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Direct linkAllen, Ansgar – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2011
This paper examines Michael Young's 1958 dystopia, "The Rise of the Meritocracy". In this book, the word "meritocracy" was coined and used in a pejorative sense. Today, however, meritocracy represents a positive ideal against which we measure the justice of our institutions. This paper argues that, when read in the twenty-first century, Young's…
Descriptors: Satire, Social Systems, Ability, Competition
