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György Lengyel first obtained a degree in economics, which later he complemented with one in sociology and then another one in history. He became a candidate at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1991; habilitated in 1997; and was awarded D.Sc degree in 2008.
He first worked at the Budapest City Archives. He then moved to the Department of Sociology of the Karl Marx University of Economics, Budapest, where he has been teaching since as a university professor.
Lengyel’s professional and research oeuvre is extremely rich, especially in the field of economics: he has dealt with topics like entrepreneurship and its implications, the economic elite, management in sociology, public opinion polls at home and abroad.
He was member or chair of dozens of committees and periodicals. Ever since 1993 he has been program manager of the Doctoral School of Sociology at Corvinus University of Budapest; he was President of the Hungarian Sociological Association in 2006; member of the Board of Trustees at the Institute for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; and has been member of its Committee of Sociology for over two decades.
(Written by András Páldi András university student)
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