Curriculum Vitae

Personal Informations

Name: Domonkos Sik (1982)

Citizenship: Hungarian

Email Address: sikdom@gmail.com

Education

Graduation:

  • Ba and Ma of Sociology (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 2001 – 2006)
  • Ba and Ma of Philosophy with honours (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 2003 – 2008)

Postgraduate Studies:

  • PhD of sociology (Eötvös Lorand University, Doctoral School of Sociology 2006-2010, Title of the dissertation: The coordination of action coordination – a formal, critical-phenomenological theory of socialization and political socialization)

College Membership:

  • Erasmus College, Budapest 2006 – 2009
  • Collegium Budapest (junior fellow) 2011-2012

Domains of Interest

contemporary social theory, political socialization, phenomenology

Awards, Scholarships

    • 2011/2012 NewDem Fellowship Programme
    • 2010/2011 Erasmus professor Scholarship, University of Paris XIII
  • 2005/2006. Republican Scholarship
  • 2005/2006. Second Semester, Erasmus Scholarship, University of Paris VIII – Université Vincennes - Saint-Denis

Research Experiences

    • 2011-2014 Memory, Youth, Political Legacy And Civic Engagement (http://www.fp7-myplace.eu/concept.php), European Commission, 7th Framework programme, Coordinated by Hilary Pilkington (University of Warwic)
    • 2010-2012 Campus-life in Debrecen, Hungarian Research Fund (OTKA), Coordinated by Ildikó Szabó
    • 2009-2011 Family political socialization in Hungary, Hungarian Research Fund (OTKA), Coordinated by Mihály Csákó
    • 2008-2011 Community relations and the renewal of democracy in Hungarian society, Hungarian Research Fund (OTKA), Coordinated by Ágnes Utasi

Languages

  • English, advanced
  • French, advanced

Publications in Hungarian

Books

1. Demokratikus kultúra és modernizáció: Állampolgári szocializáció 20 évvel a rendszerváltás után. (Democratic culture and modernization: Civic socialization 20 years after the transition). Budapest: L’Harmattan 2014

2. A modernizáció ingája - Egy genetikus kritikai elmélet vázlata (The Pendulum of Modernity - Outline of a genetic critical theory). Budapest: ELTE-Eötvös Kiadó 2012.

Papers

    1. Vizsgálati szempontok a családi politikai szocializáció kutatásához (Aspects of family political socialization (with: Csákó Mihály, Murányi István, Szabó Ildikó), In: Társadalomkutatás (megjelenés alatt)
    2. A cselekvéskoordináció szerkezetváltása? – Kísérlet a rendszerváltás kritikai értelmezésére (The Transformation of Action coordination? – A Critical Interpretation of the Hungarian Transition,), In: Szociológiai Szemle 2010/1.
  1. A középiskolások republikánus és liberális értékeit meghatározó tényezőkről (The socialization background of high school pupils’ civic culture) – In: Új Ifjúsági Szemle 2010/1.
  2. A kommunikatív ész kritikája – kommunikatív cselekvés és személyes identitás (Critique of communicative reason – communicative action and personal identity), In: Szociológiai Szemle 2009/3.
  3. Az állampolgári cselekvés kapcsolathálózati előfeltételei (Network prerequisites of civic action), In: Feleky G. (ed.): Közösségi relációk: elméletek, narratívák, hipotézisek, Belvedere, Szeged 2009.
  4. Habermas életvilág fogalmán innen és túl (On Habermas’ notion of lifeworld), In: Némedi D.-Szabari V. (ed.): Kötő-jelek 2008, TáTK-ELTE Budapest 2009.
  5. A cselekvéskoordináció koordinációjának fenomenológiája (The Phenomenology of the Coordination of Action Coordination), In: Filozófiai Szemle 2009/3-4.
  6. A szakkollégiumok finanszírozási stratégiái és civil jellege közötti összefüggések (Financing strategies in NGO and non-NGO special colleges), In: Civil Szemle 2008/3. (with Mihály Fazekas)
  7. Tudatosítás és terápia (Rationalization and Therapy), In: Elpis 2008/1.
  8. Szocializáció és állampolgári szocializáció a habermasi társadalomelmélet tükrében (Socialization and Political Socialization According to the Theory of Communicative Action), In: Némedi D.-Szabari V. (ed.): Kötő-jelek 2007, Budapest 2008.
  9. A kommunikatív cselekvés koordinációja (The Coordination of Communicative Action), In: Szociológiai Szemle 2008/1.
  10. Nyilvánosság a magyarországi szakkollégiumokban (Public Sphere in the Hungarian Special Colleges), In: A tarkaság dícsérete 2, Budapest 2007.
  11. A pedagógiai cselekvés fogalmának értelmezése A kommunikatív cselekvés elméletének keretei között (Analysis of the Notion of “Pedagogical Action” According to the Theory of Communicative Action), In: Némedi D.-Szabari V. (ed.): Kötő-jelek 2006, Budapest 2007.
  12. Néhány gondolat az internetes fórumokról a habermasi demokráciaelmélet szemszögéből (Reflections on the Internet Forums from a Habermasian Perspective), Világosság 2006/2.

Review

1. A szociológia bűnbeesése (Felkai Gábor: A német szociológia története a századfordulótól 1933-ig), In: Holmi 2008/5.

2. On Ildikó Szabó's Nemzet és szocializáció – A politika szerepe az identitások formálásában Magyarországon 1867–2006. (Nation and socialization - The role of politics in the process of identity formation in Hungary 1867-2006.), In: BUKSZ 2010/2.

Publications in English

  1. The Imitated Public Sphere: The Case of Hungary's Far. In: Patricia Anne Simpson-Helga Druxes (Eds.): Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States Hardcover (forthcoming in 2015)
  2. Memory transmission and political socialization in post-socialist Hungary SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW 63:(S2) (special issue edited by Hilary Pilkington and Gery Pollock) pp. 53-71. (fotrhcoming in 2015)
  3. Incubating radicalism in Hungary – the case of Sopron and Ózd. Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics. 1: (1) pp. 100-121.
  4. Critical Theory and Political Socialization BELVEDERE MERIDIONALE 26:(4) pp. 56-63. (2014)
  5. Civic socialization in post-transition condition. In: Politics, Culture and Socialization, 2. Vol., No. 3/2011, pp. 257-271
  6. The Transformation of Action coordination? – A Critical Interpretation of the Hungarian Transition, In: Review of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Science 2010/2.
  7. Critique of communicative reason – communicative action and personal identity, In: Review of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Science 2009/2.

Hungarian Conferences

  1. Annual Conference of Hungarian Sociological Association, Debrecen 2009. Title: The structural transformation of action coordination – a critical analysis of the Hungarian transition (in Hungarian)
  2. Annual Conference of Hungarian Sociological Association, Debrecen 2009. Title: Civic culture of high school pupils: the socialization background of the republican, liberal and anti-democratic values(in Hungarian)
  3. Annual Conference of Hungarian Sociological Association, Veszprém 2008., Title: Socialization and Political Socialization According to the Theory of Communicative Action (in Hungarian)
  4. Durkheim-Simmel Memorial Conference, Algyő 2008., Title: Variations on the pre-linguistic roots of communicative action: Levinas and Durkheim (in Hungarian)
  5. Conference on New Youth, Budapest 2008., Title: Socialization and Political Socialization According to the Theory of Communicative Action (in Hungarian)
  6. Annual Conference of the International Political Science Association – Research Commitee 21 (Political Socialization and Education) – Antwerp 2007, Title: “With or without School” – A critical analysis of the school’s role in the processes of political socialization in Hungary (in English)
  7. IV. HUNNET Conference – Budapest 2007, Title: Implications of the Theory of Communicative Action for the Social Network Research (in Hungarian)
    1. XXVII National Scientific Conference for Students of Social Sciences, Budapest 2005., Title: Reproduction and Crises (in Hungarian)

International conferences

    1. 11th ESA Conference: Crisis, Critique and Change, Torino 2013, title: Reconfiguring the past and the present in time of crisis – the case of post-socialist Hungary
    2. 11th ESA Conference: Crisis, Critique and Change, Torino 2013, title: Towards a critical theory of Central East European societies
  1. Annual Conference of the International Political Science Association – Research Commitee 21 (Political Socialization and Education) - Citizenship education, Democracy, culture socialization and media, Aalborg 2010, title: The phenomenology of civic involvement
  2. Annual Conference of the International Political Science Association – Research Commitee 21 (Political Socialization and Education) – Antwerp 2007, Title: “With or without School” – A critical analysis of the school’s role in the processes of political socialization in Hungary (in English)

Positions and teaching experience

    • Eötvös Loránd University – Department of History of Social Theory – Assistant professor2014-
    • Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church - Department of Social Psychology, Assistant professor 2013-2014
    • Eötvös Loránd University – Department of History of Social Theory – Researcher 2012-2014
  • University of Debrecen – Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Assistant professor 2009-2012
  • Eötvös Loránd University – Department of Sociology, Budapest – External teacher 2008.

Guest teacher

• University of Paris XIII (one week) – La compréhensionmutuelle: les questions théoriques et pratiques