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Csákó obtained his university degree at the Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University, Budapest, to which he soon added a postgraduate training in French, where he also learned about various currents in social sciences, including psychology and political trends in Europe. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös University in 1971.
He became an assistant professor already in 1964 at the Faculty of Humanities, which he left six years later for the Institute of Social Sciences of the Central Committee. Since he completed a course in informatics, that is, in computer technology related to senior management, he was assigned with the task to catalogue professional journals in computer technology and informatics at the Central Statistical Office.
For a couple of years he was free-lancing as a sociologist, and he became interested in the various applications of computer technology. At this time, via computer technology, he developed an interest in issues of education.
He started teaching around the regime change. For almost ten years he was a visiting professor in Pittsburgh, USA, where he gave courses on processes, societies and economics in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, he was the director of the Institute of Sociology of Eötvös University. He was present at the establishment of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Eötvös University, where he has been a professor ever since. For the past few years, he has worked as an associate professor at Wesley János Pastoral Training College.
For the past 20 years he has been mainly concerned with education, the features of different education systems, and the political socialization of societies. He has extensively published in English and French as well.
He is member and former chair of several scientific societies. He has perfect oral, written and reading language competence of professional texts in three languages.
(written by András Páldi university student)
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