterns of Exclusion was published in 2006 by Columbia University Press. His earlier publications include The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power (Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1979), Urban Inequalities Under State Socialism (Oxford University Press, 1983), Socialist Entrepreneurs (Polity Press, 1988), Making Capitalism Without Capitalists (Verso, 1998), Poverty, Ethnicity and Gender in Eastern Europe During the Market Transition (with R. Emigh, Greenwood Press, 2001), and Theories of the New Class: Intellectuals and Power (with L. King, University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
Recent Publications
Books
- Szelényi, Iván and János Ladányi (2006). Patterns of Exclusion: Constructing Gypsy Ethnicity and the Making of an Underclass in Transitional Societies of Europe. New York: Columbia University Press.
- King, Lawrence P. and Iván Szelényi (2004). Theories of the New Class: Intellectuals and Power. University of Minnesota Press.
- Emigh, Rebecca Jean and Iván; Szelényi (eds.) (2001). Poverty, Ethnicity and Gender in Eastern Europe During the Market Transition. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
- Eyal, Gil, Iván Szelényi and Eleanor Townsley (1998). Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe. London: Verso.
Chapters
- Szelényi, Iván (forthcoming). “The Rise and Fall of the Second Bildungsbürgertum,” in B. Szelényi and P. Reill (eds.), Core, Periphery and Globalization. Toronto: Toronto University Press.
- Szelényi, Iván and Lawrence P. King (2005). “The New Capitalism of Eastern Europe: Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Post-communism,” in N. Smelser and R. Swedberg (eds.), Handbook of Economic Sociology. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Szelényi, Iván and Christy M. Glass (2003). “Winners of the Reforms: The New Economic and Political Elite,” in V. Mikhalev (ed.), Inequality and Social Structure During the Transition. Macmillan Press.
- Szelényi, Iván and János Ladányi (2002). “Prospects and Limits on New Social Democracy in Transitional Societies of Central Europe,” in A. Bozoki and J. T. Ishiyama (eds.), Communist Successor Parties a Decade After: Reform or Transmutation? Armonk, NY: Sharpe.
- Szelényi, Iván and Eric Hanley (2001). “Changing Social Structure During Market Transition: The Case of Central Europe,” pp. 101-148 in F. Tarifa (ed.), The Breakdown of State Socialism and the Emerging Post-Socialist Order. The Hague: Center for the Study of Transition and Development.
- Szelényi, Iván; Rebecca Emigh and Eva Fodor (2001). “The Racialization and Feminization of Poverty?” pp. 1-32 in R. Emigh and I. Szelényi (eds.), Poverty, Ethnicity and Gender in Eastern Europe During the Market Transition. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Articles
- Szelényi, Iván and Lawrence P. King (forthcoming). “Max Weber’s Theory of Capitalism and Varieties of Post-communist Capitalisms,” Angewandte Sozialforschung.
- Szelényi, Iván and János Ladányi (2005). “Patterns of Exclusion: Historical Changes in the Structural Position of Roma in a Central European Village,” Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, 160: 66-87. (In French.)
- Szelényi, Iván and János Ladányi (2005). “Poverty After the Fall of Socialism: Over-Time and Cross-National Comparisons,” The Analyst, October. (In Hungarian and English.)
- Szelényi, Iván, Gil Eyal and Eleanor Townsley (2003). “On Irony: An Invitation to Neo-Classical Sociology,” Thesis Eleven, 73: 5-41. (Published in German in Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 13 (1): 5-34, 2003.)
- Szelényi, Iván and János Ladányi (2003). “Historical Variations in Inter-Ethnic Relations: Toward a Social History of Roma in Csenyéte, 1857-2000,” Romani Studies, 13 (1): 1-51.
- Szelényi, Iván and János Ladányi (2002). “The Nature and Social Determinants of Roma Poverty: A Cross-National Comparison,” Review of Sociology, 2.
- Szelényi, Iván (2002). “An Outline of the Social History of Socialism, Or an Auto-Critique of an Autocritique,” Research in Social Stratification, 19: 36-65.
- Szelényi, Iván (2001). “Poverty, Ethnicity and Gender in Transitional Societies: Introduction,” Review of Sociology, 2: 5-10.
- Szelényi, Iván and János Ladányi (2001). “Social Construction of Roma Ethnicity in Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary During Market Transition,” Review of Sociology, 2: 78-89.
- Szelényi, Iván, Gil Eyal and Eleanor Townsley (2001). “The Utopia of Postsocialist Theory and the Ironic View of History in Neoclassical Sociology,” American Journal of Sociology, 106 (4): 1121-1128.
Courses and Seminars
Undergraduate
- SOCY151, Foundations of Modern Social Theory.
- SOCY160, Methods of Inquiry.
- SOCY332, Class, Race and Gender.
- SOCY337, Urban Poverty and Policy.
- SOCY471, Individual Study (Fall); SOCY472, Individual Study (Spring)
- SOCY491, Senior Essay and Colloquium for Non-Intensive Majors (Fall); SOCY492, (Spring)
- SOCY493, Senior Essay and Colloquium for Intensive Majors.
Graduate
- SOCY501: Foundations of Sociological Theory.
- SOCY526: Social Stratification.
- SOCY560: Comparative Research Workshop.