Abstract Nowadays, university rankings are a familiar phenomenon in higher education all over the world. But how did achieve this status? To address question, we bring historical-sociological perspective and conceptualize as history. We focus on United States identify emergence of specific understanding organizational performance postwar decades. argue that advent constituted discursive shift, ...

Skou, a language of the central north coast of New Guinea, presents a rare example of multiple exponence of features in the agreement paradigms for subject. While this is a challenge for theories of morphology, because each morphological realization presents exactly the same featural information in Skou, there is a simple historical explanation for the modern complexities, involving cycles of c...

Measured by psychologists, conceived in critical terms, popularised as satire, and exploited politicians, meritocracy is a dilemmatic concept that has changed its meanings throughout history. Social psychologists have conceptualised operationalised both an ideology justifies inequality justice principle based on equity. These two conceptualisations express opposing ideas about the merit of are ...