The Globalisation of Positional Competition?

By P. Brown. 2000

180 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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In Political Science and International Relations

1. M. Tomlinson
2. Nicolas Roulin
3. Adrian Bangerter
4. S. Robertson
5. H. Lauder
6. R. Dale
7. P. Brown
8. J. Spring

In Public Administration

1. M. Tomlinson
2. H. Lauder
3. R. Dale
4. Nicolas Roulin
5. S. Robertson
6. Adrian Bangerter
7. P. Brown

In Sociology and Political Science

1. M. Tomlinson
2. H. Lauder
3. Nicolas Roulin
4. Adrian Bangerter
5. R. Dale
6. S. Robertson
7. P. Brown
8. J. Spring

Citations in the corpus

• The Opportunity Trap: Education and Employment in a Global Economy (2003, background): “Meritocratic rules, for instance, involve restrictions on the middle classes in the use of their superior market power in the interest of social cohesion or state legitimation (Brown, 2000).”
• Globalisation, knowledge and the myth of the magnet economy (2006, background): “…already play by these rules, but the social elites from other countries such as Germany, France, Sweden and Korea28 may also break free of the restraints imposed on the wealthy through national rules of meritocratic competition to gain positional advantage for their offspring (Brown, 2000, p. 646).”
• Students’ use of extra-curricular activities for positional advantage in competitive job markets (2013, background): “The labour market has therefore become the site of a positional competition among graduates for a limited number of jobs at the national and, to some extent, at the international level (Brown 2000; Tomlinson 2007).”
• The social justice implications of privatisation in education governance frameworks: a relational account (2013, background): “In addition, it is necessary to be aware of forms of competition ‘rigging’ around influences over markets (Brown, 2000, p. 637).”
• ‘The degree is not enough’: students’ perceptions of the role of higher education credentials for graduate work and employability (2008, background): “The assumptions that underlie the human capital and rational choice model are in direct contrast to the positional conflict and credentialist interpretation of the relationship between educational credentials and employment (Collins 1979; Hirsch 1977; Brown 2000).”