Life without the ‘X’ Factor: Meritocracy Past and Present

Allen, Ansgar

doi:10.2304/power.2012.4.1.4

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“…In 1944, there was a single education act, but segregation was maintained by using different institutions: middle-class-dominated grammar schools and secondary moderns for those without the cultural or economic clout to go elsewhere. The demise of this tiered system, and the dawn of comprehensive schools, coincided with what Allen (2012: 10) calls ‘the rise of complexity’. Allen describes the breaking down of old systems and the emergence of new ones for ‘ the apparent disorder of a more chaotic and indeterminate world’ (11).…”

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Using exploratory factor analysis and Bourdieu’s concept of the illusio to examine inequality in an English school

Griffiths

2018

Power and Education

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This article examines how exploratory factor analysis and Bourdieu's concept of the illusio were applied to a study of an English secondary school in a disadvantaged area of the West Midlands. It examined the attitudes of the school's entire cohort of 156 students during their first year at the school. By comparing the students' self-reported attitudes to school and school practitioners' perceptions of students' attitudes to school, the study found that students from poorer backgrounds and those with a lower level of cultural capital were viewed more negatively than others by teachers and pastoral managers. Exploratory factor analysis was used to create robust economic and cultural capital profiles that reflected the capital within the field of the school. Exploratory factor analysis also created thematic factor scores from the data collected from both the students and the practitioners. The study found that the school, through ability grouping, created an elite group of high-capital students who practitioners perceived more positively than other students. However, this was not reflected in the students' self-reported views of the school. The findings suggested that although the outward appearance of the schooling had changed considerably since the tripartite system was introduced, the nature of the illusio, and the students advantaged and disadvantaged by it, remained fundamentally the same.

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Using exploratory factor analysis and Bourdieu’s concept of the illusio to examine inequality in an English school

Griffiths

2018

Power and Education

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“…Diante de determinadas práticas sociais, meritocracia tem sido entendida como um sistema de reconhecimento do esforço e do mérito individual, independente de classe social, religião, raça e cultura. Também conceituada como uma categoria analítica abstrata de forma a avaliar as relações sociais numa sociedade que se defi ne avançada conforme defende Allen (2012). Ou, ainda, segundo Barbosa (1999), meritocracia é uma organização social baseada em habilidades, esforços e talentos individual independente de atributos adquiridos.…”

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O discurso de meritocracia aplicado às políticas públicas de igualdade racial

Ferreira

2021

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Ao defender o princípio da meritocracia, a sociedade brasileira convive com um grande dilema quando se migra do campo das ideias para o terreno da ação dada as diferenças de oportunidades e condições para que as pessoas desenvolvam os seus talentos e habilidades. Neste artigo, exploramos estudos qualitativos sobre as implementação de políticas de promoção da igualdade racial para discutir a ideia de meritocracia no Brasil. O que se observa é que não há um reconhecimento de variáveis históricas e sociais como obstáculos para o alcance da igualdade substantiva, assim como do reconhecimento de políticas públicas como alavanca social e econômica.

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“…Particularly relevant to an ethnonational perspective is meritocracy's disciplining role. As Allen (2012) has it, at the same time as driving us, the meritocratic discourse also urges us to keep things in perspective. 'We require an economic morality in order to restrain our hopes.…”

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Meritocracy in the service of ethnocracy

Preminger

2020

Citizenship Studies

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Contributing to scholarship on differential citizenship of minority groups, this article asserts that the meritocracy discourse provides a discursive 'cover' for tensions between the economic imperative to integrate and the political desire to exclude ethnic minorities. Analysing the incorporation of Israeli Arabs in hi-tech, the epitome of an inclusive, ethnicity-blind enclave, the article claims that this meritocracy discourse celebrates diversity and inclusion while camouflaging ethnic hierarchies and the denial of the minority's collective rights. Thus the ethnic majority can champion ethnic minority inclusion without risking ethnic equality. The article therefore challenges a core capitalist assumption, that the market is 'the perfect arbiter' and rewards on merit, by underlining the 'ethnocratic' context of Israeli hi-tech's meritocracy: while the liberal citizenship discourse enables the ethnic minority to claim citizenship through economic participation, it cannot be separated in practice from an ethnonational citizenship discourse because ostensibly liberal spaces are infused with ethnonational meaning.

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Life without the ‘X’ Factor: Meritocracy Past and Present

Cited by 11 publications

References 23 publications

Using exploratory factor analysis and Bourdieu’s concept of the illusio to examine inequality in an English school

Using exploratory factor analysis and Bourdieu’s concept of the illusio to examine inequality in an English school

O discurso de meritocracia aplicado às políticas públicas de igualdade racial

Meritocracy in the service of ethnocracy

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