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    All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity
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    All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity

    By Robert W. Fuller

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    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 inflicted it on someone of lower rank. That we are, all of us, both victims and perpetrators of rankism mandates a novel, multifaceted strategy for confronting it.
    Fuller isn't proposing that we do away with rank--without it organizations become dysfunctional. He's not advocating an egalitarian society where all are equal in rank but rather a "dignitarian" one where all are equal in dignity: a society in which rankholders are held accountable, rankism is shunned, and dignity is broadly protected.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBerrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
    Release dateJun 15, 2006
    ISBN9781609943127
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    • 3/5
      I like the general message of this book, and can't argue with it: "rankism" is the superset, or common factor maybe is better, to pretty much all other -ism's. And fighting rankism can't involve more rankism e.g. moral superiority.

      But I feel the book really gives short shrift to the question innateness (how innate is it?) or of how to deal with that (beyond, "we'll have to culturally suppress it.")

      It uses women's lib and the civil rights movement as examples, but opinion carries quite a bit on whether this movements have been as successful as is commonly thought, or as complete as commonly thought. He does take about backlash, and the proper/useful role of conservatism.... But it all seemed very high level and left me, somewhat, as if I'd read a rallying speech from a campaign stop...

      Which, to be fair, is perhaps the intention.

      Certainly have me the beginnings of a framework to think about a whole range of social issues/movements/etc. in a more or less unified way.

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