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Write short note: Relative deprivation.

  • UPSC 2000
  • Sociological Thinkers

Relative deprivation is the sense of being worse off measured against a standard of comparison, not against an absolute level of need. Grievance depends less on what people have than on whom they compare themselves with.

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