Szülői háttér és iskolai sikeresség A huszadik században
Parental background and educational attainment in the twentieth century

Summary/Abstract: In the first half of the 20th century, school statistics showed the composition of parents in different schools and types of schools, so it was already clear that parents with low occupational status were under-represented in higher schools. In the 1950s there was an administrative policy exercise to change this, but after 1956 this policy was incompatible with consolidation. The school attandance and the social status of parents was first demonstrated by Zsuzsa Ferge in an 1959 survey, anticipating the French sociology of education – although the French sociology is traditionally regarded as the „model”. In the period 1960-2000, a number of relatively small sociological surveys showed that ‚mother’s education’ was the strongest factor, it was stronger determinant than either father’s education or the family’s occupational or wealth status. In the second part of the paper, we point out that Mihály Csákó’s 1998 data set of 61 000 cases provides a more detailed analysis of the family-school relationship than ever before or since. The personal database of the 1970–2001 censuses, became available in the 21st century, where all the social statistics of ‘fathers’ and ‘mothers’ (or more precisely, adults performing this function) can be linked to their children who visit primary and secondary school, and who has dropped-out, provides the modern analyst with a robust resource for the last third of the century.

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