Catholic worker daughter from the country

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Catholic workers' daughter from the country is a formula that goes back to Ralf Dahrendorf and was used in the Federal Republic of Germany from the mid-1960s to describe educational disadvantage due to a particular multiple oppression.

Educational disadvantage in the post-war period

Up until the 1970s, especially in the working class, it was often the case that women do not have to go to university, “because they are getting married anyway”. The sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf stated in his study "Education is Citizens 'Rights" in 1966 to identify the educationally disadvantaged group: "Here we come across the three large groups of rural children, workers' children and girls, who are the fourth Catholic children with certain restrictions." . Only when the educational catastrophe was discovered in the 1960s, which led to a slight opening of high school, high school and university studies for working-class children, and with the emancipation of women as a result of feminism , the situation for working-class daughters in the education system also improved.

While in the 1970s “Catholic laborer's daughter from the country” was a formula for multiple discrimination, today it is more of the “Turkish youth from the problem area ” or the “ son of a migrant ”. Origin from lower social classes has remained a characteristic of educational disadvantage.

media

In the award-winning film adaptation of the Teufelsbraten of Ulla Hahn's novel The Hidden Word , the educational advancement of a working class daughter in a provincial town in the Rhineland in the 1950s is traced. In the Catholic home, the parents are skeptical of the daughter's hunger for education and perceive the daughter's table manners and High German as a devaluation of their way of life.

See also

literature

  • Viyan C. Adair, Sandra L. Dahlberg (Eds.): Reclaiming Class. Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America , Philadelphia 2003 ISBN 1-59213-022-4
  • bell hooks : where we stand: Class Matters , New York 2000 ISBN 0-415-92913-X
  • Hannelore Bublitz : Somehow I didn't belong anywhere: Workers' daughters at the university . Focus, Giessen 1980, ISBN 3-88349-208-6 .
  • Ralf Dahrendorf (1966): Education is a civil right . Hamburg: Nannen-Verlag
  • Erika Haas: children of workers and academics at the university. A gender and class specific analysis . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-593-36223-6 .
  • Ulla Hahn : The hidden word Dtv June 2003 ISBN 342313089X
  • Anne Schlüter (Ed.): Working-class daughters and their social advancement. On the relationship between class, gender and social mobility . Deutscher Studienverlag, Weinheim 1992, ISBN 3-89271-327-8 .
  • Anne Schlüter (ed.): Educational mobility. Studies on the individualization of working-class daughters in the modern age . Deutscher Studienverlag, Weinheim 1993, ISBN 3-89271-417-7 .
  • Gabriele Theling: Maybe I would have been happier as a saleswoman: Workers' daughters & college . Westphalian steam boat, Münster 1986, ISBN 3-924550-18-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Geißler: The metamorphosis of the worker's daughter to the son of a migrant. To change the structure of opportunities in the education system according to class, gender, ethnicity and their links . In: Peter A. Berger, Heike Kahlert (Ed.): Institutionalized inequalities. How education blocks opportunities . Juvenat Verlag, Weinheim and Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7799-1583-9 , pp. 71-100
  2. ↑ Beate Hock / Gerda Holz (eds.): Success or failure? Poor and disadvantaged young people on their way into working life . Fifth interim report on a study commissioned by the Federal Association of Workers' Welfare ( PDF ( Memento from May 6, 2003 in the Internet Archive )) p. 9
  3. ^ Rainer Geißler: The metamorphosis of the worker's daughter to the son of a migrant. On the change in the structure of opportunities in the education system according to class, gender, ethnicity and their links , in: Peter A. Berger, Heike Kahlert (ed.): Institutionalized inequality. How the education system blocks opportunities , Juvenat Verlag Weinheim and Munich 2005, pp. 71-100 ISBN 3-7799-1583-9