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Michael Dunlop Young, Baron Young of Dartington (9 August 1915 – 14 January 2002), was a British sociologist, social activist and politician. Young was an urbanist , known as an academic researcher, polemicist and institution-builder.
The Rise of the Meritocracy is a book by British sociologist and politician Michael Dunlop Young which was first published in 1958. [1] It describes a dystopian society in a future United Kingdom in which merit (defined as IQ + effort) has become the central tenet of society, replacing previous divisions of social class and creating a society stratified between a meritorious power-holding elite and a disenfranchised underclass of the less meritorious. The essay satirised the Tripartite ...
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Michael Young (businessman) (1945–2023), British executive who facilitated the political process which led to the end of apartheid in South Africa. Michael Young (Canadian politician) (1934–2010), Canadian mayor of Victoria, British Columbia.
Oct 24, 2017 · ABSTRACT. Michael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future Meritocracy. Indeed, the word is now part of the English language. It would appear that the formula: IQ+Effort=Merit may well constitute the basic belief of the ruling class in the twenty-first century.
Michael Young (1915 – 2002) was one of the world’s most creative and influential social innovators. He wrote the manifesto that brought Clement Attlee’s Labour Party to power in 1945, and played a key role in shaping the post-war welfare state.
Michael Young (August 9, 1915 – January 14, 2002), awarded life peerage as “Baron Young of Dartington” in 1978, was a British sociologist, reformer, government advisor, and social entrepreneur.
Michael Young is one of the key figures in British twentieth century history. Focusing on family, community and social change, he has cascaded ideas, in the process coining new words, like 'meritocracy'. He has also initiated or played a major role in creating new and well-known organisations.
Feb 10, 2018 · The book is Michael Young’s “The Rise of the Meritocracy”—and it was published 60 years ago this year. Young argued that the most significant fact of modern society is not the rise of...
Dec 4, 2016 · Michael Young described the construction of the Labour Party’s 1945 election manifesto as ‘Beveridge plus Keynes plus socialism’. Although Young is perhaps most famous for his major contribution to this seminal document, his was an uneasy...
