Happe, Amelie (2025) The Belief in Prescriptive Meritocracy and Individuals’ Acceptance of Ethnic Versus Educational Inequalities. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
While prescriptive meritocracy serves as a widely endorsed justice principle, its effects on the acceptance of inequality remain ambiguous and encourage debate. Therefore, we tested whether different types of inequalities may influence this relationship, namely ethnic versus educational inequalities. Participants (N = 258) from countries within the European Union (EU) were recruited to fill out an online survey and randomly allocated to either the ethnicity-condition or education-condition. Individuals were assigned to read a text about societal disparities appropriate to each condition and their scores on acceptance of social inequalities were reported. The survey assessed individuals’ belief in prescriptive meritocracy. Both the relationship between prescriptive meritocracy and individuals’ acceptance of social inequalities as well as the moderation effect were found to be insignificant. This reinforces previous research reflecting a significant discrepancy in interpretations of prescriptive meritocracy. The difference in participants' scores on acceptance level for ethnic versus educational inequalities, was only found significant in direct comparison. The moderation model did not show a significant result. However, this indicates that ethnicity-based inequalities were less accepted than education-based inequalities. The findings suggest that prescriptive meritocracy may not serve as a predictor in the acceptance of social inequalities but people make a distinction between different types of social inequalities. Keywords: Prescriptive Meritocracy, Acceptance of Social inequalities, Meritocracy, Ethnic inequalities, Educational inequalities
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Al-Amine, M. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jul 2025 09:21 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Jul 2025 09:21 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/5542 |
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