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Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Volume 55, Issue 5, Page 322-342, May 2025.ABSTRACT Despite rising inequality making upward social mobility difficult, faith in the American Dream persists. Americans are often exposed to narratives where hard work leads to upward social mobility but are less likely to hear about the numerous instances where the same efforts don't pay off.
Erin Shanahan, Anne E. Wilson
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Justification trajectories for pension inequality in Chile (2016-2023): the role of social class and beliefs in meritocracy. [PDF]
Front SociolCastillo JC +3 more
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The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Adopting a law‐in‐context approach, this article suggests that merit‐based migrant selection in the European Union (EU) is implicitly shaped by racial dynamics. With a focus on EU law and more specifically on cases from the Netherlands and Germany, it argues that the growing emphasis on merit enables a limited number of ‘racialised others’ to ...
Sarah Ganty +3 more
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Perceptions of inequality and meritocracy: their interplay in shaping preferences for market justice in Chile (2016-2023). [PDF]
Front SociolCastillo JC +3 more
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Working at Boimondau: A Community Experience
Sociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 66-74, March 2025.Abstract In the 1940s and 1950s, France witnessed the emergence of labor communities whose ambition was to escape capitalism and abolish wage labor. This article focuses on Boimondau, the best‐known community at the time. In terms of work, the central activity in the life of the community, two main tensions lastingly structured the collective and ...
Michel Lallement
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Cognitive gene enhancements and the capitalist meritocracy. [PDF]
BMC Med EthicsPrince S.
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on the efficiency of team-based meritocracies [PDF]
According to theory a pure meritocracy is efficient because individual members are competitively rewarded according to their individual contributions to society. However, purely individually based meritocracies seldom occur.
Gunnthorsdottir, Anna +3 more
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From Populism to Fascism? On Our Present‐Time Political Categories
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With the global rise of far‐right governments, two categories are available to describe this aspect of our current times: populism and fascism. This raises a twofold question: analytically, which is the most accurate to describe these authoritarian governments?
Federico Tarragoni
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From Perceived Economic Inequality to Support for Redistribution: The Role of Meritocracy Perception. [PDF]
Int Rev Soc PsycholTejero-Peregrina L +3 more
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Meritocracy and its discontents
Public ChoiceAbstract This paper explores the justifications for meritocracy, using the assignment of students to classrooms and workers to firms as contexts. I argue that there is fundamental distinction between retrospective meritocracy, in which assignments are rewards for past achievements such as test scores, and prospective meritocracy, in ...
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