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sleep
sleep resting state in which an individual becomes relatively quiescent and relatively unaware of the environment. During sleep, which is in part a period of rest and relaxation, most physiological functions such as body temperature, blood pressure, and rate of breathing and heartbeat decrease. How... Read more
Milarepa
Milarepa , 1040-1143, saint and poet of Tibetan Buddhism . He was the second patriarch of the Kargyupa sect, the first being Milarepa's guru Marpa (1012-97), who studied under Naropa, the Bengali master of Tantra, at Nalanda. Milarepa's autobiography recounts how in his youth he practiced black mag... Read more
Hubert de Burgh
Hubert de Burgh , d. 1243, chief justiciar of England under kings John and Henry III . Having served as a royal minister and commander in France, he was appointed justiciar by John in 1215. He continued in this position after John's death (1216) and in 1217 took part in the defeat of the French fle... Read more
Antony
Antony or Marc Antony, Lat. Marcus Antonius, c.83 BC-30 BC, Roman politican and soldier. He was of a distinguished family; his mother was a relative of Julius Caesar . Antony was notorious from his youth for riotous living, but even his enemies admitted his courage. Antony and Caesar ... Read more
Slaughterhouse Cases
Slaughterhouse Cases cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1873. In 1869 the Louisiana legislature granted a 25-year monopoly to a slaughterhouse concern in New Orleans for the stated purpose of protecting the people's health. Other slaughterhouse operators barred from their trade brought suit... Read more
collective bargaining
collective bargaining in labor relations, procedure whereby an employer or employers agree to discuss the conditions of work by bargaining with representatives of the employees, usually a labor union. Its purpose may be either a discussion of the terms and conditions of employment (wages, work hour... Read more
cirrhosis
cirrhosis , degeneration of tissue in an organ resulting in fibrosis, with nodule and scar formation. The term is most often used in relation to the liver, because that organ is most often involved in cirrhosis. Cirrhosis of the liver interferes with the liver's metabolism of nutrients, detoxificati... Read more
fakir
fakir , [Arab.,=poverty], in Islam, usually an initiate in a Sufi order. The title fakir is borne with the understanding that poverty is the need to be in relation to God. This term, along with its Persian equivalent, dervish, was extended in Western usage to Indian ascetics and yogis, and incorre... Read more
fraud
fraud in law, willful misrepresentation intended to deprive another of some right. The offense, generally only a tort , may also constitute the crime of false pretenses. Frauds are either actual or constructive. An actual fraud requires that the act be motivated by the desire to deceive another to... Read more
Ramayana
Ramayana [story of Rama], classical Sanskrit epic of India, probably composed in the 3d cent. BC Based on numerous legends, it is traditionally the work of Valmiki, one of the minor characters. The epic was revised and set down in its best-known form by the poet Tulsi Das (1532-1623). The Ramayana... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "relative deprivation"

Loss
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...cannot be recovered. The term loss is a comprehensive one, and relative, since it does not have a limited or absolute meaning. It has been used interchangeably with damage, deprivation , and injury. In the law of insurance, a loss is the ascertained... Read more
Mathews v. Eldridge Test
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...of the interest at stake; (2) the risk of an erroneous deprivation of the interest because of the procedures used, and the...subjective, calling on courts to make judgment calls on the relative merit of the interest at stake. The second part of the...Government agencies also may reduce the risk of erroneous ... Read more
revolution
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...been recognized as an important cause of revolution. Tocqueville pointed out that it was not absolute poverty but relative deprivation that contributed to revolutions. The fall of the old order also depends on the ruling elite losing its authority... Read more
water balance
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...excessive amount of water relative to solute. The osmolality...decreases ADH release. Water deprivation What happens when our water...physiological effects of water deprivation? The first sign is the sensation...The lethal limit of water deprivation is about 20%. Osmoregulation... Read more
Abuse
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...physical and medical needs, emotional deprivation, and/or desertion. Neglect is sometimes...contact between a child and a biological relative is known as incest, although some therapists...and any trusted caregiver, including relatives by marriage. Girls are more likely than... Read more
Periwinkle
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine ...to distinguish lesser and greater periwinkle from a close relative called Madagascar periwinkle. The Latin name for this herb...vinpocetine may protect brain cells from damage caused by oxygen deprivation. The apparent effectiveness of vinpocetine, which is made... Read more
Mutiny
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...the American services, as elsewhere, mutiny is nowadays a relatively rare occurrence. Mutiny can be active or passive; conducted...parent society. In the American military, this sense of relative deprivation has most often occurred as the result of perceived or actual... Read more
Disenfranchized Persons
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...members of disenfranchised persons shared the fate of their relatives "in those cases where they are materially dependent on the...except for the mentally ill and those sentenced by a court to deprivation of rights. Nonetheless, "former people," or those with ties... Read more
Good Death, the
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying ...Glannon, author of a 1993 article in the journal Monist, the Deprivation of Goods Principle holds that death is bad to the extent that...process. Glannon and others argue that the "badness" of death is relative and quantitative — it depends on how much one has lost... Read more
heart block
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...the atria then, after a brief delay, in the ventricles. The relative timing of this sequence, as well as the sequence itself, are...cause of heart block is damage to the conducting fibres, by deprivation of blood supply picking out that part of the heart when there... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "relative deprivation"

relative deprivation
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology relative deprivation See DEPRIVATION ; REFERENCE GROUP . Read more
deprivation
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...clothing, and shelter. The term relative deprivation refers to deprivations experienced...deprivation. Consequently, relative deprivation not only involves comparison...crucial to the degree of relative deprivation. The concept of relative... Read more
Stouffer, Samuel A.
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...His research there culminated in his most famous work, The American Soldier (1949), which made major contributions to social psychology and survey methodology, as well as developing the concept of relative deprivation . See also REFERENCE GROUP . Read more
reference group
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...Merton and Kitt point out that relative deprivation is a special case of comparative...In a much-cited study of Relative Deprivation and Social Justice (1966...including people's feelings of relative deprivation) are a function of their... Read more
criminology, realist
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...agencies of social control (such as the police and courts), the offender, the victim, and the public. They consider the choices facing individuals in restricting circumstances, and draw strongly upon theories of relative deprivation and subcultures . Read more
status crystallization
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...Homans ) to take such notions as status crystallization and status integration, combine them with the concepts of relative deprivation and reference groups , and in this way show their relevance for broader debates about social justice. Subsequently... Read more
need
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...intervention. It is central to discussions of poverty and deprivation and to welfare—a term referring to the meeting of human...too, over whether needs should be defined in absolute or relative terms, should be assessed objectively or subjectively, and... Read more
egalitarianism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...goods could be so arranged that their various levels of distribution balanced out, thus minimizing any sense of relative deprivation . In practice, however, this has involved the allocation of unacceptable levels of power to the state, the agency... Read more
military and militarism, sociological studies of
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...military intervention in government in particular societies (relative strength of armed forces, political stalemate, administrative...theoretical and substantive importance (such as the experience of relative deprivation investigated by Stouffer and his colleagues). By far the... Read more
millenarianism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...more general level, the numerous theories of millennial movements as a whole include interpretations in terms of relative deprivation ; those which see such movements as being rooted in the strains associated with rapid social change ; and some... Read more

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Risk of metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes in androgen deprivation therapy.(Clinical report)
Magazine article from: Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...strong family history (e.g., with two or more first-degree relatives) of prostate cancer are considered high risk (Bratt, 2002...with localized disease; those men can expect a five-year relative survival rate of almost 100% (Surveillance, Epidemiology...Results [SEER] Program, 2007). Hormone therapy or androgen ... Read more
Towards a psychological frame for explicating student unrest in Nigerian universities.
Magazine article from: College Student Journal; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...theories--Cognitive Dissonance, Relative Deprivation and Campus Ecology that have...Dissonance, the theory of Relative Deprivation and the theory of Campus...of Cognitive Dissonance, Relative Deprivation and Campus Ecology, particularly... Read more
Food and Food Poverty: Perspectives on Distribution.
Magazine article from: Social Research; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...associated with human poverty and deprivation, at least symbolically if...important cause of calorie deprivation among the poor? Is income...columns one and two is shown relative to the 1961/63 average consumption...where the figures are shown relative to the 1990/92 consumption...poor countries). ... Read more
Socioeconomic conditions and property crime: a comprehensive review and test of the professional literature.
Magazine article from: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...between an individual's relative poverty (that is, income...criminal activity. According to relative-deprivation theory, individuals who...lack of control over their relative economic or social position...they perceive unjustified deprivation relative to a reference group in... Read more
Mixed neighborhoods better for low-income health.(Health And Long Term Care)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Community Action; 10/25/2004; 140 words ; ...more affluent and better educated individuals, according to a Statistic Canada report, Neighbourhood Inequality, Relative Deprivation and Self-perceived Health Status. In neighbourhoods with a large proportion of affluent families and well-educated... Read more
Deaton.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: NBER Reporter; 3/22/2000; 139 words ; ...relationship between inequality and mortality. He postulates that individual health is affected negatively by relative deprivation within a reference group, defined as the total weight of incomes of group members who are better off than the... Read more
Working towards ill health? An investigation of psychological well-being in unemployed and employed low-wage earners.
Magazine article from: International Journal of Employment Studies; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...the financial deprivation associated with...restricted by relative and absolute...tests of Jahoda's deprivation and Fryer's agency...viewing Jahoda's deprivation theory and Fryer...compared the relative impact of financial...both financial deprivation and deprivation of time ... Read more
Relax Rx: helping minds unwind. (Altered States Float Center and MindGym) (company profile)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 10/24/1988; ; 700+ words ; ...minutes. Floating in one of Altered States' six sensory deprivation tanks, or mellowing out in one of its high-tech mind-massage...in the giant quiet box for a half-hour of blissful deprivation. The darkness was absolute. So was the silence. Even...head. It's better than a two-martini lunch. Sensory ... Read more
"Everyone's been good to me, especially the dogs": foster-children and young paupers in nineteenth-century Southern Iceland.
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 12/22/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...Laslett published on parental deprivation in the English past, to mention...example.(2) Judging by the relative scarcity of publications on...or their parents (or other relatives) paying for their maintenance...shall attempt to determine the relative number of foster-children... Read more
MADAGASCAR STRUGGLES WITH DEMOGRAPHIC BOOM.
Newspaper article from: Market Africa Mid-East; 4/1/2003; 610 words ; ...rich in natural resources but plagued with widespread human deprivation. Almost half of the work force is unemployed and about 70...Household expenditure on durable goods should rise 3 to 5 percent relative to levels in 2002. However, it is important to bear in mind... Read more