When the mayor ordered a salary increase for the city's police officers, there was a sudden loss of morale among the city's firefighters. The firefighters' sudden dissatisfaction best illustrates the

Answer:Relative deprivation

Explanation:Relative deprivation is a situation where one feels like they don't have sufficient resources to maintain a standard of life and material possessions as does people in the same field and people experiencing it may start to feel that these has become accepted norms within their group.

Simple put, relative deprivation is when someone feels like they are worse off than the same groups they associate with, firefighters associate with police officers due to the type of work that they do and how critical and dangerous it is but if police officers are getting a raise and fire fighters do not get this raise it is likely that they will feel worse off and neglected especially when they compare themselves to police officers.