Sökning: "meritocracy"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 15 avhandlingar innehållade ordet meritocracy.

  1. 1. Turning Privilege Into Merit : Elite Schooling, Identity, and the Reproduction of Meritocratic Belief

    Författare :Max Persson; Stina Bergman Blix; Maria Törnqvist; Sam Friedman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; elites; elite schooling; identity; ideology; meritocracy; meritocratic belief; justification; privilege; inequality; exclusion; inclusion; belonging; non-belonging; school segregation; socialization; reproduction; frame analysis; identity frames; meritocratic frame; privilege frame; ethnography; Sweden; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Sammanfattning : Previous research on meritocratic ideology and elite adolescent identity has mainly approached it from the outside, understanding meritocratic identity as a rhetorical cover to justify privilege. Through a frame analytic approach this study nurtures a phenomenological insider perspective, exploring through a one-year ethnography how adolescents at an elite high school experience, negotiate and perform identity in the tension between the school’s institutional definition of identity and their everyday life as young adults. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Corruption, Distortions and Development

    Författare :Sebastian Jävervall; Niklas Bengtsson; Eva Mörk; Jakob Svensson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Accountability; Corruption; Economic Development; Information Disclosure; International Trade; Meritocracy; Political Distortions; Social Unrest; State Capacity; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Essay I: Does increased government transparency make bureaucracies more meritocratic? I study the impact of politician disclosure requirements on the assignment of bureaucrats to public posts. I collect detailed information on bureaucrats' qualifications and construct a novel measure of bureaucratic mismatch—an index measuring the extent to which a bureaucrat is under- or overqualified to perform a specific task. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Mapping Gender in Academic Workplaces : Ways of reproducing gender inequality within the discourse of equality

    Författare :Paula Mählck; Nora Räthzel; Olle Persson; Lis Höjgaard; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Gender studies; gender; equality; inequality; academia; career; socio-bibliometric mapping; meritocracy; discourse; Genusforskning; Gender studies; Genus; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : Sweden is often described as one of the best countries in the world for women to live in. Despite this and despite a number of equal opportunity interventions within the area of higher education from the mid 1990s and on, Sweden follows the international pattern of the "leaking pipeline" when it comes to gender distribution in academia. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Den särskiljande politiken. En analys av debatten om positiv särbehandling i USA

    Författare :Hans Ingvar Roth; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Political and administrative sciences; value community.; value conflicts; multiculturalism; meritocracy; rectification; justice; African-Americans; USA; Affirmative action; minority politics; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Human rights; Mänskliga rättigheter; Theology; Teologi;

    Sammanfattning : Affirmative action is a contested policy in both political and academic debates in the United States. It is a policy that has been in place for over three decades and it is now seen as well entrenched in various settings of society, especially in educational and professional areas. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Just assessment in school : - a context-sensitive comparative study of pupils' conceptions in Sweden and Germany

    Författare :Bettina Vogt; Daniel Sundberg; Florian Waldow; Anders Jönsson; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; assessment; comparative education research; context-sensitive comparison; conceptions; focus group interviews; grading; Grounded Theory Methodology; justice; meritocracy; pupil research; standards-based reform; Pedagogics and Educational Sciences; Pedagogik och Utbildningsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines pupils’ justice conceptions regarding educational assessment. Due to the context-dependency of norms and values as well as of assessment, the study compares the justice conceptions of pupils in two different’socio-educational’ contexts: Sweden and Germany. LÄS MER