negatively privileged
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]negatively privileged (comparative more negatively privileged, superlative most negatively privileged)
- (sociology) Lacking benefits or advantages in society.
- 2016, Jason Stanley, How Propaganda Works, page 233:
- Second, one might misunderstand Weber, as well as what follows, as an attempt at a complete explanation of the failures of negatively privileged groups to act politically in their own interests.
- 1993, Anthony Oberschall, Social Movements: Ideologies, Interests, and Identities, page 98:
- When a negatively privileged challenger faces a positively privileged target, exchange and persuasion are not likely, because the challenger has no positive inducements for the target. The initiative therefore rests with the challenger.