Meritocracy: a post-war conceptual history

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Meritocracy: a post-war conceptual history

By using the tools of conceptual history and ideology studies, this thesis traces the changing meaning of meritocracy in post-war Britain. In doing so it uses the concept as a lens through which to explore broader questions of intellectual politics, from the rise of the ‘affluent society’ to the ons...

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Main Author:	Civil, David
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2020
Subjects:	Meritocracy; Post-War Britain; Intellectual Politics; Inequality
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/63866/

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