Books like The meritocracy myth by Stephen J. McNamee

The Code of the Extraordinary Mind offers a practical framework to re‑think success, happiness, and purpose—presenting ten laws, exercises, and consciousness‑engineering tools to help readers redesign their beliefs and behaviors for extraordinary results.

An examination of job reservation policies for scheduled castes and economically backward classes in India, focusing on employment, civil service, and minority workforce issues.

The author immersed himself in the teenage underworld of Clarendon Heights. The Hallway Hangers, one of the neighborhood cliques, appear as cynical self-destructive hoodlums. The other group, the Brothers, take the American Dream to heart and aspire to middle-class respectability. The twist is that the Hallway Hangers are mostly white; the Brothers are almost all black. Comparing the two groups, MacLeod provides a provocative account of how poverty is perpetuated from one generation to the next. This edition retains the vivid accounts of friendships, families, school, and work that made the first edition so popular. The ethnography resonates with feeling and vivid dialogue. But the book also addressed one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy: how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next. MacLeod links individual lives with social theory to forge a powerful argument about how inequality is created, sustained, and accepted in the United States.