Dr. Zsombor Rajkai is recognized as an expert in the role of family both in socialist modernization and in the subsequent systemic transformation, and attempt to give a new interpretation to family (relations) in socialist and post-socialist societies as so-called transitional societies. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology, from the Kyoto University and a Ph.D. in Linguistics, from the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary.) His research team focuses on understanding how marketization (from plan economy to market economy), changing social/family policies (with the state playing less paternalistic roles than before), as well as, the potential of newly emerging grassroots communities/civil society affect the intimate sphere/family in these transitional societies.