Furthermore, it is argued that such an understanding has profound consequences for questions of meritocracy and plutocracy relating to the educational system and to how we perceive the Moroccan immigrant position in Dutch society. However, there are many downsides and barriers to meritocracy. A perfect meritocracy would theoretically create a fair society because people get what they deserve. They have out-competed their competition. It is only by taking into account these three factors that we can come to a comprehensive understanding of immigrants’ educational disadvantages. A meritocracy is a society where people get into positions of power, wealth, and influence out of skill. It is shown how social locations account for initial differences in educational opportunity, which tend to be reinforced through peer pressure in schools and neighborhoods, and through specific institutional characteristics of the Dutch educational system, namely, tracking and school segregation. In this paper a theoretical approach is formulated which integrates elements of the competing traditions of Human Capital Theory and Cultural Reproduction Theory into one theoretical framework. is that plutocracy is government by the wealthy while meritocracy is rule by merit, and talent by extension, now often used to describe a type of society where. This fact especially underlines the importance of an empirical investigation in the causes of, and policy resolutions for, Moroccan immigrants’ position within the Dutch educational system. Meritocracy or Plutocracy 1AbstrAct1 Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands have, throughout the last decades, been relatively unsuccessful in both schooling and job attainment. Educational failure and high (youth) unemployment rates are seen as explanatory variables for their disproportionate dominance in the Netherlands’s crime statistics. Meritocracy as Plutocracy: The Marketising of Equality Under Neoliberalism. In a meritocracy, society rewards (via wealth, position, and social status) those who show talent and competence as demonstrated by past actions. A meritocracy is an ideal system based on the belief that social stratification is the. Meritocracy is a system of a government or other organization wherein appointments are made and responsibilities assigned to individuals based upon demonstrated talent and ability (merit). Although later generations of immigrants are doing better than those of their parents (and grandparents), young Moroccan men tend to do worse than both native Dutch and other immigrant groups (especially those from Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles). A plutocracy or plutarchy is a society that is ruled or controlled by. For example, Western capitalist countries are generally meritocratic. Abstract Meritocracy, in contemporary parlance, refers to the idea that whatever our social position at birth, society ought to facilitate the means for. Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands have, throughout the last decades, been relatively unsuccessful in both schooling and job attainment.
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