József Böröcz

József Böröcz (born 1956, Budapest, Hungary) is a historical sociologist, emeritus Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University since July 1, 2024. He earned his PhD in sociology at Johns Hopkins University in 1992. He has a Dr. Sc. degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Life

József Böröcz grew up in Budapest, Hungary. He attended Petőfi Gimnázium. He studied literature, linguistics, culture theory, as well as Polish at Kossuth Lajos University of Sciences in Debrecen between 1976 and 1982. He renounced the award in protest due to the government honoring a racist journalist. Immanuel Wallerstein Chair in Global Ethics for 2005–2006, University of Ghent, Belgium Hungarian Heritage Award 1998 Honorable Mention, "The European Union and Global Social Change", book award competition of the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association "For József Böröcz Being 60." Online Festschrift for 60th Birthday Radnóti Miklós Collective Anti-Racism Award of the Hungarian Federation of Anti-Fascists and Resistance Fighters 2017 Senior Fulbright Researcher at the Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, September 2019 - June 2020

Books

David A. Smith and József Böröcz (eds.) 1995. A New World Order? Global Transformation in the Late 20th Century. Greenwood Press (A Praeger Imprint). Hard cover and paperback. József Böröcz. 1996. Leisure Migration: A Sociological Study on Tourism. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press (An Elsevier Science Imprint). Hard cover. József Böröcz and Melinda Kovács (eds.). 2001. Empire’s New Clothes: Unveiling EU-Enlargement. E-Book, a Central Europe Review imprint. , 3 December. . Hungarian version: Böröcz József és Kovács Melinda (szerk.). 2001. EU-birodalom. Thematic bloc in Replika. 45-46 (November): 23–151. József Böröcz. 2009, 2010. The European Union and Global Social Change: A Critical Geopolitical-Economic Analysis. Oxford, UK: Routledge. Hardback and e-book: 2009 and 2010; paperback: 2010. Ángel Ferrero, József Böröcz, Corina Tulbure y Roger Suso. 2014. El último europeo: Imperialismo, xenofóbia y la derecha radical en la Unión Europea. (In Spanish.) Madrid: La oveja roja. Böröcz József. 2017. Hasított fa. A világrendszer-elmélettől a globális struktúraváltásokig (In Hungarian). Budapest: l’Harmattan. Böröcz József. 2018. Az EU és a világ. Kritikai elemzés. (In Hungarian). Budapest: Pesti Kalligram. Böröcz József és Fáber Ágoston (szerk.). 2021. Ott kívül a magyarázat. Társadalomkritikai beszélgetések Böröcz Józseffel. (In Hungarian). Budapest: Eszmélet zsebkönyvtár. Böröcz József. 2026. Hát ez ilyen . Budapest: Gondolat.