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PRIVATION RELATIVE [4 records]

Record 1 2019-05-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Psychology
DEF

... the judgment that one is worse off compared to some standard accompanied by feelings of anger and resentment.

CONT

The concept of relative deprivation has been used to explain the fact that persons who could be much worse off than they are but still feel deprived in comparison with even more fortunate groups often play a prominent part in social movements.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie sociale
CONT

Le traitement différentiel suscitant le désengagement psychologique au travail a été évalué par le biais du concept de privation relative. Ce concept se traduit par un sentiment d’insatisfaction résultant d’une comparaison défavorable [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Planning
  • Economic and Industrial Sociology
CONT

... relative poverty is defined by a poverty line contingent on the median income in that year. The most common relative poverty line used ... is equal to 60% of contemporaneous median income. This means that changes in relative poverty depend on how the incomes of low-income households change relative to middle-income households.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planification économique
  • Sociologie économique et industrielle
CONT

Pour déterminer un seuil de pauvreté relative, la méthode la plus fréquente consiste à fixer celui-ci à une proportion de la moyenne arithmétique ou de la médiane de la distribution de la consommation ou du revenu.

CONT

Un seuil de pauvreté relatif rend compte d’une situation de privation relative qui évolue avec le niveau de vie représentatif d’une société. Le seuil de pauvreté est alors habituellement fixé comme une fraction de la moyenne ou de la médiane.

Spanish

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Record 3 2009-09-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Psychology
OBS

The concept of collective relative deprivation (CRD) has often been used to explain why people support social changes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie sociale
CONT

Il apparaît également que l'action collective se décenchera plus facilement en situation de privation relative(ou de frustration relative). Les auteurs font une judicieuse distinction entre la privation relative collective(qui dépend de la comparaison du groupe avec d’autres groupes) et de la privation relative personnelle(qui dépend de la comparaison avec autrui), deux formes de la privation dont les liens ont un impact essentiel sur les possibilités d’action collective.

Spanish

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Record 4 1988-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Psychology
OBS

"Actually, we asked men to indicate whether they felt relatively deprived with regards to women's situation in the work force. Runciman (1968) named this feeling: Relative deprivation on behalf of others (RBO).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie sociale
OBS

Privation relative et programmes d’action positive(Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science; 1987; Vol. 19; no. 2; pp 167-176).

Spanish

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