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Dorottya Kisfalusi

Adjunct Associate Professor

I am interested in educational inequalities, school segregation, discrimination, positive and negative peer relationships among children and adolescents, school bullying and victimization, interethnic relations, and ethnic classification processes.

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I am a sociologist interested in educational inequalities, school segregation, discrimination, positive and negative peer relationships among children and adolescents, school bullying and victimization, interethnic relations, and ethnic classification processes.

I received my PhD in sociology at the Corvinus University of Budapest, in 2016. Besides IAS, I am also affiliated with the Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest.

At IAS, I participate in two following research projects:

  • Peer influence or discrimination? Understanding the mechanisms behind ethnic differences in school achievement (funded by the Swedish Research Council, PI: Károly Takács)
  • Tackling the spread of cigarettes and alternative nicotine products in social networks (funded by FORTE, PI: Márta Radó)

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Recent publications

Hermann, Z., Horváth H., Kisfalusi D. (2024): Are separate classrooms inherently unequal? The effect of within-school sorting on the socioeconomic test score gap in Hungary. Economics of Education Review, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102582

Hermann Z., Kisfalusi D. (2023): School segregation, student achievement, and educational attainment in Hungary. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152231198434

Kisfalusi, D. (2023): Roma Students’ Academic Self-Assessment and Educational Aspirations in Hungarian Primary Schools. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 44(5): 879-895. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2023.2206003

Kisfalusi, D. (2023): Are equally competent Roma minority students perceived as less smart than their non-Roma classmates? Ethnic differences in teachers’ ability attributions. Journal for Multicultural Education, 17(4): 443-457. https://doi.org/10.1108/JME-03-2023-0015

Radó, Márta K., Dorottya Kisfalusi, Anthony A. Laverty, Frank J. van Lenthe, Jasper V. Been, Károly Takács (2023): Socioeconomic inequalities in smoking and drinking in adolescence: assessment of social network dynamics. Addiction, https://doi.org/10.1111/add.16384

Kisfalusi, D., M. Hooijsma, G. Huitsing, R. Veenstra (2022): How Dislike and Bullying Co-Develop: A Longitudinal Study of Negative Relationships among Children. Social Development, 31(3): 797-810. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12582

Estevez, J.L., D. Kisfalusi, K. Takács (2022): More than One’s Negative Ties: The Role of Friends’ Antipathies in High School Gossip. Social Networks, 70: 77-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2021.11.009

Kisfalusi, D., Janky, B., and Takács, K. (2021): Grading in Hungarian Primary Schools: Mechanisms of Ethnic Discrimination against Roma Students. European Sociological Review, 37(6): 899-917. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcab023

Hooijsma, M., D. Kisfalusi, G. Huitsing, J.K. Dijkstra, A. Flache, R. Veenstra (2021): Crossing ethnic boundaries? A social network investigation of defending relationships in schools. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 24(8): 1391-1408. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211009318

Romano, Angelo, Francesca Giardini, Simon Columbus, Erik W. de Kwaadsteniet, Dorottya Kisfalusi, Zegni Triki, Chris Snijders, Kristin Hagel (2021): Reputation and socio-ecology in humans. Philosophical Transactions B, Volume 376 Issue 1838, https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0295

Kristóf, L., D. Kisfalusi, E. Vit (2021): Political homophily in cultural reputational networks. Poetics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101538

Kisfalusi, D., J. Pál, and Zs. Boda (2020): Bullying and victimization among majority and minority students: The role of peers’ ethnic perceptions. Social Networks 60(1): 48-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2018.08.006

Hooijsma, M., G. Huitsing, D. Kisfalusi, J.K. Dijkstra, A. Flache, and R. Veenstra (2020): Multidimensional similarity in multiplex networks: Friendships between same- and cross-gender bullies and same- and cross-gender victims. Network Science 8 (1): 79–96. doi:10.1017/nws.2020.1

Kisfalusi, D., B. Janky and K. Takács (2019): Double Standards or Social Identity? The Role of Gender and Ethnicity in Ability Perceptions in the Classroom. The Journal of Early Adolescence 39 (5): 745–780. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431618791278

A full list of publications can be found here:

https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=10035690


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