On the joint evaluation of absolute and relative deprivation

Anderson, Edward; Esposito, Lucio

doi:10.1007/s10888-013-9262-7

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“…Consequently, in a world that is increasingly and more complexly digital, a person whose digital resources stay the same will become increasingly excluded because to stay "equally rich" they have to continuously increase these resources. Anderson and Esposito (2014) argued that, in contexts related to nonfinite, open ended resources such as a skill or opinion, a person's feelings about, or interpretations of the situation, that is, relative subjective deprivation, become more important than absolute objective deprivation. Considering that most of the resources under discussion in the digital inequalities literature are of an open ended nature, it seems clear that the subjectivity and relativity of deprivation should be valuable in theorizing explanations or even just describing digital exclusion.…”

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The Social Relativity of Digital Exclusion: Applying Relative Deprivation Theory to Digital Inequalities

Helsper

2016

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Digital inequalities research adopted the idea that exclusion is compound and multifaceted. Nevertheless, digital exclusion theory and empirical research often takes an individual, static approach; assuming that personal characteristics such as socioeconomic status consistently influence how individuals engage with information and communication technologies across different contexts. This article makes a theoretical contribution by looking at the value of relative deprivation theory (RDT) in understanding digital inequalities. RDT argues that evaluations of personal circumstances depend on social and temporal contexts and are, therefore, relative. Digital inequalities research could benefit from a shift toward this relative approach in both theorization and empirical research by incorporating explanations based on context and social group processes into existing individual and structural explanations of digital inequalities.

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The Social Relativity of Digital Exclusion: Applying Relative Deprivation Theory to Digital Inequalities

Helsper

2016

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“…At first, this appeared to be a positive development implying potential reduction in poverty. Yet, at the same time these countries' economies were growing and absolute deprivation was declining, the levels of relative deprivation were rising (Anderson & Esposito, 2014), suggesting an unequal distribution of the rising wealth. From a psychological scientist's perspective, an obvious question arising from such societal trends pertains to what psychological consequences they have on the individual living in these societies (for a recent review, see Manstead, 2018).…”

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The experience of deprivation: Does relative more than absolute status predict hostility?

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Sagioglou

2018

British J Social Psychol

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The present research examined the causal effects of absolute and relative status on experienced deprivation and hostility. On the basis of the theory of relative deprivation, we reasoned that the subjective experience of being worse off than others is a better predictor for hostility than is the absolute level of how well‐off people are. Indeed, three experiments showed that relative more than absolute status has an impact on aggressive affect. That is, even when objective resources were high, people were more hostile when their resources compared negatively to others’ resources. Although no consistent direct effects were found for a measure of aggressive behaviour, mediation analyses suggest that relative but not absolute deprivation ultimately impacts aggressive behaviour via increased feelings of disadvantage and aggressive affect. The results emphasize the drastic consequences of the rising income inequality, irrespective of a nation's absolute wealth.

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“…They propose a family of additive indices -which are not hierarchical -but do not study their properties. The same holds for Anderson and Esposito (2013). Finally, Decerf (2017) considers a different framework with one absolute threshold and one "hybrid" relative line whose threshold is everywhere above the absolute threshold.…”

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Combining absolute and relative poverty: income poverty measurement with two poverty lines.

Decerf

2020

Soc Choice Welf

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I study income poverty indices in a framework considering two poverty lines: one absolute line capturing subsistence and one relative line capturing social exclusion. In this framework, a set of basic axioms à la Foster and Shorrocks (1991) characterizes the class of hierarchical indices. This is a class of additive indices for which the poverty contribution of any individual depends on both her income and the income standard in her society. The key feature of hierarchical indices is to grant some form of precedence to absolutely poor individuals. These indices always consider that an absolutely poor individual is poorer than an individual who is only relatively poor, regardless of the income standard in their respective societies. Classical indices are not hierarchical, except in trivial cases. As a result, they yield debatable poverty comparisons of societies having different income standards.

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On the joint evaluation of absolute and relative deprivation

Cited by 13 publications

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The Social Relativity of Digital Exclusion: Applying Relative Deprivation Theory to Digital Inequalities

The Social Relativity of Digital Exclusion: Applying Relative Deprivation Theory to Digital Inequalities

The experience of deprivation: Does relative more than absolute status predict hostility?

Combining absolute and relative poverty: income poverty measurement with two poverty lines.

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