These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortunate.

An incisive study showing how cultural ideas of merit in academic science produce unfair and unequal outcomes. In Misconceiving Merit, sociologists Mary Blair-Loy and Erin A. Cech uncover the cultural foundations of a paradox.

The Merit Myth shows the way for higher education to become the beacon of opportunity it was intended to be.

Poignant and powerful, Without Merit explores the layers of lies that tie a family together and the power of love and truth.

In The Caste of Merit, Ajantha Subramanian challenges this comfortable assumption by illuminating the controversial relationships among technical education, caste formation, and economic stratification in modern India.

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In this wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and intelligence over the past two centuries, John Carson tells the fascinating story of how two nations wrestled scientifically with human inequalities ...

This dual-language compilation of seven complete major works and many shorter pieces from the Confucian period through the Ch’ing dynasty will be indispensable to students of Chinese literature.

Religion plays a central role in Thai society with Buddhism intertwined in the daily lives of the people.

Merit's history, he contends, is best understood within the context of its often conflicting interaction with the other ideals of the Founding, equal rights and government by consent. Merit implies difference; equality suggests sameness.