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Jeanne Ballantine defines meritocracy.

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Professor Jeanne Ballantine defines meritocracy as how people achieve their class positions in ideal industrialized societies, based on their personal merit. She further explains that it does not really work like this in real life, particularly for people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Bibliographic Details
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:Closed-captioned in English.
Published: London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017.
Subjects:
Social mobility.
Equality.
Social capital (Sociology)
Social Mobility
Mobilité sociale.
Capital social (Sociologie)
social mobility.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video
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Summary:Professor Jeanne Ballantine defines meritocracy as how people achieve their class positions in ideal industrialized societies, based on their personal merit. She further explains that it does not really work like this in real life, particularly for people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (1 min., 31 sec.)) : sound, colour.
ISBN:9781473999558
1473999553