Csaba Varga
- hungarian professor, sociologist and researcher of social theory and initiator of the Unified Theories process.
Csaba Varga (1946) is a sociologist, h. associate professor. He is the president of the Institute for Strategic Research in Budapest, Hungary. He graduated from the Department of Sociology at Eötvös Loránd Science University in the first half of the 1980s and studied full time at the Institute for Executive Training for two years.
Professional experiences
Young Artists’ Club (director, 1978-1980); Institute for Cultural Education (1984-1988); Association of Hungarian Writers (secretary, 1988); Institute for Strategic Research (president, 1991-).
He teaches regularly at the University of Pannon, Budapest Economic College, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, and Századvég Political School. Joint president of e-Government Research Group and leader of Future Research and Development Center at University of Pannon. For this University he wrote six university curriculums in the following subjects: globalisation/localisation, information society and the theory and practice of e-adiminstration.
He is a member of many knowledge groups like the Swedish Kreaprenör, the Noetic Advanced Studies Institute at the US, the German-Hungarian Philosophical Society and the Austrian European Network for the Study of Globalisation, etc.
Research areas
Village and town research (1972-), area structure research (1986-) future research, future strategy (1976-), theory of conservatism (1992-1995), globalisation and localisation (1993-), theory of information society (1993-), knowledge society (1995-), metatheory and metaphilosophy, theory of the new science (2002-). At Institute for Strategic Research he presently leads the metatheory-metaphilosophy research group.
Major publications
Azon túl ott a tág világ (The Wide World Beyond That, with Pál Bánlaky, Magvető, Budapest, 1979); Reformvár (Reform Castle, with István Kamarás, Magvető, Budapest, 1984); Duna-táji tudósítás (Report Off the Danube, selected essays, Gondolat, Budapest, 1988); Magyarország eresz alatt (Hungary Under the Eaves, selected sociographies, Magvető, Budapest, 1989); Hagyomány és stratégia (Tradition and Strategy, Kapu Books, Budapest, 1998); Szabadság-kísérletek (Attempts at Freedom, V-Kiadó, Budapest, 1999); Vidékfejlesztés az információs korban, avagy a lokalitás esélyei (Country Development in the Age of Information – The Chances of the Local World, Agroinform, Budapest, 2000); A legutolsó utolsó esély (The Very Last Chance, with Endre Kiss, Stratégiakutató Intézet, Nagykovácsi, 2001); Új elmélethorizontok előtt (Facing to New Theory-horizons, Tertia, Budapest, 2004); Új állam és demokrácia elmélet (New Theory of State and Democracy, with Emese Ugrin, Századvég Kiadó, Budapest, 2007); A metafilozófia gyönyörűsége (The Beauty of Metaphilosophy, Kairosz Kiadó, Budapest, 2008)
Publications with others
A mai világ és a jövő forgatókönyvei (The world today and future trends, HÉA Stratégiakutató Intézet, MTA Szociológiai Intézet, Magyar Kapu Alapítvány, 1997.); Magyar jövőképek (Hungarian Foresights, HÉA Stratégiakutató Intézet, MTA Szociológiai Intézet, Budapest Klub Alapítvány, etc.); Intelligens régiók Magyarországon 1. (Intelligent Regions in Hungary, Agroinform Kiadóház—Stratégiakutató Intézet, Budapest, 2001); Jövő mint egész (Future as a Whole, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2001); A tudás társadalma I-II. (The Society of Knowledge, Stratégiakutató Intézet, Ipargazdaság Kutató Intézet, Nemzeti Ifjúságkutató Intézet, 2002); Metatheory, metaphilosophy (Stratégiakutató Intézet, 2005)
Other activities
INCO, theoretical and pragmatic journal about the information age (editor-in-chief);e-Világ, review of information age (president of editorial board, own website, which proves Varga’s theoretical versatility. Editor of National Strategy Until 2020 Books, Information Age Books (from the second half of 1990’s) and Metatheoretical Books series (from 2005-2006)
Besides his social research work Varga has taken part in social development experiments and projects as well as organising reading camps (1972-1985), village experiments (1969-1999) and public academies (1982-1987); civilian university (1996-); information society developments, intelligent region projects, designing knowledge-centric towns (1998-), e-government developments (2003-), Aba intelligent town development (2002-); designing the garden of Eden and future city in Zselic (2002-).
Csaba Varga
Congress chairman
h. academic reader
President
Institute for Strategic Research
H-1026 Budapest, Garas u. 24/A.
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