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Against Meritocracy - Culture, power and myths of mobility (Hardcover)
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Against Meritocracy - Culture, power and myths of mobility (Hardcover)
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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'. 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. 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. Part I explores the
genealogies of meritocracy within social theory, political
discourse and working cultures. 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 II uses a series of case
studies to analyse the cultural pull of popular 'parables of
progress', from reality TV to the super-rich and celebrity CEOs,
from social media controversies to the rise of the 'mumpreneur'.
Paying special attention to the role of gender, 'race' and class,
this book provides new conceptualisations of the meaning of
meritocracy in contemporary culture and society.
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