Relative Deprivation: Specification, Development, and Integration / Edition 1

by Iain Walker, Heather J. Smith

Overview

Relative deprivation is the experience of being deprived of something to which you think you are entitled. It has important consequences for both behavior and attitudes, including feelings of stress, political attitudes, and participation in collective action. This book assembles chapters by leading international researchers, who present innovative, integrative, theoretical and empirical advances in the area. It is relevant to researchers and students in social psychology, sociology, economics, politics, and other social sciences, especially those interested in intergroup relations, prejudice, social identity, group processes, social comparison, social justice, and social movements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521801324
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/03/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	390
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.87(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Iain Walker and Heather Smith; Part I. Specification: 2. Group deprivation, collective threat, and racial resentment: perspectives on white racism Marylee C. Taylor; 3. Understanding the nature of group deprivation: does group-based deprivation involve fair outcomes or fair treatment? Tom R. Tyler and E. Allan Lind; 4. Relative deprivation and intergroup attitudes: South Africa before and after the transition John Duckitt and Thobi Mputhing; 5. Is it just me? The different consequences of personal and group relative deprivation Heather J. Smith and Daniel J. Ortiz; Part II. Development: 6. Personal and group relative deprivation: connecting the 'I' to the 'we' Francine Tougas and Ann M. Beaton; 7. 'Poisoning the consciences of the fortunate': the experience of relative advantage and support Colin Wayne Leach, Nastia Snider and Aarti Iyer; 8. The embeddedness of social comparison C. David Gartrell; 9. Japanese and American reactions to gender discrimination Matthew Crosby, Kazuho Ozawa and Faye Crosby; 10. Collective action in response to disadvantage: intergroup perceptions, social identification, and social change Stephen C. Wright and Linda R. Tropp; Part III. Integration: 11. Social identity and relative deprivation Naomi Ellemers; 12. Relative deprivation and counterfactual thinking James M. Olson and Neal J. Roese; 13. Relative deprivation and attribution: from grievance to action Iain Walker, Ngai Kin Wong and Kerry Kretzschmar; 14. Spontaneous temporal and social comparisons in children's conflict narratives Anne Wilson, Etsuko Hoshino-Browne and Michael Ross; 15. Prejudice as intergroup emotion: integrating relative deprivation and social comparison Eliot R. Smith and Colin Ho; Part IV. Conclusion: 16. Conclusion Thomas F. Pettigrew.