The concept of “meritocracy,” introduced by the UK sociologist Michael Young in 1958, has been used to measure the difference between our society and a model society in which people are assessed by their achievements and not by the dystopian aspect of Young’s meritocracy. In order to confirm the importance of the empirical study of our society using the concept of meritocracy, we looked at Young’s definition of meritocracy and at how the concept was introduced in society with some changes in the definition. We examined why it is impossible to apply the concept of Young’s meritocracy in the research on our society. After this rechecking process, we reviewed the literature of empirical studies on our society using the concept, especially the ones focusing on “effort”. Finally, we reconfirmed the importance of using the concept of meritocracy.
雑誌名
東京大学大学院教育学研究科紀要
巻
56
ページ
181 - 190
発行年
2017-03-31
ISSN
13421050
書誌レコードID
AN10516641
著者版フラグ
publisher
出版者
東京大学大学院教育学研究科
出版者別名
The Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo
メリトクラシー概念を用いた現代社会の実証的検討の動向
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