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The meritocracy myth /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McNamee, Stephen J., 1950- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Miller, Robert K., 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
Social mobility > United States.
Equality > United States.
Social capital (Sociology) > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • The American dream : origins and prospects
  • On being made of the right stuff : the case for merit
  • The silver spoon : inheritance and the staggered start
  • It's not what you know but
  • : social and cultural capital
  • Making the grade : education and mobility
  • I did it my way : the decline of self-employment and the ascent of corporations
  • The luck factor : being in the right place at the right time:
  • Mobility through marriage : the cinderella effect
  • With the collaboration of catherine b. mcnamee
  • An unlevel playing field: racism, sexism, and other isms
  • Growing inequality in the twenty-first century: what can be done?
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the author.