Judgement over luck.It’s easier, thanks to the ‘just-world hypothesis’ and even the idea of meritocracy to assume people have more responsibility for their outcomes than they generally have. So people who end up worse off in life can be blamed for their individual failure to measure up. ...
Ascription, in sociology, is a way to acquire status, along with achievement or chance. In philosophy, it is related to belief ascription. Achievement A thing done successfully with effort, skill, or courage To reach this stage is a great achievement Ascription The act of ascribing. Achievement...
For the purpose of this project, mātauranga Māori is defined as “the unique Māori way of viewing themselves and the world, which encompasses (among other things) Māori traditional knowledge and culture” (WAI262 p6). Mātauranga Māori encompasses ancient...
2.2.1. The Myth of Meritocracy and Its Connection to College Decision-Making A meritocracy is a social system where individuals’ success is based on their individual talents, abilities, and achievements rather than other factors, such as their socioeconomic status or privilege [33]. Although educ...
The Urgency of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality as Lenses for Revising the U.S. Office of Management and Budget Guidelines, Census and Administrative Data in Latinx Communities and Beyond Nancy López 1,2,* and Howard Hogan 3 1 Department of Sociology, The University of New Mexico, ...
Once a work of art has gotten into the culture, it’s dead as far as I’m concerned. I think there is a difference between art and culture. Or as the sage once said, ‘Art is what we do; culture is what is done to us’. —(Andre [1969] 2004) The working-out of the idea ...
The social inequality that the ideal of competition logically produces is normatively justified through the dissembling concept of 'meritocracy', the claim that competition amongst individual agents enables talent and hard work to rise to the top. As Jo Littler argues, it is this 'socially ...