The Academic Profile of Doctoral School Staffs in Hungarian Universities in the Social Sciences and Humanities. A Comparative Study of Disciplines with Special Reference to Educational Science (2000-2010)

Abstract

The paper is grounded in the quantified exploitation of a large scale (N= cc. 14000) prosopographical data bank of practitioners of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in Hungary defined by their institutional position in a public research agency, a university, a college of higher educational or as author of books and studies in specialized SSH journals listed in an overall bibliography of SSH publications (1960-2010) by the staff of the Budapest Municipal Library. The focus is not on the whole available prosopographical data bank, but only on staff members of doctoral schools attached to universities in the early 21st century (cc. 2000-2010). Various ‘positional’ properties of the teaching personnel of doctoral schools are systematically compared hereby following their discipline, gender, academic qualification, scholarly productivity as well as a combination of major collective markers (like age, residence, size of publications, notably publications in foreign languages). For reasons of economy of space and since there is practically no significant publications available on the problem area in English or other international languages, the study includes only summary bibliographical references.