Revaluating relative deprivation theory

Strategies to cope with negative social identity: predictions by social identity theory and relative deprivation theory.

Predictions by social identity theory (SIT) and relative deprivation theory (RDT) concerning preferences for strategies to cope with a negative in-group status position were tested. The focus of the present research was a comparison of the theories regarding their differential patterns of prediction. For this purpose, a natural sample within a specific historical situation was investigated: Eas...

economic dissatisfaction and the movements of the contemporary middle east (based on relative deprivation theory)

present article study of economic reasons egypt revolution this deals with the real question this article is that the reason for the occurrence of recent movements in the two countries? this article with the use of the theory of relative deprivation robert appear to study on the role governments economic policies ben ali and blessed in the establishment of the middle class and the new deprivati...

Samuel Stouffer and Relative Deprivation

This paper first offers a tribute to Samuel Stouffer (1900–1960), a major contributor to social psychology. He helped to establish probability surveys as a useful method for social science, led three major studies at midcentury, and introduced important new concepts and statistical methods. Thus, both conceptually and methodologically, he shaped modern social psychology. Second, the paper revit...

Relative Deprivation and Intergroup Competition

Two experiments utilized a new experimental paradigm – the IPD-MD game – to study how relative deprivation at the group level affects intergroup competition. The IPD-MD game enables group members to make a costly contribution to either a within-group pool that benefits fellow in-group members, or a between-group pool, which, in addition harms out-group members. We found that when group members ...

An Inter-temporal Relative Deprivation Index