5.
Caroline Sacks was experiencing what
is called “relative deprivation,” a term
coined by the sociologist Samuel
Stouffer during the Second World War.
Stouffer was commissioned by the U.S.
Army to examine the attitudes and
morale of American soldiers, and he
ended up studying half a million men and
women, looking at everything from how
soldiers viewed their commanding
officers to how black soldiers felt they
were being treated to how difficult
soldiers found it to serve in isolated
outposts.
But one set of questions Stouffer