The Meritocracy Myth

The Meritocracy Myth

According to the ideology of the American Dream, America is a land of limitless opportunity in which individuals can go as far as their own merit takes them. But there is a very large gap between how people think the system works & how the system actually does work. Both income & wealth are...

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Veröffentlicht in:Sociation today 2004-04, Vol.2 (1)
Hauptverfasser: McNamee, Stephen J, Miller, Robert K
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Income Inequality
Meritocracy
poverty
social inequality
Social Mobility
social stratification
Socioeconomic Factors
United States of America
Wealth
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Zusammenfassung:According to the ideology of the American Dream, America is a land of limitless opportunity in which individuals can go as far as their own merit takes them. But there is a very large gap between how people think the system works & how the system actually does work. Both income & wealth are highly skewed. Poverty is not randomly distributed either. The bottom half of the population controls only 2.8% of net worth. 2 Tables, 26 References. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:1542-6300
1542-6300