Meritocracy and popular legitimacy

Political Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages 183-194

  Saunders, Peter ^a  

^a Centre for Independent Studies   (Australia)

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EID: 33845631229     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: 1467923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2006.00794.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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2. P. Bauer, Equality, the Third World and Economic Disillusion, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981, chapter 2.
3. A. H. Halsey, A History of Sociology in Britain, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004.
4. Peter Saunders, Unequal but Fair? A Study of Class Barriers in Britain, London, Institute of Economic Affairs, 1996.
5. G. Payne, Mobility and Change in British Society, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1987.
6. John Goldthorpe, Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain, 2nd edn, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1987;
7. Gordon Marshall, Harold Newby, David Rose and Carol Vogler, Social Class in Modern Britain, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987;
8. R. Erikson and J. Goldthorpe, The Constant Flux: a Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1992.
9. Saunders, Unequal but Fair?, chapter 6;
10. and Peter Saunders, 'Might Britain be a meritocracy?', Sociology, vol. 29, no. 1, 1995, pp. 34-41.
11. Saunders, Unequal but Fair?, chapters 7 and 8;
12. Peter Saunders, 'Social mobility in Britain: an empirical evaluation of two competing explanations', Sociology, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 261-88;
13. R. Bond and P. Saunders, 'Routes of success: influences on the occupational attainments of young British males', British Journal of Sociology, vol. 50, no. 2, 1999, pp. 217-50;
14. Peter Saunders, Reflections on the meritocracy debate in Britain', British Journal of Sociology, vol. 53, no. 4, 2002, pp. 559-74;
15. D. Nettle, 'Intelligence and class mobility in the British population', British Journal of Psychology, vol. 94, 2003, pp. 551-61.
16. Emile Durkheim, The Division of Labour in Society, London, Macmillan, 1933, pp. 375-7.
17. K. Davis and W. Moore, 'Some principles of stratification', American Sociological Review, vol. 10, 1945, pp. 242-9.
18. Frank Field, Neighbours from Hell, London, Politico's Publishing, 2003.
19. See also J. Bartholomew, The Welfare State We're In, London, Politico's Publishing, 2004;
20. Theodore Dalrymple, 'The frivolity of evil', City Journal, Autumn 2004, pp. 113-19.
21. Robert K. Merton, 'Contributions to the theory of reference group behaviour', in his Social Theory and Social Structure, New York, The Free Press, 1957.
22. Quoted in Ronald Dore, 'Man of merit', in Geoff Dench, Tony Flower and Kate Gavron, eds, Young at Eighty: the Prolific Public Life of Michael Young, Manchester, Carcanet, 1995, p. 173.
23. See also Gordon Marshall and Adam Swift, 'Merit and mobility', Sociology, vol. 30, 1996, pp. 375-86.
24. Hans Eysenck versus L. Kamin, Intelligence: the Battle for the Mind, London, Pan, 1981.
25. Peter Saunders and Colin Harris, Privatization and Popular Capitalism, Buckingham, Open University Press, 1994, Table 7.2;
26. and Peter Saunders, 'What is fair about a "Fair Go"?', Policy, vol. 20, no. 1, Autumn 2004, pp. 3-10.