Feeling Relative Deprivation: The Rocky Road from Comparisons to Actions

Improving Intergroup Relations: Building on the Legacy of Thomas F. Pettigrew

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 225-243

  Smith, Heather ^a   Walker, Iain ^b  

^a SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emotions; Group based interpretations of deprivation; Relationships between IRD and GRD; Relative deprivation models and causal argument; Rocky road; Support for, or participation in collective action

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889324028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444303117.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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