Absztrakt

The study contributes to the now several years long research project studying women’s higher education between the world wars by exploring the social character of the Baár–Madas Reformed Girls’ High School in Budapest, and providing an introduction to a methodology suitable for institutional-level socio-historical analyses. The study analyses the composition, social recruitment and socio-cultural background of the students enrolled between 1920 and 1940 using quantitative methodology on data available in the school registers about the students’ religion, place of birth, residence, and the occupation of parents. This data is complemented with qualitative sources of school history and comparative statistical data available about the students of other Protestant girls’ schools and Budapest girls’ schools. The study aims to explore the modes of action which affected the social function and historical role of the school. The occupation of parents is not categorised simply by industry, employer or employment status, but by a variable created to represent the parents’ place in the hierarchy of social prestige, based on their inferred level of education, income, position within the activity structure and the resulting rank and prestige. Finally, a complex variable based on a combination of the students cultural, geographical and social heritage is used to discover the factors affecting the enrollment and staying power of students, as well as the number of years completed or the time of dropping out.

DOI: 10.52656/KORALL.2014.02.007. 📄 Teljes cikk (PDF)