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‘But He Is Only a Human, So Why Do They Hate Them? Because of His Job?’: Children's Critical Co‐Inquiries on Caste, Privilege and Positionality

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Caste hierarchies in India place children within a complex system of oppressor‐oppressed relationships that structurally reinforce practices of othering. This paper draws on research with children from privileged caste communities, raising critical consciousness of caste oppression in a primary school classroom in New Delhi, India.
Arushi Mathur
wiley   +1 more source

Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
wiley   +1 more source

The Meritocracy Trap

Tidsskrift for Professionsstudier, 2020
Lene Mosegaard Søbjerg
doaj   +1 more source

How Stephen Jay Gould wrote Macbeth--Not giving credit where it's due: lazy referencing and ignoring precedence

Ideas in Ecology and Evolution, 2014
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Simon Robert Leather
doaj  

Networks paving the way: Apprenticeship, guilds, and access to mastership in early modern Genoa

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates how kinship and professional networks shaped labour market outcomes in the guild‐based labour market of early modern Genoa. Using a newly constructed dataset of more than 8,000 apprenticeship contracts (1451–1530), I examine the extent to which family and guild connections influenced apprentices' chances of attaining ...
Alessandro Brioschi
wiley   +1 more source

The fallacy of meritocracy in the real-life social order. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Teles da Silva L, Abramov DM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Elite persistence in family: The role of adoption in prewar Japan

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do elite families often maintain their social and economic status across generations? This paper examines the role of adoption in sustaining elite persistence in prewar Japan. Under the Japanese inheritance system, families without a biological son could adopt an heir to continue the family lineage and transfer assets and social status ...
Hiroshi Kumanomido, Yutaro Takayasu
wiley   +1 more source

Role of ethics, meritocracy, and professionalism in public sector reforms: A Q methodology study. [PDF]

PLoS One
Abdul Kader Jilani MM, Tasnim S, Rahman N, Asgar ASMR, Ahmed N.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Unprincipled Principals in the Accountability Chain: Autonomy and Political Control Within Tax Administration in a Developing Country Context

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT SDG 16 emphasizes the need for accountable institutions, often based on the assumption that public officials are accountable to politicians, who in turn are accountable to citizens. However, in many developing countries, neopatrimonial governance can weaken this accountability chain, as politicians themselves may act as “unprincipled ...
Edidiong Bassey, Emer Mulligan
wiley   +1 more source

Meritocracy, Recognition and Double Consciousness: Why Black and Muslim Italians Move to (and Sometimes Leave) Post-Brexit Britain. [PDF]

Br J Sociol
Varriale S, Franceschelli M.
europepmc   +1 more source