Surveying the Types and Origins of the Relative Deprivation Of the Iranian Community before the Islamic Revolution

Relative deprivation is a theory that tries to explain revolutions from a psychological perspective. This theory is based on deprivationaggression indicating that when people are dissatisfied with their governments, they get angry with it and resort to aggressiveness. Why people become dissatisfied with their governments takes root from the differences between what they want and what they really have. If the gap between these two cases is deep, the result will be deprivation and aggression against the government. Relying on this theory, this research is trying to investigate deprivation, the gap between what people had and what they really desired, before the Islamic revolution. Reviewing the literature related to the active groups, the researcher will try to identify the values concurrent in the era of Pahlavi and how much people could enjoy them.