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Against meritocracy : culture, powe and myths of mobility / Jo Littler

Por:

Littler, Jo

Detalles de publicación: London : Routledge, 2018Edición: 1rst edDescripción: xiv, 236 pISBN:

9781138889552

Resumen: Meritocracy today involves the idea that whatever your social position at birth, society ought to offer enough opportunity and mobility for ‘talent’ to combine with ‘effort’ in order to ‘rise to the top’. This idea is one of the most prevalent social and cultural tropes of our time, as palpable in the speeches of politicians as in popular culture. In this book Jo Littler argues that meritocracy is the key cultural means of legitimation for contemporary neoliberal culture – and that whilst it promises opportunity, it in fact creates new forms of social division. Against Meritocracy is split into two parts. Part I explores the genealogies of meritocracy within social theory, political discourse and working cultures. It traces the dramatic U-turn in meritocracy’s meaning, from socialist slur to a contemporary ideal of how a society should be organised. Part II uses a series of case studies to analyse the cultural pull of popular ‘parables of progress’, from reality TV to the super-rich and celebrity CEOs, from social media controversies to the rise of the ‘mumpreneur’. Paying special attention to the role of gender, ‘race’ and class, this book provides new conceptualisations of the meaning of meritocracy in contemporary culture and society. (Font: Editor)

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Tipo de ítem	Biblioteca actual	Colección	Signatura topográfica	Estado	Fecha de vencimiento	Código de barras
Libro	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 01858	Disponible		CERC18010012

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Ladders and Snakes -- I. Genealogies: 1. Meritocracy’s genealogies in social theory ; 2. ‘Rising up’: gender, ethnicity, class and the meritocratic deficit ; 3. The movement of meritocracy in political rhetoric -- II. Popular parables: 4. Just like us? Normcore plutocrats and the popularisation of elitism ; 5. #Damonsplaining and the unbearable whiteness of ‘merit’ ; 6. Desperate success: Managing the mumpreneur -- Conclusion: Beyond neoliberal meritocracy -- Index

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