Relative deprivation

• It is a term used in social sciences to describe feelings or measures of economic, political, or social deprivation that are relative rather than absolute. For example, marginalization in education refers to educational deprivation.
• Relative deprivation may also be defined as the experience of being deprived of something to which one believes oneself to be entitled.
• This refers to the discontent people feel when they compare their positions to others and realize that they have less of what they believe themselves to be entitled than those around them.
• The concept of relative deprivation has important consequences for both behavior and attitudes, including feelings of stress, political attitudes, and participation in collective action.
• Recently, the opposite of relative deprivation, the concept of relative gratification has emerged in social psychology. It is relevant to researchers studying multiple fields in social