Exam-centred Meritocracy in Taiwan: Hiring by Merit or Examination?

Meritocracy, Education and Occupational Attainment: What Do Employers Really See as Merit?

Sociological research consistently demonstrates that in modern industrial societies significant inequalities remain in opportunity chances for members of different social classes. The Merit Selection (MS) hypothesis predicts that the allocation of occupational positions in modern post-industrial societies should be based increasingly on meritocratic principles: ‘merit’ is defined as IQ plus eff...

Essays Meritocracy and Brazilian Society down with Meritocracy

“Down with meritocracy” is a frequent sentence in posters displaying demands from different professional categories on strike and other union demands in Brazil. So, it is far from being new. What is interesting, in the present moment, is that this demand – “down with meritocracy” – is reproduced simultaneously with a Brazilian party-political, administrative and institutional discourse change, ...

Online Approaches to Learning Vocabulary: Teacher-Centred or Learner-Centred?

Examples of learning vocabulary through the computer are appearing with increasing regularity in the recent CALL literature. Much of this learning, however, tends to be teacher-centred in that learners often rely on teachers to select the vocabulary items that they are to study. In the current study, pre-intermediate learners of English studying at a university in Japan were divided into two gr...

Merit Pay: Just or Unjust Desserts

Affirmative Action, Meritocracy, and Efficiency on Behalf Of: Affirmative Action, Meritocracy, and Efficiency

This article provides a framework for comparing meritocratic and affirmative action admissions policies. The context of the analysis is admissions to public universities; admission rules are evaluated as part of the public investment problem faced by a state government. Meritocratic and affirmative admissions policies are compared in terms of their effects on the level and distribution of human...