About us

The 'Voices of the 20th Century Archive and Research Group' (Research Group) started its activity in the spring of 2009 within the framework of the OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) research project nr. 77566. The mid-term objective of the Research Group is to preserve the audio (and audiovisual) heritage of Hungarian sociology (i.e. mapping and collecting sociological studies, with a special emphasis on those  based on qualitative methods, conducted in the course of the past fifty years). Furthermore, in the long run, the project is committed to digitalize as well as to archive the sources and to provide enhanced access to our collections.

News, Events



'Labor research from planned economy to savage capitalism' is the title of a workshop conference organized this fall by Voices of the 20th Century Archive and Research Group together with Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives. The tentative date of the conference is 4 December 2020, and the prospective venue is the Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence (1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4.).

The Research Documentation Center (RDC), part of which is Voices of the 20th Century Archive, joined the Hungarian Research Data Alliance in spring 2020.

Ferenc Erős social psychologist died at 73.