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Against Meritocracy

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Author(s): Jo Littler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication year: 2017
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Despite its publication in 2017, the book "Against Meritocracy" has established itself as a significant reference point, receiving an impressive 306 citations in academic literature. This level of engagement indicates that the book resonates within scholarly discussions surrounding meritocracy.

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Published by Routledge in 2017, "Against Meritocracy" has made a notable impact in academic circles, with a total of 306 citations reported. This citation count suggests that the book is frequently referenced as a critical resource, indicating its relevance in ongoing scholarly debates about meritocracy and its implications in various contexts. The book’s strength as a reference point for synthesis is bolstered by this significant engagement with existing literature.

Furthermore, its position as a commercial product is confirmed by its availability on platforms such as Amazon and Goodreads. This commercial linkage highlights both the academic significance of the text and its potential appeal to a broader audience interested in the themes of meritocracy and social justice.

While there are currently no recorded mentions in public discourse on platforms like Wikipedia or Reddit, the substantial citation metrics draw attention to the academic community's recognition of the book's contributions. Consequently, it serves as a foundational text in discussions surrounding meritocracy, often utilized by scholars seeking to explore or critique prevailing academic and social structures.

In summary, "Against Meritocracy" stands as an influential academic work, evidenced by its citation metrics. The continuous reference to this book within the scholarly community reflects an ongoing interest and critical examination of meritocracy, signifying its importance in contemporary discourse on educational and societal structures.

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306
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Online Mentions
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2017 (Jan–Dec)
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Who is citing this work? OpenAlex

Analysis of 306 citing works. 18.9% come from the Top 10 institutions. Median citing paper cited 2.0 times itself.

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  • Deakin University ROR (4.0)
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3 specific concepts identified.
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Citations OpenAlex

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2021 The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged Cultural Trends 10.1080/09548963.2021.1950512
2018 ‘Talent-spotting’ or ‘social magic’? Inequality, cultural sorting and constructions of the ideal graduate in elite professions The Sociological Review 10.1177/0038026118790949
2021 Philanthrocapitalism and the Separation of Powers Annual Review of Law and Social Science 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-120220-074323
2021 ‘Ruined’ lives: Mediated white male victimhood European Journal of Cultural Studies 10.1177/1367549420985840
2019 Voicing lived-experience and anti-racism: podcasting as a space at the margins for subaltern counterpublics Popular Communication 10.1080/15405702.2019.1622116
2021 The working classes and higher education: Meritocratic fallacies of upward mobility in the United Kingdom European Journal of Education 10.1111/ejed.12438
2021 Epistemic injustice and epistemic positioning: towards an intersectional political economy Current Sociology 10.1177/00113921211057609
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2022 Neoliberalism and the Ideological Construction of Equity Beliefs Perspectives on Psychological Science 10.1177/17456916211053311
2024 Maintaining the Meritocracy Myth: A critical discourse analytic study of leaders’ talk about merit and gender in academia Organization Studies 10.1177/01708406241236610
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2021 Youth Attitudes Towards Their Future: the Role of Resources, Agency and Individualism in the UK Journal of Applied Youth Studies 10.1007/s43151-021-00061-5
2018 Imagining Africa Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108652582
2020 The hyperopia of wealth: the cultural legitimation of economic inequalities by top earners Socio-Economic Review 10.1093/ser/mwaa047
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2019 Celebrity, aspiration and contemporary youth: education and inequality in an era of austerity Celebrity Studies 10.1080/19392397.2019.1601807
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2024 Im/Perceptible Boyhood in a Post-Andrew Tate World Australian Feminist Studies 10.1080/08164649.2025.2460822
2024 Merit and Inequality: Confucian and Communitarian Perspectives on Singapore’s Meritocracy 유교문화연구 (중국어판) 10.22916/jcpc.2024..41.29
2018 Resisting resilience: disrupting discourses of self-efficacy Pedagogy Culture and Society 10.1080/14681366.2018.1534261
2019 Evaluation and Decision Making in Higher Education Higher education 10.1007/978-3-030-11743-6_8-1
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2022 The paradox of local inequality: Meritocratic beliefs in unequal localities British Journal of Sociology 10.1111/1468-4446.12930
2021 Justifying inherited wealth: Between ‘the bank of mum and dad’ and the meritocratic ideal Economy and Society 10.1080/03085147.2021.1932353
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2020 Social justice leadership practice in unjust times: leading in highly disadvantaged contexts International Journal of Leadership in Education 10.1080/13603124.2020.1770866
2019 Trivializing inequality by narrating facts: a discourse analysis of contending storylines in Germany Critical Policy Studies 10.1080/19460171.2019.1623056
2021 Individualization and Individualism: Facets and Turning Points of the Entrepreneurial Self among Young People in Italy Sociology 10.1177/00380385211037857
2023 Paralympic cripvertising: On the gendered self-representations of Paralympic athletes on social media New Media & Society 10.1177/14614448231173882
2021 The conundrums of formal and informal meritocracy: dealing with gender segregation in the academy Higher Education 10.1007/s10734-021-00719-2
2021 Television and the “Honest” Woman: Mediating the Labor of Believability Television & New Media 10.1177/15274764211045742
2023 Mapping Feminist Politics on Tik Tok during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Content Analysis of the Hashtags #Feminismo and #Antifeminismo Journalism and Media 10.3390/journalmedia4010017
2024 Addressing Economic Inequality through Management Education: Disrupting Student Attraction to the Myth of Neoliberal Meritocracy Academy of Management Learning and Education 10.5465/amle.2023.0015
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2019 QUESTIONING the SUPER-RICH Cultural Politics an International Journal 10.1215/17432197-7289444
2024 Exploring how mumpreneurs use digital platforms' algorithms and mechanisms to generate different types of value Information Systems Journal 10.1111/isj.12518
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2025 Emotional Labor as a Situated Social Practice: Investigating the Performance of Emotional Labor by Women Migrant Workers in China’s Platform-based Gig Economy Gender & Society 10.1177/08912432251317160
2024 Meritocracy seen through the eyes of its champions: a comparative study of educational elites British Journal of Sociology of Education 10.1080/01425692.2024.2418097
2024 Examining the Meaning of “Violence” Through Machine Learning Techniques Journal of Interpersonal Violence 10.1177/08862605241301793
2021 Contradiction as Injustice: How Senses of Inequality Differ across National Contexts Sociology 10.1177/00380385211056212
2024 The illusion of meritocracy Social Science Information 10.1177/05390184241230406
2024 How Elites Mobilize the Vernacular: A Case Study of Australian Prime Ministers' Use of ‘Fair Go’ Rhetoric Government and Opposition 10.1017/gov.2024.2
2025 Polygenic Associations With Educational Attainment in East Versus West Germany: Differences Emerge After Reunification Psychological Science 10.1177/09567976251350965
2025 “China’s ‘Bad Students’”: Structural Harm and Silenced Voices in the Educational System Chinese Education & Society 10.1080/10611932.2025.2516451
2022 The Texture and History of Singapore’s Education Meritocracy Education in the Asia-Pacific region 10.1007/978-981-16-9982-5_9
2023 Improving but not equalising opportunity: the objective and effect of regulating fair access to higher education in England, and their implications for understanding higher education policy Oxford Review of Education 10.1080/03054985.2023.2211255
2023 In pursuit of (post-)bureaucratic promises: Analyzing the logics of career self-management discourse at a privatized company Scandinavian Journal of Management 10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101318
2024 Networks revisited: Social media, inequality and network culture in the independent television production sector European Journal of Cultural Studies 10.1177/13675494241236613
2024 Return to innocence? Diaspora screen media and “New Ethnicities” in the moment of diversity Journal of Postcolonial Writing 10.1080/17449855.2024.2312360
2025 The meritocracy trap: Early childhood education policies promote individual achievement far more than social cohesion PLoS ONE 10.1371/journal.pone.0326021
2025 De Rationibus caporali: justification and denial in emerging social representations and ideologies of caporali in migrant agricultural exploitation Social Semiotics 10.1080/10350330.2025.2604726
2019 Practices of hope: care, narrative and cultural democracy International Journal of Cultural Policy 10.1080/10286632.2019.1702032
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2020 Keep crafting and carry on: Nostalgia and domestic cultures in the crisis European Journal of Cultural Studies 10.1177/1367549420958718
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2023 Loving cultural work at Southbank Centre: Evolutions of emotional, embodied, collaborative labour European Journal of Cultural Studies 10.1177/13675494231152895
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2025 Lying Flat in Taiwan: Young People’s Alternative Life Choices in a Post-developmentalist Era Critical Asian Studies 10.1080/14672715.2025.2474510
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2026 Epistemic exclusion in higher Education: navigating racialised gatekeeping in Australia Whiteness and Education 10.1080/23793406.2026.2630315
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2023 Elizabeth Holmes: Silicon Valley, unicorns, and the limits of visibility Feminist Media Studies 10.1080/14680777.2023.2245979
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2020 Re-thinking the Creative Economy Through Informality and Social Inclusion: Changing Policy Directions from Latin America Goldsmiths (University of London) 10.1007/978-3-030-49384-4_7
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2020 ‘This is a tale of friendship, a story of togetherness’: the British monarchy, Grenfell Tower, and inequalities in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Cultural Studies 10.1080/09502386.2020.1863997
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2023 Welcome to the shopping revolution! Commodifying selfhood and rearticulating consumer capitalism at the Metro Centre, Gateshead The Sociological Review 10.1177/00380261231194504
2023 Male youth’s self-narrative and the discourse of meritocracy in South Korea Cultural Studies 10.1080/09502386.2023.2261967
2024 Internalised Individualism: Young People, Welfare Conditionality, and the Psychological Framing of Employment Aspirations Social Policy and Society 10.1017/s1474746424000320
2025 Cruel Meritocracy in 21st-Century U.S. Literary Narratives: An Introduction Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 10.14198/raei.30486
2019 Why becoming a national treasure matters: Elite celebrity status and inequality in the United Kingdom European Journal of Cultural Studies 10.1177/1367549419861630
2019 Occupying the intersection: RuPaul’s celebration of meritocracy Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies 10.1177/1749602019875864
2021 De Michael Sandel a César Rendueles: ¿es posible criticar la meritocracia en nombre del bien común? Isegoría 10.3989/isegoria.2021.65.12
2021 Reflexive practice, the “turn to care” and accounting for feeling Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media 10.33178/alpha.20.09
2024 Problematising teachers' accounts of privilege in elite high schools British Educational Research Journal 10.1002/berj.3972
2022 Educación Superior, CTI y desigualdad: límites y contradicciones sistémicas en tiempos de COVID-19 Revista del Núcleo de Estudios e Investigaciones en Educación Superior del Mercosur/Integración y conocimiento 10.61203/2347-0658.v11.n1.36521
2019 Beyond the Mainstream: Diversity Leadership and Leading Diversity Figshare 10.1007/978-3-030-25052-2_4
2022 ‘I can live without you’: Self-branding as individuation in young Chinese women’s transnational mobilities European Journal of Cultural Studies 10.1177/13675494221126545
2022 Imagining diversity Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media 10.33178/alpha.24.02
2023 Board Games as Social Media: Toward an Enchanted Inquiry of Digital Capitalism South Atlantic Quarterly 10.1215/00382876-10779388
2024 Televising Talent: Musicality, Meritocracy, and the Aesthetics of Exclusion Journal of the Society for American Music 10.1017/s1752196323000421
2024 Tensions in the pursuit of equal opportunities: A case study of an innovative secondary school British Educational Research Journal 10.1002/berj.4019
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2018 Analyzing Zombie Dystopia as Neoliberal Scenario: An Exercise in Emancipatory Catastrophism Frontiers in Sociology 10.3389/fsoc.2018.00020
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2022 The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s transition to mass education since the Second World War British Journal of Sociology of Education 10.1080/01425692.2022.2105476
2019 Interviewing and Hiring Practices in Brazilian Academia: Proposals Towards Improvement Societies 10.3390/soc9030057
2018 Whiteness, the Western Gaze and Africa Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108652582.001
2020 The (RE)Production of Meritocracy: Challenges from the Romanian Higher Education System Under Neoliberalism Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Sociologia 10.2478/subbs-2020-0003
2020 Creativity in the Service of Economic Recovery and “National Salvation”: Dispatches from the Greek Crisis Social Factory Science, technology and innovation studies 10.1007/978-3-030-53164-5_7
2020 Working Royals, Megxit and Prince Andrew’s disastrous BBC interview Journal of Language and Politics 10.1075/jlp.20020.chi
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2021 Setting Aside Settings: On the Contradictory Dynamics of “Flat Earth,” “Ordinalization,” and “Cold Spot” Education Governing Projects Knowledge and space 10.1007/978-3-030-78597-0_10
2022 Meritocracy: The Keyword of Market Populism Contributions to political science 10.1007/978-3-031-10808-2_8
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2023 Review of Kathryn Paige Harden (2021). The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality Postdigital Science and Education 10.1007/s42438-023-00399-4
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2024 The Power of the Powerless: Constructions of Self‐Employment in Czechia Social Inclusion 10.17645/si.7820
2024 Differences in polygenic associations with educational attainment between West and East Germany before and after reunification bioRxiv 10.1101/2024.03.21.585839
2018 Gendering the Screenwriter Unknown 10.1007/978-3-319-95732-6_2
2020 ‘New Italians’ and intercultural citizenship: Challenging hegemonic visions of migration, childhood and identity through fiction European Journal of Cultural Studies 10.1177/1367549420902807
2020 Girly Swots and Meritocracy Women a Cultural Review 10.1080/09574042.2020.1723336
2020 ‘Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History’: Transgressive Speech, Gender and Communicative Injustice Unknown 10.1007/978-3-030-47287-0_4
2020 Out of Place: Women as Linguistic Interlopers in Mediated Political Speech Unknown 10.1007/978-3-030-47287-0_7
2020 Feminism and Communicative Injustice Unknown 10.1007/978-3-030-47287-0_1
2020 Monopoly, sakk vagy póker? A kapitalizmus (félre)reprezentációja a nyilvánosságban JEL-KÉP 10.20520/jel-kep.2020.2.145
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2020 Return of the Oppressed: Complex Identification in A Separation Global cinema 10.1007/978-3-030-61006-7_4
2021 Book Review: Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien and Mark Taylor, Culture Is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries European Journal of Cultural Studies 10.1177/13675494211003576
2018 The Age of Capricorn Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108652582.005
2021 Vom Ausbleiben des Aufstiegs und der Krise als Dauer: Szenen sozialer Im/Mobilität im postmeritokratischen Kino der Gegenwart GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht Kultur und Gesellschaft 10.3224/gender.v13i3.06
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2019 Queer Use Unknown 10.1215/9781478007210-006
2019 Using Things Unknown 10.1215/9781478007210-002
2019 A Useful Archive Unknown 10.1215/9781478007210-001
2019 Use as Technique Unknown 10.1215/9781478007210-004
2018 Bibliography Unknown 10.1108/978-1-78743-710-420181012
2019 References Unknown 10.1215/9781478007210-008
2019 The Biology of Use and Disuse Unknown 10.1215/9781478007210-003
2019 Notes Unknown 10.1215/9781478007210-007
2018 Independent Creativity Unknown 10.1007/978-3-319-71670-1_7
2022 La variante léxica pelucón en Ecuador: Un análisis del discurso mediado por computadora URU Revista de Comunicación y Cultura 10.32719/26312514.2022.5.10
2018 Finding Anti-Civilisation in Africa Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108652582.002
2018 Making Whiteness Strange Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108652582.008
2018 Native Rights in Colonial Kenya: The Symbolism of Harry Thuku Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108652582.003
2018 References Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108652582.009
2018 ‘Exploding Africa’ Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108652582.004
2018 Index Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108652582.010
2018 Africa Rising, Whiteness Falling Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108652582.007
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2023 Development of the Self: Recognising Harm Palgrave studies in victims and victimology 10.1007/978-3-031-24715-6_3
2023 Esteem Palgrave studies in victims and victimology 10.1007/978-3-031-24715-6_5
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2023 Polityka kulturalna wobec wyzwań nowoczesnego społeczeństwa rynkowego: kultura – kreatywność – życie codzienne. Między polityką kulturalną a ekonomią kultury Silesian Digital Library (Silesian Library) 10.22367/uekat.9788378758624
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2023 Socially Just Principals in Unjust Times? A Discussion Educational leadership theory 10.1007/978-3-031-47616-7_8
2023 The Rise of the Meritocracy: The Genealogy of an Idea Unknown 10.1007/978-3-319-52269-2_7-1
2024 Remembering the Recession: Marketplace and Status Quo Journalism Journal of Communication Inquiry 10.1177/01968599241235217
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2023 Predictors of Consumer Aggression Toward Inclusive Brands: A Mixed Methods Investigation Timisoara Journal of Economics and Business 10.2478/tjeb-2023-0009
2024 The Rise of the Meritocracy: The Genealogy of an Idea Unknown 10.1007/978-3-031-55897-9_7
2024 Narrating Migrant Enterprise and Experience in the Australian Cultural and Creative Industries Palgrave studies in mediating kinship, representation, and difference. 10.1007/978-3-031-60754-7_9
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2025 ‘The standard is the standard’: constructing meritocratic student selves through sense-making on academic writing British Journal of Sociology of Education 10.1080/01425692.2025.2461183
2025 Elite Status‐Seeking and Class Reproduction in Civil Society: An Analysis of Corporate Elite Appointments to Charity Boards British Journal of Sociology 10.1111/1468-4446.13201
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2025 What kind of society does the resilient subject need? Exploring the role of resilience interventions in education Critical Studies in Education 10.1080/17508487.2025.2523419
2025 MERİTOKRASİ YANILSAMASI: LİYAKATİN LABİRENTİNDE BİR İNCELEME Akademik Yaklaşımlar Dergisi 10.54688/ayd.1464687
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2025 Not Only the Score: A Promoter-Based Merit Negotiation in Elite College Admission Battle SocArXiv (OSF Preprints) 10.31235/osf.io/qadnt_v1
2025 Justice for grasshoppers: reassessing the effort principle in distributive justice Synthese 10.1007/s11229-025-05108-1
2025 The Spectral Afterlives of Slavery and the Fallacious U.S. Meritocracy in Jesmyn Ward’s and Quntos KunQuest’s Narratives of Prison Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 10.14198/raei.29081
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2025 The hidden curriculum of the Amazon future engineer educational program Frontiers in Education 10.3389/feduc.2025.1611252
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2025 Leadership in neoliberal organizations: Theory and empirical illustrations Leadership 10.1177/17427150251376099
2025 The Etons of the East End: the ambiguities of educational urgency and the neoliberal fantasy British Journal of Sociology of Education 10.1080/01425692.2025.2556833
2025 Meritocracy as Seen by Young People Living in Poverty in Quebec, Canada Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie 10.1111/cars.70019
2025 Crisis, conflict and the affective politics of celebrity failure: Britney Spears, Meghan Markle and the spectacle of (misplaced) feminine fame Celebrity Studies 10.1080/19392397.2025.2575679
2025 Dialogical Self Theory: History, Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives Unknown 10.1007/978-3-031-70581-6_496-1
2025 From the figure of the obscene rich to the fantasy of its destruction: on Succession , schadenfreude and the godlike power of the super-rich on screen New Review of Film and Television Studies 10.1080/17400309.2025.2518810
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2025 Meritocracy, Recognition and Double Consciousness: Why Black and Muslim Italians Move to (and Sometimes Leave) Post‐Brexit Britain British Journal of Sociology 10.1111/1468-4446.70064
2021 Adult Students in Community Colleges and Economic Justice Unknown 10.1108/978-1-64802-697-320251014
2025 Subjective evaluation of income (un)fairness: Contrasting principles of justice? Papers Revista de Sociologia 10.5565/rev/papers.3409
2025 Teachers’ Perspectives on Private Education: Meritocratic (In)Equality of Opportunity in the Context of Neoliberalism Sociologija Mintis ir veiksmas 10.15388/socmintvei.2024.55.5
2025 Luck-based versus merit-based income shifts fairness perceptions and promotes cooperation in a public goods game Oxford Economic Papers 10.1093/oep/gpaf033
2025 Vivências periféricas generificadas RUA 10.20396/rua.v31i2.8681771
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2026 Meritocracy Unknown 10.1007/978-3-030-95454-3_339-1
2026 Female celebrity academics – who are they and what do they signify for higher education? Gender and Education 10.1080/09540253.2026.2617570
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2026 Situated Assessments: Centering Positionalities To Ground a Critical Human Rights Education Human Rights Review 10.1007/s12142-026-00755-4
2026 The Meritocratic Glass Ceiling: Students' Perception of Meritocracy in Two Highly Selective Study Programs With Opposing Gender Compositions British Journal of Sociology 10.1111/1468-4446.70094
2026 “Wish You Were Here”? Postcard Mapping the Complexities of Doctoral Mentorship Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education 10.1177/01614681261424569
2026 Nurturing merit: the role of alternative pathways to university Studies in Higher Education 10.1080/03075079.2026.2634879
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2025 Whose Excellence in Art Education? Interrogating Ableism in Neoliberal Rebranding of “Inclusive Excellence” Art Education 10.1080/00043125.2025.2573606
2026 The fallacy of meritocracy in the real-life social order Frontiers in Sociology 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1766088
2026 Educational meritocracy and the psychosocial burden of failure Equity in Education & Society 10.1177/27526461261434016
2026 ‘I’d like to thank the academy’ – Social mobility, education and literary form European Journal of Cultural Studies 10.1177/13675494261426790
2026 Does the Discrepancy Between Educational Aspiration and Educational Attainment Affect Life Satisfaction? Evidence from Japan Social Indicators Research 10.1007/s11205-026-03832-w
2026 Self-reflective counter-narrative in Melissa Lucashenko’s indigenous young adult novel Too Much Lip Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10.1057/s41599-026-07067-5
2026 Between Legitimation and Imitation: Meritocratic Reforms in Weakly Institutionalized Democracies (Evidence from Ukraine) Political Studies 10.53317/2786-4774-2026-1-4
2026 Richness and Its Legitimacy Unknown 10.1093/9780197780343.003.0025
2026 Accessing Optimism: Rethinking Wellbeing, Inclusion, and Belonging for Young People in Britain Who Are Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET) Youth 10.3390/youth6020041
2026 Hidden from view? Examining government policy support with sexual and gender minority entrepreneurs Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal 10.1108/qrom-09-2025-3179
2026 The hustle society: Mainstream precarity, voracious entrepreneurialism, grift and exploitation in contemporary culture The British Journal of Criminology 10.1093/bjc/azag033
2026 Ambivalent masculinities: digital culture, precarity and disaffection in the UK screen industries Feminist Media Studies 10.1080/14680777.2026.2660240
2026 Diversity, Credibility and Cultural Labour as ‘Skill’: Racialised Experiences of Young People in the Creative Industries Journal of Applied Youth Studies 10.1007/s43151-026-00211-7
2026 Why We Shouldn't Trust Institutions: Critical Theory and the Case for Radical Distrust Constellations 10.1111/1467-8675.70058
2026 The NeoFailure of Neoliberalism World-systems evolution and global futures 10.1007/978-3-032-18326-2_8