Clientele vs. Status Seeking? Subject Field Choice in Higher Education in the Hungarian- Romanian Cross-border Region

Autori:

Adrian HATOS

Cod: ISSN: 1583-3410 (print), ISSN: 1584-5397 (electronic)
Dimensiuni: pp. 153-168

How to cite this article:

Hatos, A. (2017). Clientele vs. Status Seeking? Subject Field Choice in Higher Education in the Hungarian-Romanian Cross-border Region. Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, 59, 153-168.

Abstract:

The article presents the results of testing several hypotheses related to the issue of impact of differentiation inspired by the model of Effectively Maintained Inequality using data from the survey done in the spring of 2012 among students from the Romanian-Hungarian cross-border region. The multinomial logistic regressions of subject-field enrollment in two public universities from the crossborder region confirm most of our expectations based on the theses of the Effectively Maintained Inequality (EMI) in the case of the large public University of Debrecen (Hungary) – social reproduction effects in case of the most lucrative specialties of Law and Medicine but less support for the hypotheses in the case of the University of Oradea (large public university in Romania). The lack of confirmation of EMI hypotheses in Romania suggests a possible and plausible consequence of expansion in clientele-oriented university systems: a decrease of contribution of higher education to social reproduction.