Sengupta, Nikhil K., Sibley, Chris G. (2013) Perpetuating One’s Own Disadvantage: Intergroup Contact Enables the Ideological Legitimation of Inequality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39 (11). pp. 1391-1403. ISSN 0146-1672. (doi:10.1177/0146167213497593) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:84612)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167213497593 |
Abstract
Contact with the dominant group can increase opposition, among the disadvantaged, to social policies that would benefit their group. This effect can be explained in terms of contact promoting support for an ideology of meritocracy, which privileges the distribution of societal resources based on individual merit, rather than group-level disadvantage. We tested this ideological mechanism in a large, nationally representative sample of Māori (a disadvantaged group in New Zealand; N = 1,008). Positive intergroup contact with the dominant group (New Zealand Europeans) predicted increased opposition to a topical reparative policy (Māori ownership of the foreshore), and this was fully mediated by increased support for the ideology of meritocracy. Intergroup contact may enable the ideological legitimation of inequality among members of disadvantaged groups, engendering political attitudes that are detrimental to their group’s interests. Contact with ingroup members had the opposite effect, increasing support for reparative policy by reducing subscription to meritocratic ideology.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1177/0146167213497593 |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
Depositing User: | Nikhil Sengupta |
Date Deposited: | 30 Nov 2020 02:14 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:27 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/84612 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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