relative deprivation
(20th century)
A theory of the causes of social and political discontent.
People are roused to political action as a result not of absolute changes in their material conditions but of changes relative to the circumstances of those with whom they compare themselves.
Source:
W G Runciman, Relative Deprivation and Social Justice (London, 1966)
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