Társadalomtörténeti múdszerek és forrástípusok. Salgótarján, 1986. szeptember 28-30. - Rendi társadalom, polgári társadalom 1. - Adatok, források és tanulmányok a Nógrád Megyei Levéltárból 15. (Salgótarján, 1987)
Angol nyelvi összefoglalók (English Summaries)
563 The social analyses of the groups of the co-opted and eliminated aristocrats give a remarkable insight into the structural change of the Hungarian aristocracy in the current of the capitalist development, at least, up to the World War I. Firstly, the preliminary results of the research show that which families of the aristocracy partly or totally lost their feudal constitutional rights in the Upper House as well as dropped out of the highest stratum of the landowning classes. The close analysis of the fifty co-opted members promises to be very illuminating; probably, they shared the same political views with the other two hundred and five members who were co-opted on the property-owning franchise. Secondly, the preparatory inquiry suggests that the structure and the distribution of the landed property of the aristocracy, and generally speaking, the landowning classes went through the major change during the period under our consideration. As far as the proportions and the regional divisions of the land-owning structure of the aristocracy are concerned, the comparative analysis of the native Hungarian and naturalized aristocracies promises to be informative. Thirdly, the other preliminary result of the inquiry raises the question how and to what extent the two strata of the aristocracy being divided along the line of the three thousand forints property tax were involved in the politics, the executive power, and the business of capitalist economy. Fourthly, the further research will also focus on the matrimonial, informal as well as stratificational relationships between the two strata of the aristocracy. The study of the presence and the proportion of these two strata of the aristocracy in the Nemzeti Kaszinó (National Casino) seems to be very interesting. (For example, only eighty-three among the one hundred and fifty-eight counts of the co-opted members of the Upper House belonged to the Nemzeti Kszinó in 1885.) 4. The above-mentioned preliminary remarks intend to indicate the directions of the further investigations, or rather to give an outline of the latent social stratification of the aristocracy which became manifest as a resusl of the constitutional reform of the Upper House. It seems to be obvious that the further investigation should follow the long-term process of the social transformation of the aristocracy, at least, from the Urbárium of 1767; the family histories and biographies also present themselves as the valuable sources. As far as the quantitative correctness is concerned, we need to be free of illusions. The 75-80 percent of the sources relating to the research project seem to be sufficient to outline the general trend of the long-term social transformation of the aristocracy. This research undertakes to correct the broad and, above all, static views of the well-established historiography about the aristocracy and to enlarge our knowledge about nineteenth-century development of the Hungarian society in general . ZOLTÁN TÓTH : The Sectorial Structure of the Occupational Statistics at the End of the Last Century, as the Heritage of the States of the Feudal Society
