Objective The project is multi-disciplinary by character. It focuses upon socio-historical processes of the transformation and 'circulation' of educated and ruling elites in several uniquely composite (both multi-ethnic and multi-confessional) East European regional or national societies, having experienced a number of radical changes of social and political regime as well as state souvereignty in the first half of the 20th century. The historical scope of the study extends from post-feudalism to communism. Societies involved comprise Hungary, Slovakia, Transylvania, Voivodina in the Carpathian Basin, Latvia and Estonia in the Baltics. The study draws upon sociological survey methods applied to historically successive elite brackets in form of exhaustive or quasi-exhaustive computerized prosopographical data banks, based on standardized individual biographies of elite members (as permitted by mostly archival sources to be exploited). The main targets would include secondary school graduates, students and graduates of higher education, the main intellectual professions (like doctors and lawyers.), the political power elites as well as 'reputational elites' - those cited in biographical dictionaries. The information fed into our data banks help to clarify thanks to various procedures of multi-variate statistical schemes the contrasting socio-cultural selection and recruitment of elite members, their educational path from primary to higher education, their professional career, intellectual creativity as well as socio-political standing and orientation. This is the first time that large region- or country-wide elite clusters are submitted to systematic socio-historical analyses, covering simultaneously all or most markets of activity and self-assertion of educated clusters in a vast international and comparative perspective related to culturally composite societal formations. Fields of science engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcomposites Keywords Baltics Central Europe confessions etchnicity intellectuals middle class minorities professions prosopography ruling class social history of elites sociology of education Programme(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) ERC-AG-SH6 - ERC Advanced Grant - The study of the human past Call for proposal ERC-2008-AdG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant Host institution KOZEP-EUROPAI EGYETEM EU contribution € 338 308,00 Address NADOR UTCA 9 1051 Budapest Hungary See on map Region Közép-Magyarország Budapest Budapest Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Vanda Mohácsi (Ms.) Principal investigator Gyozo István Karády (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Beneficiaries (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all KOZEP-EUROPAI EGYETEM Hungary EU contribution € 338 308,00 Address NADOR UTCA 9 1051 Budapest See on map Region Közép-Magyarország Budapest Budapest Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Vanda Mohácsi (Ms.) Principal investigator Gyozo István Karády (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data WESLEY JANOS LELKESZKEPZO FOISKOLA Hungary EU contribution € 433 320,00 Address DANKO UTCA 11 1086 Budapest See on map Region Közép-Magyarország Budapest Budapest Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Anita Szabo (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data