Autore	Pappas Nicholas J
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Algora Pub., c2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (237 p.)
Disciplina	320.01
Soggetto topico	Political science - Philosophy Communities - Philosophy Social classes Elite (Social sciences) Social conflict Democracy Representative government and representation
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-87586-761-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910465684403321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : New York University Press, , [2015]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (347 p.)
Disciplina	305.260973
Soggetto topico	Social conditions Social classes Political culture Identity (Psychology) Citizenship Aging - Social aspects Age - Political aspects Age groups SOCIAL SCIENCE - Minority Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE - Discrimination & Race Relations Political culture - United States - History Citizenship - United States - History Aging - Social aspects - United States - History Coming of age - Social aspects - United States - History Identity (Psychology) - United States - History Social classes - United States - History Age groups - United States - History Age - Political aspects - United States - History Age - Social aspects - United States - History
Soggetto genere / forma	History Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4798-0683-8 1-4798-4059-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Part I. Age in early America -- Part II. Age in the long nineteenth century -- Part III. Age in modern America.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910481042303321

Autore	Fuller Robert W (Robert Works), <1936->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	San Francisco, CA, : Berrett-Koehler, c2006
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (217 p.)
Disciplina	305.5
Collana	BK Currents (Hardcover)
Soggetto topico	Social classes Social values
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-29917-4 9786612299179 1-60509-300-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (258 p.)
Disciplina	305.5
Altri autori (Persone)	DurrenbergerE. Paul <1943->
Soggetto topico	Class consciousness Classism Labor unions Social classes Social stratification Working class
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4571-1694-4 1-60732-157-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; ONE. Introduction; WHY STUDY CLASS?; THE INVISIBILITY OF CLASS IN THE UNITED STATES; HOW CAN WE MAKE CLASS VISIBLE?; THE ROLE OF ETHNOGRAPHY; THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLASS; CLASS AND CONSCIOUSNESS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES CITED; TWO. Thinking Political Communities; INTRODUCTION; STRATIFICATION AS TEMPORAL, SPATIAL, AND COGNITIVE PROCESS; THE EASTERN STEPPE AND XIONGNU EMERGENCE; XIONGNU STYLES OF STRATIFICATION; EXPLAINING XIONGNU POLITICS; NEGOTIATING POLITICAL COMMUNITY; XIONGNU RULERS AND STEPPE BELIEF SYSTEMS MATERIAL SYMBOLS OF COMMONALITY AND DIVISION BENEFITS OF AN UNSTABLE ECONOMY; POLITICS, PASTORALISM, AND SOCIAL RE-SCALING; STATECRAFT AND SUSTAINABILITY; THE SPATIAL POLITICS OF MOBILITY; THE UNFOLDING OF A XIONGNU POLITICS OF THOUGHT; REFERENCES CITED; THREE. Dividing Land and Creating Class; INTRODUCTION; THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLASS IN ICELAND; WHAT THE HISTORICAL SOURCES DO NOT TELL US; LAND CLAIM AND DIVISION PATTERNS IN THE VIKING AGE; SETTLEMENT PATTERNS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A TENANT CLASS; DIVIDING LAND AND MAKING CLASS THE LIMITATIONS OF SETTLEMENT PATTERN ANALYSES AND THE STUDY OF CLASS REFERENCES CITED; FOUR. Fried's Evolutionary Model, Social Stratification, and the Nuosu in Southwest China; INTRODUCTION; THE TWO CASES: NINGLANG AND LEIBO IN XIAO LIANGSHAN; Ninglang: A Multiethnic Zone; Leibo: Nuosu-Han Zone of Contention; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; REFERENCES CITED; FIVE. Class and Consciousness in the "Antiglobal" South; INTRODUCTION: WORLDVIEW AND THE ANTICAPITALIST MOVEMENT; ENERGETICS AND "WEALTH CREATION": EXPOSING THE FALSE WORLDVIEW OF THE GLOBAL ELITE REAL WEALTH AND VIRTUAL WEALTH: A SOURCE OF CONCEPTUAL CONFUSION THE PHANTOM GROWTH OF VIRTUAL WEALTH; "CREATIVE DESTRUCTION": THE PRODUCTION OF REAL WEALTH; THE CLOSED-SYSTEM VIEW: DEPENDENCY THEORY, NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS, AND THE IMAGE OF LIMITED GOOD; EXPANDING PIES AND FIXED PIES: AN ETHNOLOGY OF SUSTAINABILITY AND MUTUAL SELF-RESTRAINT; CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AS A CLOSED SYSTEM; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; REFERENCES CITED; SIX. Crash, Collapse, and Catastrophe in Postindustrial North America; THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT-DISASTER SCENARIOS; THE DATA; THE CRASH; CATASTROPHE-THE 2012ERS COLLAPSE-PEAK OIL COLLAPSE-THE NWO; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; REFERENCES CITED; SEVEN. Class and Consciousness; INTRODUCTION; THEORY AND METHODS; THE COLONIAL PERIOD; FEDERALIST ERA; THE FRONTIER PERIOD; THE CIVIL WAR ERA; THE POPULIST ERA; DEPRESSION/NEW DEAL ERA; POST-WWII ERA; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES CITED; EIGHT. Immigrant Heterogeneity and Class Consciousness in New Rural US Destinations; INTRODUCTION: IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL CLASS; DRIVING WHILE BROWN: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS; CLUTTERED YARDS AND CLIPPED GOLF COURSES: CONSUMPTION AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS; DISCUSSION; NOTES REFERENCES CITED
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