The tyranny of meritocracy and elite higher education

被引:6
作者
Brighouse, Harry [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Wisconsin Madison, Philosophy, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[2] Univ Wisconsin Madison, Humanities, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[3] Univ Wisconsin Madison, Educ Policy Studies, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[4] Univ Wisconsin Madison, Ctr Eth & Educ, Madison, WI 53706 USA
关键词
Equal opportunity; higher education; inequality; meritocracy; Michael Sandel; Michael Young; solidarity;
D O I
10.1177/14778785221113990
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
In The Tyranny of Merit, Michael Sandel argues that the American society is not meritocratic, that belief that it is causes various social harms, and that some of those harms -in particular, the costs to social solidarity - would be caused even if society actually were meritocratic. He also explores the way that the structure of higher education is implicated in the 'ethos' of meritocracy. This article explores just how the ethos of meritocracy might undermine solidarity, argues that the structural changes needed to achieve actual meritocracy would be benign, even though meritocracy itself is not very valuable, and identifies ways in which changes to the structure of public funding for higher education may inadvertently have undermined solidarity.
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页码:145 / 158
页数:14
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