University of Miskolc, Hungary
​The University of Miskolc looks back to a history of more than 275 years. The world’s first higher education institution of technology, the Mining Academy of Selmecbánya, represented special knowledge and value. Its heritage and relics pervade the life of our University even today. The demand for a change in the educational system gave rise to the intention to complete technical faculties with ones offering programmes in social sciences. Law courses started in 1981, and an independent Faculty of Law was established in 1983. It was at this time that the objective was formulated that the university should rise to the level of universitas in the classical sense.The next development step was the launching of a programme in economics, followed by the establishment of the relevant faculty in 1990.As of 1 July, 1990, the name of the university was changed to University of Miskolc (Hungarian abbreviation: ME). In 1992, the Institute of Arts was founded. It became a faculty in September 1997.In 1997, following its separation from the college, the Miskolc department of Liszt Ferenc College of Music was integrated into the university as its Bartók Béla Music Institute.
Kinga Szabó-Tóth, PhD. is a senior lecturer in sociology and social work at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Miskolc. She is also the director of the Institure as well as the vice-dean of the Faculty. Her research interests covers: sociology of culture, sociology of communities, sociology of families.
Kinga Szabó-Tóth
Researcher
This project is based at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences.
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The Institute’s 15 full-time staff are dedicated to bringing the methods of social sciences enquiry to bear on such topics as socail innovation, the social situation of ethnic minorities, social stratification, social mobility and poverty in Borsod Abaúj Zemplén county as well as on social and regional development, political actions and movements, political ideologies, etc. Areas of emphasis include sociology of the family, sociology of culture and religion, economic sociology and organizations, migration and development, social inequality, social demography, social values, different life-styles, social innovations, political theories and methods, ideologies, forms of societies, etc.
The Institute offers BA and MA courses as follows (for full-time and part-time students):
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BA in Political Science
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BA in Sociology
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BA in Social Work
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MA in Political Science
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MA in Sociology
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MA in Central European Studies
In addition, we have postgraduate courses as follows::
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Knowledge of Roma society
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Social Management
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Minority and equality consultancy
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Consultancy in intercultural education