All rise : somebodies, nobodies, and the politics of dignity / / Robert W. Fuller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910957562303321
• Autore: Fuller Robert W (Robert Works), <1936-2025.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: San Francisco, CA, : Berrett-Koehler, c2006
• ISBN: 1-282-29917-4; 9786612299179; 1-60509-300-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Collana: BK Currents (Hardcover)
• Disciplina: 305.5
• Soggetti: Social classes; Social values
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-192) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; INTRODUCTION: What Is Rankism?; A Once and Future Nobody; The Abuse of Rank; Recognizing Rankism; Power Matters; The Dignitarian Perspective; Organization of this Book; CHAPTER 1: What's at Stake; Seeing Rankism Everywhere; Lethal Consequences; A Way Out?; CHAPTER 2: Dignity and Recognition; Dignity: A Universal Human Right; Indignity and Malrecognition; What Would a Dignity Movement Look Like?; Stages of the Movement; A Dignitarian Business Model; CHAPTER 3: Models of Dignity; We Are Model Builders; Models Are Everywhere; Models Evolve; Models Are Commonplace; Modeling Our Uses of PowerAn Example from Higher Education: A Template for Remodeling Institutions; CHAPTER 4: Dignity in the Workplace; Ten Ways to Combat Rankism in the Workplace; When the Boss Is a Bully; Academia and Civil Service; An Example from the World of Dance; CHAPTER 5: Dignity in Education; Kids Are People, Too; Learning with Dignity; Antibullying Projects; One-Upmanship and Elitism in Academia; Educating a Population of Model Builders; Demystifying Enlightenment-Jefferson Redux; CHAPTER 6: Rankism Can Be Harmful to Your Health; The Evolving Doctor-Patient Relationship; Rankism Among Health ProfessionalsThe Health Benefits of Recognition; Dignity: A Centerpiece of Health Care; CHAPTER 7: The Social Contract in a Dignitarian Society; Institutional Rankism and a ; Permanent Underclass; The Myth of Meritocracy; Models of "Democratic Capitalism"; CHAPTER 8: The Politics of Dignity; Is Rankism Human Nature?; The DNA of Democracy: Watchdog Processes; Navigating the Ship of State; A Dignitarian Model of Politics; CHAPTER 9: A Culture of Dignity; Fundamentalism and the Dignitarian Perspective; Ideology and the Dignitarian Perspective; Identity in a Dignitarian Culture: A Self Model for the Twenty-First CenturyThe Self: A Home for Identities; Survival Tips for Dignitarians; A Foreseeable Challenge; CHAPTER 10: Globalizing Dignity; The "Evolutionary Blues"; A World War in My Sandbox; A Dignitarian Alternative to War; What About Bad Guys?; Malrecognition and Counterterrorism; Handling "Domestic Violence" in the Global Village; CHAPTER 11: Religion in a Dignitarian World; Religion: Dignifier of Humankind; Religion and Science; Religion and Values; Religion and the Self; The Eye of God; CHAPTER 12: The Stealth Revolution; A Cautionary NoteThe Long-Range View; Democracy's Next Step; AFTERWORD: All Rise for Dignity; Getting Started; Notes; Resources; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: In his groundbreaking book Somebodies and Nobodies, Robert Fuller identified a form of domination that everyone has experienced but few dare to protest: rankism, abuse of the power inherent in rank to exploit and humiliate someone of lower rank. It plays a role in just about every form of social oppressionÑracism, sexism, homophobia, and religious intolerance all have a significant element of rankism in them.Most everyone has felt the sting of rankism--at the hands of a dictatorial boss, a condescending teacher, an arrogant doctor, or an imperious bureaucrat. But, equally, most everyone has in