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Someone is labeled as deprived if he/she is underprivileged in a material or immaterial way. A person will be relatively deprived if he/she feels anger or dissatisfaction because of his/her discrimination in relation to the better situated others. Relative deprivation is, in short, the perceived discrepancy between personal status and the status of some relevant other(s). Without using the concept of quality of life explicitly, the concept of relative deprivation is described from the beginning in terms of quality of life substantially.
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Relative deprivation theory is a widely discussed field of contemporary sociology. A common assumption of this field of research is the fact that the feeling of being disadvantaged is related to a reference group. This feeling will arise from the comparison of oneself to others.
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Schulze, M., Krätschmer-Hahn, R. (2014). Relative Deprivation Theory. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_2457
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