Gimnazisták és társadalom Magyarországon a 19. század első felében
The volume analyses the role of a former secondary education institution, the gymnasium, in a period when the birth right-based estates system gradually gave way to the meritocracy of modern bourgeois society. The gymnasium played a significant role in this transformation, since this type of institution accepted students from diverse social backgrounds. In this way, it not only became an important means of increasing intellectualization, but also provided a widening channel for social mobility. The study focuses on the operation and the influence of the gymnasium as a social institution. Using and connecting a wide range of sources on various levels, it analyses the schooling processes in gymnasia and further education, the entry points to the spheres of higher or ‘academic’ education (to use a contemporary term), as well as the unique distribution of upward mobility afterwards.
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