SOAN 2112 Lecture Notes - Meritocracy, Royal Statistical Society
2 Mar 2013
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Most of europe time of great misery, invasion, occupation. Millions immigrated from europe to this new world. Many revolts broke out in this conditions and these prompted social movements, marxism, anarchy, christian socialism, etc. People took up social issues and reforms. Nationalist movements had strong economical component chose meritocracy over aristocracy (system where advancement is based on ability rather then aristocratic system) Need to find the right answer inspired innovation. 1831 london statistical society stats were formed by the people before the gov"t formed the statistics more atheists in the 18th century who were looking to the sciences for understanding the world. Ii henri (comte) de saint simon (1760-1825) fought in american revolution functionalism and marxism both influenced by him industrialization, positivism, social physiology. Work is first to deal with the problems we recognize. Saint simon and comte were influenced by two religious guys.
