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Respect and Rights
Miller, Seymour M.; Savoie, Anthony J.
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Description for Respect and Rights
Paperback. Group respect and group self-respect are central issues today for class, gender, race and religious groups. This book explores changing public attitudes, the causes and consequences of group disrepect and proposes an agenda for action to expand group respect. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFSC; JFSJ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 276.
Despite great improvements in recent years, group respect is increasingly the key issue of class, race-ethnicity, and gender. It is a central promoter of today's inequalities. Disrespect appears in modes of speech, prejudice and discrimination, inattention, everyday treatment, violence, social distance, low regard for the honesty or intelligence of those treated as "others." An acute sense of respect deficit appears among women, African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, gays and lesbians, Muslims, people with disabilities—and those of low income or education. The causes—tradition, institutional practices, economic and psychological gain—and the economic, political, social, and psychological costs ... Read more
Despite great improvements in recent years, group respect is increasingly the key issue of class, race-ethnicity, and gender. It is a central promoter of today's inequalities. Disrespect appears in modes of speech, prejudice and discrimination, inattention, everyday treatment, violence, social distance, low regard for the honesty or intelligence of those treated as "others." An acute sense of respect deficit appears among women, African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, gays and lesbians, Muslims, people with disabilities—and those of low income or education. The causes—tradition, institutional practices, economic and psychological gain—and the economic, political, social, and psychological costs ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742517295
SKU
V9780742517295
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About Miller, Seymour M.; Savoie, Anthony J.
S. M. Miller is research professor of sociology at Boston College and director, Project on Income and Poverty at the Commonwealth Institute. He has been president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Eastern Sociological Society, the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy of the International Sociological Association. Currently, he is on boards of ... Read more
Reviews for Respect and Rights
This book blessedly ends the psychologists' monopoly over the subject of respect. In clear prose, the authors show that if you want to understand respect, or just seek to get it, you need a lively sociological imagination. Their sociological take on the subject deserves respect (if I can use the word) and shines new light on American society and politics. ... Read more