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Informationen zum Autor Geoff Dench is a senior research fellow of the Young Foundation, and was formerly head of sociology and social policy at Middlesex University. He has written a number of books on ethnic relations and on family relationships, and edited several collections. Klappentext It is now fifty years since Michael Young wrote The Rise of the Meritocracy -- a sociological fantasy set in the twenty-first century and portraying a sinister, highly stratified society organised around intelligence testing and educational selection. After some difficulty getting published, it was an immediate success and became very widely read. But it does not seem to have had the influence that Michael most wanted for it, over Labour Party thinking. The story was intended to help turn Labour away from meritocracy, by reminding it of the importance of communitarian values. Curiously, though, half a century later we have a Labour Government declaring the promotion of meritocracy as one of its primary objectives. So what is going on? This book offers a variety of opinions. Building on a conference held to mark the half-centenary of Michael Young's Institute of Community Studies, it contains commentaries by a selection of academics, journalists and politicians, from Asa Briggs to David Willetts, on the origin, meaning and future of meritocracy. Zusammenfassung Fifty years after the term "meritocracy" was coined! this book asks where the idea of meritocracy has led. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction: Reviewing Meritocracy 1 Geoff Dench Origin and Reception 15 The Labour Party as Crucible 17 Asa Briggs Meritocracy in the Civil Service, 1853-1970 27 Jon Davis A Tract for the Times 36 Paul Barker We Sat Down at the Table of Privilege and Complained about the Food 45 Hilary Land The Chequered Career of a Cryptic Concept 61 Claire Donovan Looking Back on Meritocracy 73 Michael Young Relevance to Modem Britain 79 A Brief Profile of the New British Establishment 81 Jim Ogg Face, Race and Place: Merit and Ethnic Minorities 90 Michelynn Laflèche Marginalised Young Men 97 Yvonne Roberts The Unmaking of the English Working Class 105 Ferdinand Mount Age and Inequality 109 Eric Midwinter Ship of State in Peril 116 Peregrine Worsthorne Analytical Value 125 The Moral Economy of Meritocracy: or, the Unanticipated Triumph of Reform and the Failure of Revolution in the West 127 Irving Louis Horowitz Japan at the Meritocracy Frontier: From Here, Where? 134 TAKEHIKO KARIYA And RONALD DORE Just Rewards: Meritocracy Fifty Years Later 157 Peter Marris What Do We Mean by Talent? 163 Richard Sennett' Resolving the Conflict between the Family and Meritocracy 168 Belinda Brown Meritocracy and Popular Legitimacy 183 Peter Saunders The Future 195 The New Assets Agenda 197 Andrew Gamble And Rajiv Prabhakar New Labour and the Withering Away of the Working Class? 205 Jon Cruddas A Delay on the Road to Meritocracy 214 Peter Wilby Putting Social Contribution back into Merit 221 Geoff Dench Ladder of Opportunity or Engine of Inequality? 232 Ruth Lister The Future of Meritocracy 237 David Willetts Notes 245 Index 263 ...
