»Herausgeforderte Verdienste: Die Analyse von Kompetenzen in der Berufsbildungsforschung durch die Theorie der Konventionen«. Although merit has been critiqued and problematised such that it has become an object of public debate, it is still deployed as an inherent feature of particular educational …
The paper describes the origins and discusses the results of a study of youth transitions to work in England and Germany in the late 1980s, at a time of dramatic social, economic and political change. The novel design involving quantitative and qualitative data collection from young men and young wo…