Judit Takács

Judit Takács (born 1968) is a Hungarian sociologist, researcher and university professor. She is a Research Chair of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and works at the Institute of Sociology of the Centre for Social Sciences.

Her main research interests are family roles, work-life balance, social history of sexual minorities, transphobia, homophobia, discrimination, equality, HIV/AIDS prevention.^[1]

Education

She was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her parents were both intellectuals; her mother was a linguist, her father was an ethnographer. She studied history and Hungarian language and literature (MA degree 1992) and cultural anthropology (MA degree 1995) at Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest. She also got an MA in Social Sciences (1994) from University of Amsterdam.

Takács has a PhD degree in sociology from Corvinus University, she got her habilitation in 2011 from Eotvos Lorand University.^[2]

Research projects

In Hungarian

• A homoszexualitás 20. századi társadalomtörténete az 1990 előtti Magyarországon (OTKA – 105414)
• Az apaszerepek változásai (2005–2008); Támogató: MTA (Bolyai János Kutatási Ösztöndíj)
• Transzszexuálisok a szociális és egészségügyi ellátórendszerben 2003–2004); Támogató: Egészségügyi Minisztérium
• Család és politika (Neményi Mária vezetésével) (2002–2004); Támogató: OTKA

In English

• HIV Prevention within High-Risk Social Networks – International Social Network Study I- II. (CAIR, Medical College of Wisconsin vezetésével) (2003–2007; 2007–2012)
• Citizens in Diversity: A Four-Nation Study on Homophobia and Fundamental Rights (2010–2011)
• RECWOWE: Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe (2006–2011)
• Social Exclusion of LGBT Youth in Europe (2006) ILGA-Europe
• How to put equality into practice? Anti-discrimination and equal treatment policies and LGBT people (2004–2005)
• IPROSEC: Improving Policy Responses and Outcomes to Socio-Economic Challenges – Changing Family Structures, Policy and Practice (Neményi Máriavezetésével (2000–2003)

Publications

In Hungarian

• P. Tóth Tamás – Takács Judit – Mocsonaki László (2017) A stigmatizáció hatásai HIV-vel élő meleg férfiakra Magyarországon. Esély Társadalom- és szociálpolitikai folyóirat, 29(1): 45-71
• Neményi Mária – Takács Judit (2015) Örökbefogadás és diszkrimináció Magyarországon. "Esély 27(2): 32-61." (PDF). 
• Takács J - Mocsonaki László - P. Tóth Tamás (2008) "Esély 2008/3" (PDF). 
• Takács J (2004) Homoszexualitás és társadalom. "Új Mandátum Kiadó: Budapest" (PDF). 

In English

• Takács J (2017) Listing Homosexuals since the 1920s and under State Socialism in Hungary. 157-170. In Catherine Baker (ed.) "Gender in 20th-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR". 
• Szalma Ivett; Takács J (2017) How to measure fathering practices in a European comparison? 228-249. In Michael J. Breen (ed.) "Values and Identities in Europe: Evidence from the European Social Survey". 
• Takács J; Szalma Ivett; Bartus Tamás (2016) Social Attitudes toward Adoption by Same-Sex Couples in Europe. "Archives of Sexual Behavior 45(7)". 
• Szalma Ivett – Takács J (2015) Who Remains Childless? Unrealized Fertility Plans in Hungary. "Sociologicky časopis/Czech Sociological Review, 51(6)" (PDF). 
• Takács J és tsi (2015) Effects of a social network HIV/STD prevention intervention for MSM in Russia and Hungary: a randomized controlled trial. AIDS 29(5):583-93
• Takács J (2015) Disciplining gender and (homo)sexuality in state socialist Hungary in the 1970s. In: "European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 22(1)". 
• Takács J és tsi (2013) Effects of Stigmatization on Gay Men Living with HIV/AIDS in a Central-Eastern European Context: A Qualitative Analysis from Hungary. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 10(1)
• Takács J – Szalma Ivett (2011) Homophobia and same-sex partnership legislation in Europe. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 30(5)
• Hobson B – Fahlén S – Takács J (2011) Agency and Capabilities to Achieve a Work-Life Balance: A Comparison of Sweden and Hungary. Social Politics 18(2)

More publications

• "Publications of Judit Takács PhD". policy.hu. Retrieved 2017-07-29. 
• "Judit Takacs | Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Academia.edu". mta.academia.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-29. 

References