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Relative deprivation

Relative deprivation is the conscious felling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.

Definition two:

Relative deprivation is a perceived disadvantage in social or economic standing based on a comparison to others in a society.


The feeling of being deprived when a person compares himself with someone else, regardless of the objective reality is called relative deprivation.

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