2 edition of Social class and merit in the high school found in the catalog.
Social class and merit in the high school
Richard A. Rehberg
Published
1974
by Center for Comparative Political Research, State University of New York at Binghamton in Binghamton, N. Y
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Written in
Edition Notes
Bibliography : leaves 32-34.
| Statement | Richard A. Rehberg and Evelyn Rosenthal. |
| Series | Research paper / State University of New York at Binghamton. Center for Comparative Political Research -- no. 27, Research paper (State University of New York at Binghamton. Center for Comparative Political Research) -- no. 27. |
| Contributions | Rosenthal, Evelyn B. |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Pagination | 34, [8] leaves : |
| Number of Pages | 34 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL22000959M |
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This is why class descriptors like "lower," "working," "upper," or "high" can have social as well as economic implications for how we understand the person described. Junior year, Delaney received the Saint Michael's College Book Award for Academic Achievement and Social Conscience.
She served for two years as the historian for the Latin Honors society and. Big Black Book; Food. It is the opposite when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others." But if New York's high.
If you start with a society where social class is not a function of “merit,” and suddenly allow meritocratic social mobility, you should expect to see a lot of social movement.
But if social class is already a function of “merit,” you should expect to see social movement decrease to a slow trickle driven by the variance of heritability. I’m not foolish enough to believe social media is going to usher in some utopian age or that adding a social media class to high school curriculum will magically solve society’s : Josh Spector.
Social Class and College Readiness; Patrick Sullivan. Much of what I outline in this letter to first-year high school students would probably not need to be spelled out (or at least not spelled out in the detail I have provided here) for students with college-educated parents.
High levels of effort will lead to a high social position, and vice versa. The concept of meritocracy is an ideal—because a society has never existed where social rank was based purely on merit. Because of the complex structure of societies, processes like socialization, and the realities of economic systems, social standing is influenced by.
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