What Meritocracy Means to its Winners: Admissions, Race, and Inequality at Elite Universities in The United States and Britain
How do winners of processes of meritocracy make sense of those processes, especially in the face of forceful public critiques of their unequal outcomes? In this paper I analyze the meaning-making with respect to merit in university admissions of White, native-born undergraduates attending elite Amer...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2018-08-01
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| Series: | Social Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/7/8/131 |