Iskolázottság, rétegeződés és értelmiség - Adalékok a kulturális tőke megoszlásának regionális dimenzióihoz Magyarországon a kései dualizmus korában
Schooling, Stratification and the Intelligentsia. Regional Dimensions of the Distribution of Cultural Capital in Hungary of the Late Dualist Period

Summary/Abstract: The study applies two approaches for an analysis of the distribution of intellectual capital by large regions in late Dualist Hungary (1910). First, it focuses, on the basis of two tables, on educational data gained from clusters outside professional intellectuals “proper”. The tables display synthetic indicators for the (in the main) economically active categories of males as related to regional inequalities of endowment regarding educational capital. It then turns to a similar investigation of professional intellectuals. Third, there is a comparison of the most important categories of intellectuals and other elite groups with the inactive population taken as a whole as well as with the biggest branches of economically active males. Changes in volume (mostly via unequal growth) of the same categories are then scrutinized globally – looking at the differing share of women too – between 1890 and 1910. The preeminent position of the capital city is confirmed by the study, as well as the mostly strong position held by the central region i.e. between the Tisza and the Danube rivers. The “West-East slope” pertaining to modernization is not attested to here, though – for some North- and South-Eastern regions (like Transylvania) – have relatively good educational credentials; and all this is far from fully complying with the regional distribution of economic infrastructures.

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