Kontextuális hatások a középiskolások eredményességére

Abstract

The purpose of the study is double: on one part, the presentation and popularization of a scarcely used method in Hungarian sociology, the contextual analysis, on the other hand, the presentation of the effects of the cultural and social capital on high-school students’ results within an OTKA 2006-2008 research project. The regression models called the attention towards the importance of the contextual (institution-wide) effects on high-school students’ results and performance. This study presents these effects by using the Davis typology and separates the effects on individual and group level. Among the factors that explain the school success are gender, cultural capital brought from home and the students’ and their parents’ relational resources (in the case of the last one we accentuate those relationships which are determined by the students’ and their parents’ religiousness). We came to the results that while boys’ proportion in school does not have any contextual effect, the percentage of those parents who have diplomas already has an effect on the students’ performance, and concerning the social capital we also have interesting results.