From a political perspective, 1979 marked the introduction of Margaret Thatcher's neo-liberal government in Britain, closely followed in 1980 by the Reagan administration in the US. ... This is the very foundation of neoliberalism, in particular, the reasoning used to describe society as a meritocracy (Giddens, 2013:338) To further explore the ideal of meritocracy, neoliberalism borrows from the sociological perspective of functionalism, whereby all the parts of the state amass to form society. ... So from this perspective, it could be argued that neoliberals see the achievement gap as a...

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