Cultural and social history
Veronika Bocsi, PhD, habil
- The social and cultural history of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
Burke, Peter: The renaissance. London, MacMillen Press, 1997.
Bloch, Mark: Feudal Society. London, Routledge & Kegan, 1975
Duby, George: The age of the catedrals. Art and society 980-1420. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1981.
- The social and cultural history of the modern age
Braudel, Ferdinand: Civilisation and capitalism. 15th – 18th century. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1992.
Burke, Peter: Pupular culture in the early modern Europe. Cambridge, Ashgate, 2009.
Dentith, Simon: Society and cultural forms in nineteenth century England. New York, N.Y, St. Martin's Press, 1998
Veblen, Thorstein: The theory of the leisure class. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1967.
- Society and cultural history between the two world wars
Arendt, Hannah: The origins of totalitarianism. Orlando, Harcourt, 1968.
Diner, Steven, J.: A very different age. NY: Hill and Wang, 2011.
Fromm, Erich: Escape from freedom. NY: Farrar and Rinehart, 1941.
- The social history of Western Europe and the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. Consumer society and its critique
Lasch, Cristopher: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. London – NY, W.W. Norton, 1979.
Marcuse, Herbert: One dimensional man. London, Sphere Books, 1968.
Riesman, David: The lonely crowd. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1961
- The social history of Eastern Europe in the second half of the XX. century. The relationship between politics and culture.
Applebaum, Anne: Iron curtain : the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 . New York: Doubleday, 2012.
Szelényi, Iván – Konrád, György: The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power. NY: Harcourt, 1979.
Szelényi Iván: The rise of managerialism : the "new class" after the fall of communism. Budapest, Collegium Budapest, 1995.
Orwell, George: The prevention of literature. In.: The collected essays, journalism and letters of George Orwell. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968.
Pittaway, Mark: The workers' state : industrial labor and the making of socialist Hungary. Pittsburgh, Pa., Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
6. Current trends in the structure of society
Eurofound (2017), Social mobility in the EU, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg. Eatock, David et al.: Demographic outlook for the European Union 2019. European Union, Brussels, 2019.
Putnam, Robert, D.: Bowling alone. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1999.
- Current trends in culture
Appadurai, Arjan: Modernity at large: cultural dimensions of globalisations. Minneapolis –London, University of Minnesota Press, 1996
Castells, Manuel: The information age : economy, society and culture. Malden ; Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, 1998
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Tomlinson, J. 1999: Globalization and Culture. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.