@inbook{10.7758/9781610447256.8,
 ISBN = {9780871545060},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/9781610447256.8},
 abstract = {The idea of “meritocracy” originates in sociological fantasy—that is, in Michael Young’s remarkable piece of social science fiction,The Rise of the Meritocracy,which was first published in 1958.In this book, the recent history of British society is recounted from the standpoint of 2033. The narrator describes how a meritocracy was created in Britain in the late twentieth century as a work of enlightenment. Merit, defined as “IQ plus effort,” was taken to be expressed primarily through educational attainment. A strict relationship was then established between such attainment and the social positions that individuals obtained. The educational elite},
 author = {John Goldthorpe and Michelle Jackson},
 booktitle = {Social Class: How Does It Work?},
 pages = {93--117},
 publisher = {Russell Sage Foundation},
 title = {Education-Based Meritocracy: The Barriers to Its Realization},
 year = {2008}
}