Egalitarianism and meritocracy are competing principles to distribute the joint bene…ts of cooperation. We examine the consequences of letting members of society vote between those two principles, in a context where groups of a certain size must be formed in order for individuals to become productive. Our setup induces a hedonic game of coalition formation. We study the existence of core stable...

How do people reconcile belief in meritocracy with the receipt of unearned economic gifts? Drawing on interviews first time homeowners who had bought property familial gifts or inheritanc...

Our feature documentary The Acting Class (2017) is here contextualised in the context of a critique cultural industries as part ideology meritocracy and resurgence work around class sociology culture. focuses on question stratification UK acting industry. We review our research this issue contextualise it within scholarly literature diversity inequality, creative broader reconfigurations politi...

Recent theoretical and empirical studies of the social determinants of health inequities have shown that economic deprivation, multiple levels of racism, and neighborhood context limit African American health chances and that African Americans' poor health status is predicated on unequal opportunity to achieve the American Dream. President Obama's election has been touted as a demonstration of ...

• Articulation of commencement speeches in US colleges through legitimating strategies. Legitimation at the crossroads Critical Discourse Analysis and Metaphor Analysis. Multifunctional nature metaphors colleges’ speeches. Meritocracy common good as core values narrative American Dream. Following an interdisciplinary approach anchored (CDA) (CMA), this article focuses on a genre which has flour...

Aldous Huxley composed Brave New World in the context of the Depression and the eugenics movement in Britain. Today his novel is best known as satirical and predictive, but an additional interpretation emerges from Huxley's nonfiction writings in which the liberal hurmanist expressed some surprising opinions about eugenics, citizenship, and meritocracy. He felt that his role as an artist and pu...

Relying on volunteer labor, open source projects like the Apache web server create commercial quality software. Why developers contribute freely without direct remuneration has been widely debated. We offer empirical evidence that such participation can be explained by existing theories in labor economics. Analyzing panel data covering a four-year period, we find that increases in human capital...

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 ...