HOW DOES SOCIAL INTEGRATION CORRELATE WITH INTERGENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT?

Abstract

The main question of the study is how intergenerational educational mobility relates to an individual’s integration into society. Mobility is measured by comparing the highest educational attainment of the different generations. Although educational mobility is a widely researched field, there are only a few examples of it being examined in detail as an explanatory variable of the individual’s social integration. The added value of our research is on the one hand the examination of the relationship between the broadly interpreted dimensions of individual integration and educational mobility, and on the other hand an analysis of the differences between integration patterns by cohorts corresponding to the institutional expansion of education. We used the data of a questionnaire survey administered to a nationally representative sample within the framework of the Mobility Research Center project of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ (MTA) Excellence Cooperation Program. The secondary analysis specifically explores the different patterns of intergenerational educational and individual social integration using the same data source.