hough this may be a reason for it."
             In society today, it is the well-educated and professionally oriented upper middle class rather than the industrial working class that protest originates from. Postindustrialism arguments look at a broad set of social trends that have created looser social controls and new aspirations, causing protest to be viewed as an extrapolation of routine forms of political action and to be centred among adherents of the affluent 'new culture'.
             Postindustrialism verifies that there are a more expansive set of social and demographic changes, showing that traditional social controls have been slackened by social changes, and have fostered a new postmaterialist political culture. In some definitions, new social movements have been traced to the formulation of new collective identities in the context of the looser social controls of postindustrial societies. Inglehart (1990) shows the links of affluent backgrounds and generational change to postmaterialist values and protest.
             No matter how much money and power someone gathers, according to the deprivation theory, people feel either well off, or else deprived. Relative deprivation is viewed as a disadvantage coming from some specific comparison. Most people encounter some sort of discontent at various times, yet social movements eme
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