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.
Keywords:
massification of higher education, differentiation of higher education, effectively maintained inequality.
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