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Autor/inn/en | Jin, Jin; Ball, Stephen J. |
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Titel | Meritocracy, Social Mobility and a New Form of Class Domination |
Quelle | In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 41 (2020) 1, S.64-79 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0142-5692 |
DOI | 10.1080/01425692.2019.1665496 |
Schlagwörter | Social Mobility; Working Class; Selective Admission; Foreign Countries; Social Structure; Student Characteristics; Aspiration; Social Justice; College Seniors; Personality Traits; Self Concept; Social Distance; Access to Education; Ideology; High Achievement; Universities; China (Beijing); China (Shanghai) Soziale Mobilität; Arbeiterklasse; Bildungsselektion; Ausland; Sozialstruktur; Streben; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; College; Colleges; Senior; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Selbstkonzept; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Ideologie; University; Universität |
Abstract | Meritocracy is used by governments in many societies as an 'effective' way to represent social justice and legitimise -- explain away -- class inequality. By focusing on a small number of working-class students who achieve academic 'success' and have reached elite universities in an ideal meritocratic environment -- Chinese schooling -- this paper aims to discuss the relation of meritocracy to upward social mobility and class domination. Our analysis raises questions about the notion of 'success' in a meritocratic environment and suggests the operation of a new form of symbolic domination in relation to these working-class high-achievers. Through their 'successes' at school, they are distanced from their working-class localities and histories, while they also remain outside of the middle-class sensibilities that they aspire to -- they become a 'third class' whose core values reside in meritocracy itself. There is no transcendence of class here rather a different form of distinction and exclusion. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2024/1/01 |