For decades, Muslims living in Western countries have experienced disproportionate scrutiny from police. Such can result relative deprivation; the feeling that they or their group is unfairly disenfranchised compared to others. Scholars theorised relatively deprived individuals may assess police-citizen interactions as more biased than non-relatively individuals. Yet, limited research tests thi...

Youth deviance has always been a major concern and an irritant issue and the focal attention among various societies and it has also been the focus of attention by a large number of authorities. This sociological study deals with the cultural tendency of the youth to deviance by a sociological procedure. Using a clustering method, in this survey, the data were obtained from a sample including 3...

outbreak of security, hygienic, and … problems has caused civil managers of birjand to realize the existence of marginalization phenomenon within the city; and seek to detect the procedure of development and organization, specially descending social consequences of this issue. the research is descriptive and applicable and is implemented to target the detection of the effective factors on formi...

The main objective of this study was to investigate modernism and relative deprivation in girls` tendency in the use of cosmetics. Today, among the range of young girls we have seen excessive use of cosmetics and this requirement could make industry to become more sustainable. Existing theoretical literature and previous research claim to influence modern appliances as a social pattern that has...

This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves Tanzanian National Panel Survey. We contribute to earlier literature Africa by controlling for time persistent unobservable individual characteristics (panel data) and, most important, two measures satisfaction (life and financial satisfaction), definitions reference group, testing ...

From the viewpoints of relative deprivation and social comparison jealousy, this article reports on a study that investigated the effects of choice on subsequent appropriate feeling and appreciation for another person who is superior to subjects in the same or different field. A 2 x 2 between-groups design was used to determine the effects of choice (present or absent) and field (same or differ...