Meritocracy

Sociology (Humanities), 1956

The unjust exclusion of unqualified people from positions of responsibility which require qualification.

A term referenced from a 1956 Socialist publication (A. Fox in Socialist Comm) by British Labour party activist/sociologist Baron Michael Young of Darlington in his 1950 satirical article “The Rise of the Meritocracy” for the Fabian Society.

• https://oed.com/view/Entry/116806
• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=meritocracy
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=meritocracy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Young,_Baron_Young_of_Dartington
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy