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Article: Group relative deprivation: cognitive versus affective components and protest orientation among Indian South Africans.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Social Psychology
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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Several theorists have maintained that a key factor in generating political and social protest is a sense of relative deprivation (Crosby, 1976; Davis, 1959; Gurr, 1970; Runciman, 1966). The term relative deprivation was first used by Stouffer and his colleagues in reference to the findings of a large-scale sociopsychological study of the U.S. army during the Second World War (Stouffer, Suchman, DeVinney, Star, & Williams, 1949), but Runciman was the first to formalize some of the important issues related to this concept. The term relative deprivation is generally used to describe discontent stemming from the belief that one is getting less than one is entitled to. Of ...