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Relative Deprivation

Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2011
Relative deprivation (RD) is the judgment that one is worse off compared to some standard accompanied by feelings of anger and resentment. Social scientists use RD to predict a wide range of significant outcome variables: collective action, individual achievement and deviance, intergroup attitudes, and physical and mental health.
Heather J, Smith, Thomas F, Pettigrew, Gina M, Pippin, Silvana, Bialosiewicz   +3 more
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Relative deprivation with imperfect information [PDF]

Economics Bulletin, 2008
The paper proposes an alternative index of relative deprivation which allows for selection of the reference group and imperfect information, two central elements of modern theories of social justice. An application to real data and a simulation on artificial data illustrate the use and some properties of the index.
Verme P., Izem R.
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Frustration and Relative Deprivation

2020
Abstract With its origin in the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Marx, relative deprivation has been investigated by researchers in psychology, sociology, anthropology, criminology, and political science. Relative deprivation is a judgment of oneself or one’s ingroup as being disadvantaged compared to another person or group,
Kimberly Rios, Cameron D Mackey
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Relative Deprivation

2001
The relative deprivation construct has been widely used in the social sciences to explain phenomena from experiencing psychosomatic stress to participating in urban riots. It is currently a valuable tool in research, being used especially to understand processes of social identity and responses to disadvantage by both disadvantaged minorities and ...
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Relative Deprivation Theory

2020
Abstract Relative deprivation (RD) is the product of an upward comparison that indicates that one’s disadvantaged situation is undeserved coupled with anger and resentment. RD is associated with reduced psychological health and increased individual deviance and collective action.
Heather J. Smith, Thomas F. Pettigrew, Yuen J. Huo   +2 more
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Inequality as Relative Deprivation

Acta Sociologica, 2004
Although concerns for inequality are at the heart of the sociological tradition, few sociologists have taken a serious interest in the normative and methodological issues involved in the choice between different measures of inequality. It is argued in this article that the widely used but also widely criticized Gini index can be seen to incorporate a ...
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An index of relative deprivation

Economics Letters, 1991
Abstract This paper proposes an index of relative deprivation which, unlike the earlier indices, assumes that the deprivation of a person is sensitive to income transfers among those who are richer than him. The proposed index is quite flexible in accomodating value judgements on the degree of envy felt by individuals in the society.
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The Measurement of Relative Deprivation

1990
Deprivation can roughly be defined as the utility foregone because of not possessing the economic variable under consideration, here income. Deprivation is relative because people feel deprived by comparing themselves with persons who have higher incomes.
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A model of relative deprivation

The Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 1986
(1986). A model of relative deprivation. The Journal of Mathematical Sociology: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 35-48.
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Relative deprivation and mortality in South Africa

Social Science & Medicine, 2010
This paper tests the relative income hypothesis by considering the relationship between mortality, income and relative deprivation in South Africa using individual-level data on income and five measures of relative deprivation each with a different reference group.
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