<strong>The Meritocracy Myth</strong> challenges the widely held American belief inmeritocracy_that people get out of the system what they put into it based oni... » 

The Meritocracy Myth challenges the widely held American belief inmeritocracy_that people get out of the system what they put into it based onindividual merit. Fully revised and updated throughout the second editionincludes compelling new case studies such as the impact of social and culturalcapital in the cases of George W. Bush and Barack Obama and new material oncurrent topics such as the impact of the financial and credit crisisintergenerational mobility and the impact of racism and sexism. «