Research Interests
Bence Ságvári is a research professor at the Centre for Social Sciences and head of the CSS-Recens research group. He received his Ph.D at ELTE University in 2011. He has been the Hungarian National Coordinator for the European Social Survey (ESS) since 2011. in 2014/15 and from 2023-2025 he was a visiting professor at Indiana College, Bloomington (USA).
From 2021 he is an associate professor at Corvinus University of Budapest where he teaches social network analysis, research methodology and sociological theories. He was a Hungarian partner in several cross-national comparative survey projects, e.g. EU Kids Online (EUKO) and World Internet Project (WIP). He was the principal investigator of the CODE Europe project and SUSTAIN-2 (H2020). His work includes research on digital trace data, survey methodology, social network analysis, social values and attitudes. His publication list includes over 50 articles and book chapters in journals such as Nature Communications, Plos ONE, Sensors, JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND POLITICS, COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS, EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIE
More information: www.sagvari.com
Selected Publications
Benczes, R., Benczes, I., Ságvári, B., & Szabó, L. P. (2024). When life is no longer a journey: The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the metaphorical conceptualization of life among Hungarian adults – A representative survey. Cognitive Linguistics 2024; 35(1): 143–165. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2023-0050
Máté, Á., Rakovics, Z., Rudas, S., Wallis, L., Ságvári, B., Huszár, Á., & Koltai, J. (2023). Willingness of participation in an application-based digital data collection among different social groups and smartphone user clusters. Sensors 2023, 23(9), 4571; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23094571
Ságvári B, Gulyás A, Koltai J. Attitudes Towards Participation in a Passive Data Collection Experiment. Sensors. 2021; 21(18):6085. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21186085
BENCZES, R., SÁGVÁRI, B. (2022) Migrants are not welcome. Metaphorical framing of fled people in Hungarian online media, 2015–2018. Journal of Language and Politics 21:3 pp. 413-434. (online first, 16 July 2021) https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.20042.ben
Ságvári, B., & Messing, V. (2022). Social perceptions and their changes about life course and timing of key life events in Europe. Človek a spoločnosť. Internetový časopis pre pôvodné teoretické a výskumné štúdie z oblasti spoločenských vied, 4(24), 25-38. https://doi.org/10.31577/cas.2021.04.593
MESSING, V., Ságvári, b. (2021) Are Anti-Immigrant Attitudes the Holy Grail of Populists? A Comparative Analysis of Attitudes Towards Immigrants, Values, and Political Populism in Europe. Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics, 7(2): Grassroots responses to mass migration in Europe, pp. 100-127., https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v7i2.750
Egedy T., & b. Ságvári (2021) Urban Geographical Patterns of the Relationship Between Mobile Communication, Social Networks and Economic Development – The Case of Hungary. Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 70(2), 129-148. https://doi.org/10.15201/hungeobull.70.2.3
Ságvári, B; Messing, V. (2021) Social Perceptions and their Changes about Life Course and Timing of Key Life Events in Europe. CLOVEK A SPOLOCNOST 24 : 4 pp. 25-38. , 14 p. https://doi.org/10.31577%2fcas.2021.04.593
Tóth G., J. Wachs, R. Di Clemente, Á. Jakobi, B. Ságvári, J. Kertész & B. Lengyel (2021) Inequality is rising where social network segregation interacts with urban topology. Nature Communications 12, 1143 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21465-0
MESSING, V., SÁGVÁRI, B., SIMON, D. (2019) Methodological Challenges in Cross-comparative Surveys. The Case of Understanding Attitudes towards Democracy in Hungary. Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics, 5(1): Central-East European societies on the map of Europe, pp. 8-26., https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v5i1.530
BENCZES, R., SÁGVÁRI,B. (2018) Life is a battlefield: Conceptualizations of life among Hungarian adults. Society & Economy 40(4), pp. 571–586, https://doi.org/10.1556/204.2018.40.4.6
BENCZES, R., SÁGVÁRI, B. (2018). Where metaphors really come from: Social factors as contextual influence in Hungarian teenagers’ metaphorical conceptualizations of life. Cognitive Linguistics, 29(1), pp. 121-154. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2016-0139
SÁGVÁRI, B. (2017) The Computational Turn in Social Sciences. Challenges of the New Empiricism in the Age of Big Data. INTERSECTIONS: East European Journal of Society and Politics 3(1) pp. 5-14. https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v3i1.348
LENGYEL, B., VARGA, A., SÁGVÁRI, B., JAKOBI, Á., KERTÉSZ, J.(2015) Geographies of an online social network: weak distance decay effect and strong spatial modularity. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0137248 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137248
Research Projects
“The role of culture and values in economic competitiveness” (2012-2016) OTKA PD- 105354 (principal investigator)
The life cycle of an online social network: Big Data analysis (2015-2017) OTKA K-112713 (principal investigator)
European Social Survey (ESS) (national coordinator)
Youth Policy Review Hungary (2014-2016) lead researcher
