The Rise of the Meritocracy (Classics in Organization and Management Series)

Michael Young

Transaction Publishers

1994

180 páginas

6h 0m

ISBN-13: 9781560007043

The Rise of the Meritocracy is a satirical essay by British sociologist and politician Michael Young which was first published in 1958. It describes as dystopian society in future Britain in which intelligence and merit have become the central tenet of society, replacing previous divisions of social class and creating a society stratified between a merited power holding elite and a disenfranchised underclass of the less merited. The essay satirised the Tripartite system of education that was being practised at the time.