"relative deprivation" means feeling like you have less compared to others around you. It is the sense of not having as much as you think you should have, based on what you see others having.
Full definition
The under thirties have endured most the marked increase
in relative deprivation of any age group in England, according to a 11 - year study of data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS)
Professor Kontopantelis said: «We
define relative deprivation as a standard of living or quality of life below levels enjoyed by the broader society, to a high enough extent to introduce hardship, with little or no access to resources.
The IMD
quantifies relative deprivation across income, employment, education and skills, health and disability, crime, barriers to housing and services, and living environment.
In his book «David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants,» the writer Malcolm Gladwell
argues relative deprivation is a pervasive and insidious force in our lives, and that avoiding it is the key to career success.
In 2013 a child in Blackpool has an 8 times greater chance of being a looked after child (LAC) in out - of - home care, than a child in Richmond Upon Thames, and similar differences are found in rates of children on child protection plans (CPP),
with relative deprivation as the major causal factor (Bywaters, 2013).
Therefore, this cross-sectional study aimed to determine
whether relative deprivation at municipality level in Germany is associated with perceived social support, independent of individual socioeconomic position and demographic characteristics.
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Relative deprivation is an idea that says that when we make judgments about ourselves, we judge ourselves next to our immediate peers — people like us in the same room as us — not to the world at large,» Gladwell said in a recent interview with author Daniel H. Pink.
On the positive side, small reductions were observed in
the relative deprivation gap between White British and all other ethnic groups, though the gaps were much wider in post-industrial regions like the North West than in the South.
We know that pre-k programs yield large benefits when they replace an environment of
relative deprivation.
The relative deprivation effect, and its corresponding result on the sense of worth for young lawyers, would suggest otherwise.
Gladwell explores how
this relative deprivation effect actually affects people in the academic world by looking at John P. Conley and Ali Sina Önder's study on graduate research papers, which appears in «An Empirical Guide to Hiring Assistant Professors in Economics.»
This can come as a huge blow to the ego and quickly spiral into inferiority complexes and reactive behaviour, a phenomenon described as
relative deprivation.
But let's look at one concept (
relative deprivation) that plays a role, and consider one approach (embracing a famous cliché) that can help.
Relative deprivation is exactly what it sounds like.