Publisher: KORALL Társadalomtörténeti Egyesület

Coral - Journal for Social History

Korall - Társadalomtörténeti folyóirat

Frequency: irregular and other / Country: Hungary

Korall, a journal of social history was established in 2000, as the first of its kind in Hungary. The main aim of the editors is to make the approach of social history accepted in historical research. It gives the opportunity for young researchers and doctoral students, as well as the best experts of the field to publish. The journal makes translations of important texts of European social history trends avaiable to help researchers orientate and expand their theoretical knowledge. The Editorial Board publishes thematical issues, aiming to give a broad view of the new results of a particular field.

High School Students and Society in Hungary in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

Gimnazisták és társadalom Magyarországon a 19. század első felében

Author(s): Csaba Sasfi / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: historical analysis of mobility; the history the educated middle class; the history of the rise of intellectualization; historical statistics and sociology

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.