{"id":1736,"date":"2025-02-01T13:43:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T04:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2025-02-03T09:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T00:03:37","slug":"1736","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/2025\/02\/01\/1736\/","title":{"rendered":"Varieties of Meritocratic Beliefs and Their Divergent Connections to Inequality Attitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Colloquium in January 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dongkyun Im (Seoul National <!-- notionvc: 8d59a8ce-609e-4ba3-a615-a067b4235944 --> University, Department of Sociology)<\/strong><!-- notionvc: bae28500-9646-4e00-afd2-25dbb918ccff --><br \/>\n<!-- notionvc: 0b1140e2-6cdd-45fd-8753-502d8840bc42 --><\/p>\n<p>A wide range of studies and arguments suggested that meritocracy reinforces or justifies inequality, thereby solidifying a winner-takes-all system. In addition, criticisms have been raised that the rise of meritocracy leads individuals to obsess over a narrow definition of fairness.<\/p>\n<p>However, meritocracy, or perceptions and beliefs about meritocracy, has highly multifaceted aspects. It can be anticipated that each aspect may relate to attitudes toward inequality or fairness in diverse ways.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation draws on a social survey conducted in 2024 to differentiate individuals&#8217; perceptions of meritocracy into various dimensions, analyze the factors influencing each of these dimensions, and examine how these attitudes relate to various perspectives on inequality.<\/p>\n<p>Based on these findings, the presentation highlights the complex and, in some cases, counterintuitive patterns of meritocratic beliefs in Korean society and discusses their implications.<!-- notionvc: 16219032-72ed-4bb9-adcf-0f16b0c3b590 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colloquium in January 2025 Dongkyun Im (Seoul National University, Department of Sociology) A wide range of studies and arguments suggested that meritocracy reinforces or justifies inequality, thereby solidifying a winner-takes-all system. In addition, criticisms have been raised that the rise of meritocracy leads individuals to obsess over a narrow definition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[21,92,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}