Relative Deprivation: Specification, Development, and Integration

by Edited by Iain Walker , Heather J. Smith

• ISBN13: 9780521801324
• ISBN10: 052180132X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-03
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The relative deprivation construct has been widely used in the social sciences to explain phenomena from experiencing psychosomatic stress to participating in urban riots. It is currently a hot topic for research, being used especially to understand processes of social identity and responses to disadvantage by both disadvantaged minorities and privileged majorities. This book assembles chapters by the world's leading relative deprivation researchers in order to present a synthesis of current knowledge. Featuring cutting-edge integrative theoretical and empirical work from social psychology, sociology, and psychology, the book will be a standard reference work for relative deprivation researchers for years to come. It is relevant to researchers in intergroup relations, prejudice, racism, social identity, group processes, social comparison, collective behavior, and social movements. The book is suited for use as a text in graduate-level and advanced undergraduate-level courses.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Fifty Years of Relative Deprivation Research	1	(12)
Iain Walker
Heather J. Smith
PART ONE. SPECIFICATION
Fraternal Deprivation, Collective Threat, and Racial Resentment: Perspectives on White Racism	13	(31)
Marylee C. Taylor
Understanding the Nature of Fraternalistic Deprivation: Does Group-based Deprivation Involve Fair Outcomes or Fair Treatment?	44	(25)
Tom R. Tyler
E. Allan Lind
Relative Deprivation and Intergroup Attitudes: South Africa before and after the Transition	69	(22)
John Duckitt
Thobi Mphuthing
Is It Just Me?: The Different Consequences of Personal and Group Relative Deprivation	91	(28)
Heather J. Smith
Daniel J. Ortiz
PART TWO. DEVELOPMENT
Personal and Group Relative Deprivation: Connecting the `I' to the `We'	119	(17)
Francine Tougas
Ann M. Beaton
``Poisoning the Consciences of the Fortunate'': The Experience of Relative Advantage and Support for Social Equality	136	(28)
Colin Wayne Leach
Nastia Snider
Aarti Iyer
The Embeddedness of Social Comparison	164	(21)
C. David Gartrell
Japanese and American Reactions to Gender Discrimination	185	(15)
Matthew Crosby
Kazuho Ozawa
Faye Crosby
Collective Action in Response to Disadvantage: Intergroup Perceptions, Social Identification, and Social Change	200	(39)
Stephen C. Wright
Linda R. Tropp
PART THREE. INTEGRATION
Social Identity and Relative Deprivation	239	(26)
Naomi Ellemers
Relative Deprivation and Counterfactual Thinking	265	(23)
James M. Olson
Neal J. Roese
Relative Deprivation and Attribution: From Grievance to Action	288	(25)
Iain Walker
Ngai Kin Wong
Kerry Kretzschmar
Spontaneous Temporal and Social Comparisons in Children's Conflict Narratives	313	(19)
Anne Wilson
Etsuko Hoshino-Browne
Michael Ross
Prejudice as Intergroup Emotion: Integrating Relative Deprivation and Social Comparison Explanations of Prejudice	332	(19)
Eliot R. Smith
Colin Ho
PART FOUR. CONCLUSION
Summing Up: Relative Deprivation as a Key Social Psychological Concept	351	(24)
Thomas F. Pettigrew
Index	375