Relative Deprivation Theory suggests that people who feel they are being deprived of almost anything considered essential in their society—whether money, rights, political voice or status—will organize or join social movements.

1. INTERGROUPRELATIONS:
Relative Deprivation
By, Shafath Alam
Student Id: 33e45fc2f24211e984fb57ec869c4446
Affiliation: Banaras Hindu University
Course Name: Academic Writing

2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Academic Writing

3. INTERGROUP RELATIONS
Intergroup relations refers to the way or
process in which the members of a
group perceive, think, feel about and act
toward the members of other group

4. DEPRIVATION
 Deprivation refers to removing or severely
limiting any thing that an organism badly
needs ( C.Evans;1978)
 Deprivation include both lack as well as
loss of factors considered necessary for
the growth and the adaptation of the
individual( G. Mishra & L.B.Tripathi; 1977)

5. TYPES OF DEPRIVATION
 Prolonged Deprivation
 Relative Deprivation

6. RELATIVE DEPRIVATION
The feelings of discontent caused by the belief
that one fares poorly compared to people in
other groups.
Absolute or Realistic Deprivation
The belief that One’s own resources are directly
threatened by people in other groups.

7. FAYE CROSBY’S MODEL OF RELATIVE
DEPRIVATION(1976)
Condition 1
Seeing
someone
posses x.
Condition 2
Wanting x.
Condition 4
Feasibility to
attain x.
Condition 3
Feeling Entitled
to x.
Condition 5
No feelings
personally
responsible for
the lack of x
Condition 6
Experiencing
Relative
Deprivation.

8. TWO FORMS OF RELATIVE DEPRIVATION
Walter Runciman (1966): two forms of
relative deprivation
(i) Fraternalistic Relative Deprivation
(ii) Egoistic Relative Deprivation

9. SOME IMPORTANT FACTS.
 Not all forms of relative deprivation
produces collective actions.
 Egoistic relative deprivation generally
leads to depression and de-motivation.
 Fraternalistic Relative deprivation plants
the seeds of collective actions.