Against Meritocracy —— Culture, Power And Myths Of Mobility

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ISBN: 9781138889552 出版年：2017 页码：251 Jo Littler Taylor & Francis

‘meritocracy’ today entails the idea that whatever your social position at birth, society ought to offer enough opportunity and mobility for ‘talent’ to combine with ‘effort’ in order to ‘rise to the top’. This idea is one of the prevalent social and cultural tropes of our time, as palpable in the speeches of politicians as in popular culture – and, argues jo littler, it is a powerful force against social equality.This timely and unique book uses a multifaceted, transdisciplinary cultural studies approach to analyse how this cultural trope works and how it has come to achieve dominance, ultimately arguing against meritocracy and in favour of genuine social equality.