Against Meritocracy Littler Jo
Against Meritocracy Littler Jo Meritocracy today involves the idea that whatever your social position at birth, society ought to offer enough opportunity and mobility for 'talent' to combine with…
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Against Meritocracy Littler Jo
Meritocracy today involves 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'. In this book Jo Littler argues that meritocracy is the key cultural means of legitimation for contemporary neoliberal culture - and that whilst it promises opportunity, it in fact creates new forms of social division.Against Meritocracy is split into two parts. This idea is one of the most prevalent social and cultural tropes of our time, as palpable in the speeches of politicians as in popular culture.
It traces the dramatic U-turn in meritocracy's meaning, from socialist slur to a contemporary ideal of how a society should be organised. Part I explores the genealogies of meritocracy within social theory, political discourse and working cultures. Part II uses
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