Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 335-0-1

Title

Annotations of Intellectual Debates and Datasheets of Researchers

Date(s)

1958 - 1989

Description Level

Series

Extent and medium (processed)

9 Archival boxes, 1.12 linear meters

Context

Archival history

Until 2015 the documents were at the place of collection at the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Social Sciences in the care of the leader of the research project. All of the annotations and datasheets have been transferred to the Archives in good quality.

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)

In 1982 at the request of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, Tibor Huszár (Director at the Institute of Sociology at the Eötvös Loránd University) commissioned the research group including sociologists, Mária Heller, Ágnes Rényi and Dénes Némedi, to prepare a study on the situation of Hungarian publicity. The research had become a project lasting almost two decades led by Dénes Némedi and Mária Heller. In the course of the project a remarkable set of documents have been created which have been transferred to the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives.

Annotations of the series have been created by processing articles that contribute to public debates on various topics like the public, culture, social life and policies. The annotations are the extracts of the articles published. These have been gathered in the course of research seminars by the contribution of university students. The materials have been processed and arranged according to the title of the publishing journal and the debate. The short extracts cover not only the years after 1982 (which was the start of the project), the project had been expanded back to the end of the 1950's.

The series also contains the datasheets of the contributors of the debates. A datasheet comprises biographical information, list of publications, and debate titles.

As a result of the research, several studies have been published in Hungarian and English language. These can be accessed at the Library of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Eötvös Loránd University.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information

During the course of processing no materials have been removed from the series.

Accruals

Not Expected

System of arrangement

The series is arranged chronologically. In the catalog the annotations are separated by titles, the datasheets have been processed on the level of items.

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access

The collection is open for research. General restrictions apply.

Conditions governing reproduction

Az anyag oktatási és kutatási célból történő digitális másolása engedélyezett.

Description Control

Archivist's note

Processed by Örs Lehel Tari, November 30, 2015.