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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Meritocracy"”.
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Meritocracy: A Socio-Educational Policy Conundrum Transversing Selected Works of James Bryant Conant
… sector." (Lemann, 1999).</p> <p>Interlacing the meritocracy discourse is the juxtaposition of power both private and public. Views on the roles of elites and experts in a democracy oscillate between standardized nationalism and enlightened provincialism. Historically, efforts were made to …
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THE AMERICAN DREAM: THE EFFECT OF MERITOCRACY BELIEFS OF WOMEN ON FUTURE EXPECTATIONS OF SEXISM
… the effects of endorsing or rejecting meritocracy beliefs on women's predictions of future sexism, and found that after a sexist event, women predicted future sexism at a different company to be less likely when they were high in meritocracy endorsement, compared to low. The current …
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Education and Meritocracy in China: The Role of Degrees in the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality
… hold an unwavering belief in education-based meritocracy, believing that socioeconomic success is largely determined by merit-based selection through the educational system regardless of their background. However, despite the symbolic power of education-based meritocracy, questions remain …
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The Myth of Meritocracy and Colorblindness in France: Experiences of Black Professionals in the French Workplace
<p>This research project explores the lives of successful French professionals of African descent in France, a country that promotes colorblindness, but where, according to research, minorities experience severe discrimination on the job market. It is a qualitative research study that combines the …
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Examining the Role of Well-Being in Government
… how political ideology and perceptions of meritocracy influenced support for government programs aimed at increasing societal well-being. Some research has been conducted to determine how living within countries and U.S. states under either liberal or conservative control can impact the …
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Political Power at the City University of New York: A Case Study of Meritocracy vs. Democracy – Open Admissions and the Imposition of Tuition, 1969–1976
… illustrate the fundamental contradiction between meritocracy and democracy, two of the main political ideals that influence the way we think about American society and its higher education system. Using CUNY as a case study—with a focus on City College—and citing original interviews as well as …
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The Effect of Accessibility of Status-Confirming Information on Investor Reactions to the Pay-Ratio Disclosure
… information increases investors’ perceptions of meritocracy especially when the pay-ratio is higher than the peer companies which helps investors rationalize the compensation gap made salient by the pay-ratio. I find that investors’ perceptions of meritocracy positively influence their SoP …
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Teaching normalcy, learning disability - the risky business of special education : exploring the retrospective reflections of schooling experiences by learning disabled post-secondary students
… understanding of education, ability, disability, meritocracy and normalcy. Collecting data through semi-structured qualitative interviews conducted during the Spring and Fall of 2007, the students actively engage and challenge the author’s original theoretical and methodological assumptions. …
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Dominance and Subordination: A Case study of Race, Identity and Pedagogy in Higher Education
… on the narrative of colourblind and gender-blind meritocracy which is the dominant ideology of education policy it evaluates how the students described these activities and whether they perceived any power relations. To frame the case study within the context of the case study institution it also …
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Game, Set, Watched: Governance, Social Control and Surveillance in Professional Tennis
… These modes of surveillance are founded on a meritocracy based on the ATP and WTA rankings systems. A player’s ranking affects how he or she is governed, surveilled, controlled, and even punished. Despite ostensibly promoting tennis athletes’ health protection and wellbeing, the systems of …
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MELTING INTO THE MARGINS: THE DIS-APPEARANCE OF NORMALITY
… we live in a new age of tolerance, equality, meritocracy and plurality. The disciplines of masculinity and family studies that this thesis critiques argue that in this new age and new society the ‘old’ idea of a white, middle class, gendered, heterosexual normality is becoming unworkable and …
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Colonialism and Empire: Are Reparations Owed by the United Kingdom to the Descendants of Slavery?
… racism through eugenics, racial theory and meritocracy. Precedents for reparations are investigated with a focus upon Germany (De Gruyter, 2011), and the rejection of early Caribbean migrants to Britain is highlighted (Rauhut, 2021). Discussion includes the origins of white supremacy in …
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Ser Americano: The Cost of Being American
… analysis of two concepts of American identity, meritocracy, and hyperdocumentation, that are mostly missing from the American identity literature. Additionally, I propose social citizenship as a theory for measuring how Dreamers ascribe to the American identity both explicitly and implicitly. …
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"The Veteran Problem''? The American WWII Veteran
… class that could undermine democracy and meritocracy. My research adds value to current studies of American veterans by emphasizing the extreme fear that has character- ized elite political discourse on WWII veteran reintegration and how that discourse related to veteran policy proposals …
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Families and the State: Relations of dependency, responsibility and educational inequality in Singapore
… inequalities in Singapore, and how Singaporean meritocracy – a cornerstone of Singaporean education policy – flattens social disadvantage, rendering poverty invisible. Currently, there is little research on how disadvantaged families navigate this stratifying, yet putatively ‘successful’ …
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Teacher Perceptions about Diversity and the Achievement Gap: Understanding the Discursive Construction of Whiteness
… participants held hegemonic ideologies including meritocracy, individualism, and cultural deficit that may hinder their success with children of color. Finally, the participants' written and oral discourse revealed discursive strategies that detracted from issues of race. These discursive …
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Education and the Reproduction of Inequality Praxis, Products and Palliatives
… to reveal its ideological basis. The concept of meritocracy which is central to our education system promotes inequality. Those who are powerful economically and politically can use their power to ensure that their values are the ones which are promoted in society. In this way such groups can …
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Class, gender and cultural work in British documentary film production: Experiences, subjectivities and policy discourses
… filmmakers are likely to reproduce discourses of meritocracy and postfeminism. A central aim of the thesis is to identify within independent film enterprises the workings of class and gender. The thesis argues that entrepreneurial work practices sustain, rather than depart from, discriminatory …
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The Myth of the Saving Power of Education: A Practical Theology Approach
… of education operationalize the ideology of meritocracy and promise individual success in the economic realm. Discourse analysis of political speeches and charter school programs demonstrates that education primarily offers its salvation to racial minority or working class students from …
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