The Rise of the Meritocracy
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The Rise of the Meritocracy
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The Rise of the Meritocracy is a book by British sociologist and politician Michael Dunlop Young which was first published in 1958. It describes a dystopian society in a future United Kingdom in which merit has become the central tenet of society, replacing previous divisions of social class and creating a society stratified between a meritorious power-holding elite and a disenfranchised underclass of the less meritorious. The essay satirised the Tripartite System of education that was being pra
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1958 book by Michael Young
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
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2014-12-16T03:38:40Z
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2024-08-31T09:01:32Z
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