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Zoltán Fábián
Zoltán Fábián is
the director of dataarchive and IT department at TÁRKI Social
Research Center, Hungary since 1999. Fábián
graduated at Eötvös Loránd University in 1993.
Since 1991 he has worked for TÁRKI in different positions
on several research and data dissemination projects. He was a
fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and became a
candidate of sociology in 1999. His dissertation was published in
a book titled Tekintélyelvûség és
elõítéletek (Prejudices and
authoritarianism). He is the author and co-author of a number of
articles and book chapters in the field of social psychology,
social structure and information society. In 2003 he was the
coordinator of a large-scale information society monitoring study
in Hungary. In this project a consortium of different research
agencies and think tanks provided consultancy to the Ministry of
Information Society and Telecommunication to develop a new
Strategy for the Hungarian Information Society. The consortium
created and monitored the benchmarking indicators of the new
Strategy, and produced e-Europe indicators. Zoltán
Fábián coordinated the social and market research
on the introduction of digital terrestrial television platform
(DVB-T) in Hungary in 2002. This research was sponsored by
Antenna Hungária broadcasting company.
Fábián has been one of the coordinators of World
Internet Project (WIP), Hungary since 2001. He contributed to a
longitudinal survey on income and labor market dynamics, the
Hungarian Household Panel (HHP). He has also been a consultant to
the World Bank as a HHP database expert in 1998. Between 2000 and
2004 he was the Hungarian coordinator of the CHER project
which was financially supported by the European Union in the
Fifth Framework Program. This project was aimed at harmonizing
and integrating numerous national household panel studies and the
European Community Household Panel into a common comparative
database. Since 2004 he has been the president of the Political
Behavior Section of the Hungarian Sociological Association, and a
member of the Sociology Subcommittee of the Hungarian
Accreditation Committee. He was awarded by the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences (1994) and by the Hungarian Sociological Association
(1998).Selected list of English publications:
--. 2009. Three roads to Comparative Research: Analytical, Visual and Morphological. Wien: Edition Echoraum (Vol. 8. of the Series: Complexity, Design, Society. (Co-edited by Tos Niko, K. H. Müller, Z. J. Krejci, M. Zielinski)
--. 2009. "Opportunity and Digital Literacy: Media Consumption and Digital Tool Usage Status Groups in Hungary." In: Gustavo Cardoso, Angus Cheong and Jeffrey Cole. World Wide Internet: Changeing Societies, Economies and Cultures. Macau: University of Macau. pp. 241-266. (co-authors: Anikó Bernát, Anna Galácz and Bence Ságvári.)
--. 2004. "Digital Inequality and Types of Info-communication Tool Use." In: Tamás Kolosi, István György Tóth and György Vukovich. (eds.) Social Report 2004. Budapest: TÁRKI. pp. 299-320. (With co-authors: Róbert Angelusz and Róbert Tardos)
--. 2004. "Is Prejudice Growing in Hungary?" In: Tamás Kolosi, István György Tóth and György Vukovich. (eds.) Social Report 2004. Budapest: TÁRKI. pp. 363-385. (With co-authors: Zsolt Enyedi and Endre Sik)
--. 2001. "Authoritarianism and Prejudice in Present-Day Hungary." "Determinants of Denial and Acceptance of Refugees in Hungary." In: Phalet, Karen and Antal Örkény. (eds.) Ethnic Minorities and Inter-Ethnic Relations in Context: A Dutch-Hungarian Comparison. Aldershot, Burlington USA, Singapore, Sydney: Ashgate. pp. 201-215. (With co-authors: Zsolt Enyedi and Ferenc Eros)
-- 1999. "Voter Allegiances and Voter Loyalty." in: Zsolt Spéder (ed.). Hungary in Flux. Hamburg: Krämer Verlag. pp. 235-251
--. 1999. "The middle strata in transformation." in: Andorka, R., T. Kolosi R. Rose and G. Vukovich." A Society Transformed Hungary in Time-Space Perspective. Budapest: Central European University Press. pp. 97-112.
