There have been numerous works born in Hungary about the socialist era since 1990, and yet there are still a few deficiencies in the field of social history. Life changed to an enormous extent in Hungary between the 1960's and 1980's; the society became a quasi-capitalist society by the end of the 80's. However, the picture drawn by the socialist sociology differed from reality fundamentally. The majority of sociological studies provided a realistic picture of Hungary, while some authors included more or less ideological issues in their writings. The socialist ideology appeared much more...