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Access to Higher Education and Support for Meritocracy: Effort, Skill, and Education as Components of Merit

Sociological Science
Prior research has emphasized perceptions of effort-based meritocracy (i.e., the descriptive belief that hard work leads to success), noting a rising trend in meritocratic beliefs across countries.
Hye Won Kwon, Jani Erola
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What is Meritocracy? A Critical Review of the Meritocracy Literature from a Public Administration Perspective

Publicus
A literature review on meritocracy might be confusing for researchers since it reveals two clearly different approaches. Meritocracy is often argued with negative connotations in politics, sociology, and educational studies, as ...
Ali GÜNEYİ
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Educare al merito per promuovere l’etica della responsabilità nella scuola delle competenze

Studi sulla Formazione, 2022
The essay, starting from the analysis of the terms: merit, meritocracy and meritoriousness, reflects on the important role of the school that must educate the new generation to be able to recognize the many traps of meritocracy.
Rosaria Capobianco
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present a meritocratic process model in administrative system with human resources improvement approach at Golestan University of Medical Sciences

مشاوره شغلی و سازمانی, 2020
Objective: The purpose of this study was to present a meritocratic process model in administrative system with human resources improvement approach at Golestan University of Medical Sciences.
الهام سرشار, روح اله سمیعی   +1 more
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Book review: The tyranny of merit: What’s become the common good?

Brock Education: a Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2023
This review examines Michael Sandel's The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? Sandel, following in the footsteps of academics who criticize meritocracy as a formula for governing our society, traces its roots from the providentialist ...
Long Vu
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Designing a meritocracy model in a higher education system with respect to the role of mediating leadership [PDF]

پژوهش در نظام‌های آموزشی, 2018
The purpose of this paper is to present a model of meritocracy based on its related factors regarding the role of mediator of service leadership in the province's central university system.
Ebrahim Givaki, Ali Reza Manzari tavakoli, Sanjar Salajegheh, Ayoob Sheykhi   +3 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Capitalism, Class and Meritocracy: a cross-national study between the UK and Brazil

Educação & Realidade, 2022
Drawing on a Marxist theoretical framework, this essay concentrates on the analysis of the roles played by meritocracy in the capitalist system and its impacts on the working classes.
Michael Wayne, Vinícius Neves de Cabral
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A Compensatory Control Account of Meritocracy

Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2014
Why are people motivated to support social systems that claim to distribute resources based on hard work and effort, even when those systems seem unfair?
Chris Goode, Lucas A. Keefer, Ludwin E. Molina   +2 more
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Meritocracy

, 2023
In this chapter we discuss meritocracy in higher education and argue that despite its promise, the main meritocratic assumptions and practices do not lead to greater gender diversity, equity and inclusion. First, we define meritocracy, nuancing debates around the intersections of privilege, talent, effort and achievement.
Dominik Jackson-Cole, Gabriel Goldmeier
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