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    Title: Class, Mobility and Merit - the Experience of Two British Birth Cohorts  Author(s): BREEN, Richard; GOLDTHORPE, John H. Date: 2001 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The controversial issue of 'meritocracy' can be most productively addressed if it is treated as one of direction of change over time: i.e. whether individual merit, understood in terms of ability, effort, or educational ...
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    Title: Class Inequality and Meritocracy: A Critique of Saunders and An Alternative Analysis  Author(s): BREEN, Richard; GOLDTHORPE, John H. Date: 1999 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Saunders' recent work claiming that contemporary British society is to a large extent 'meritocratic' is criticized on conceptual and technical grounds. A reanalysis of the National Child Development Study data-set, used ...