DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
new brunswick / piscataway
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József Böröcz
Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, 1992 Website cv (pdf) |
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| Dr. Böröcz's interests include historical/comparative sociology, global structures, social change, economic discourse, state socialism and its legacy, empire and coloniality. He is the author of Leisure Migration: A Sociological Comparison (Pergamon Press, 1996), co-editor and contributor of a collection of studies entitled Empire's New Clothes: Unveiling EU-Enlargement, (an e-book available online, published by the online journal Central Europe Review, 2001), A New World Order? Global Transformation in the Late 20th Century (Greenwood Press, 1995), and Gender and Nation (a Special Block in the journal East European Politics and Societies). His most recent journal publications include "Goodness Is Elsewhere: The Rule of European Difference", Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2006, "Redistributing Global Inequality, Economic and Political Weekly, 2005, and (co-authored with Mahua Sarkar) "What Is the EU?", International Sociology, 2005. He has two current projects: "Social Change by Fusion" is a book-length essay on how we could imagine a comparative sociology of institutional creativity without a teleological imagery, and "EU-Rope: Enlargement as Control" develops a geopolitical sociology by examining the eastward expansion of the European Union. For more details, consult his website listed above. | ||