He graduated in History and Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities of the ELTE, where he obtained his PhD in 1989. From 1995 to 2000, he was an adjunct lecturer and then associate professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Miskolc. In 1997, he became Associate Professor at ELTE. In 2005, he habilitated at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Pázmány Péter University with his dissertation on Edmund Burke. In the meantime, he has been a visiting lecturer at several universities abroad. Currently, he is also the director of Századvég Publishing House.
