Critics of the relative deprivation approach have noted that:

A. it fails to explain why certain feelings of deprivation are transformed into social movements.
B. an increase in feelings of deprivation is always necessary before people act.
C. an individual's life is as good as he or she hoped or expected it would be.
D. it fails to explain the discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.


Answer: A

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