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	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> rankism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rankism is a term coined by physicist, educationalist and citizen diplomat Robert W. Fuller.
		Fuller claims that rankism also describes the abuse of the power inherent in superior rank, with the view that rank-based abuse underlies many other phenomena such as bullying, racism, sexism, and homophobia.
		The Dignitarian Movement asserts that their aim is to overcome rankism in the same way that the civil rights and women's movements target racism and sexism.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/rankism (587 words)

	First among isms - smh.com.au
		Rankism is the cancer underlying many of the seemingly disparate maladies that afflict the body politic.
		The term rankism is more inclusive, grouping disparate actions by their common underlying cause and affording us a fresh look at behaviours we now put up with, sometimes collude in and, on occasion, indulge in ourselves.
		The reason that rankism has outlasted these familiar forms of abuse and discrimination is that rank, when it has been earned, is a measure of excellence, and distinguishing degrees of excellence is vital to the success of any human enterprise.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/06/27/1056683892125.html (1971 words)

	Rankism -- The Mother Of All Isms
		But rankism is not just another ism, it's the mother of them all.
		In targeting rankism, it is vital to recognize that there is nothing wrong with rank per se, any more than there is anything wrong with race or with gender.
		Overcoming rankism -- in the family, the schools, health care and the workplace -- is democracy's next step.
	www.commondreams.org /views/100700-102.htm (882 words)

	A Dignitarian Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rankism is the root cause of indignity, injustice, and unfairness.
		Examples of interpersonal rankism are a boss harassing an employee, a customer demeaning a waiter, a coach bullying a player, a doctor disparaging a nurse, a teacher humiliating a student, a parent belittling a child.
		Institutional rankism is the rankism we encounter when we deal with bureaucracies, nonprofit organizations, schools, hospitals, churches, and governments.
	home.earthlink.net /~lloadamsks/adignitariansociety/index.html (1843 words)

	Breaking Rank: Rankism supplants racism for the 21st century
		Rankism is a doctor abusing a nurse, a boss harassing an employee, or a customer demeaning a server.
		Rankism is a pervasive equal opportunity employer that allows most of us to simultaneously be victims as well as perpetrators.
		What makes rankism unique is its ability to transform the victims of the aforementioned groups into "rankists," abusing others based on perceived power, position or social setting.
	www.commondreams.org /views05/0510-33.htm (737 words)

	Dignitarian Movement - P2P Foundation
		Therefore, attempts to overcome rankism are apt to arise within these separate institutions rather than "in the streets" in the form of an easily visible, unified social movement whose members share some trait.
		Rankism is both the illegitimate use of rank and the use of rank illegitimately acquired or held.
		Rankism of this kind usually acquires a name of its own - "racism", in this case - and is overcome by public demonstrations that defenders of the status quo perceive as a threat to the social order.
	www.p2pfoundation.net /index.php/Dignitarian_Movement (550 words)

	Dignity's Apostle: My Interview With Author Robert W. Fuller
		Rankism's victims are likely to turn into perpetrators as soon as they can get away with it - to even the score, so to speak.
		As rankism diminishes, we will be more content to serve in whatever position in the hierarchy best matches our talents and the energy we have for that role.
		We will overcome rankism not only because that's the right thing to do, but more fundamentally because dignitarian workplaces, schools, and societies are more productive and creative, more powerful and successful than are rankist workplaces, schools, and societies.
	agonist.org /node/33711/print (2533 words)

	More Than Money :: Journal, Ezine, Free Trial Subscriptions
		If we are to combat rankism, it is as important to have a name for it as it was to have a name for sexism.
		Rankism is found in all hierarchical institutions and in society at large.
		It is because rankism encompasses the other -isms that I say that whoever identifies rankism and sets out to overcome it is going to lead the world in the next century.
	www.morethanmoney.org /members/member_articles/mtm35_rankism.htm (2568 words)

	"Rank Prejudice" by Robert Knisely
		Rankism is everywhere, he claims, and makes almost everyone feel invisible and inconsequential at one time or another in his or her life, whether during the first days of junior high school, starting college or a new job, being unemployed, or even awaking one day to realize you're retired.
		And though "rankism" sounds hopelessly P.C.--the kind of problem we didn't know we had until some well-meaning Barnard peer counselor thought it up--it's hard to disagree that abusing one's authority is a bad thing.
		Rankism may turn out to be yesterday's problem; as more young Americans become entrepreneurs, smaller and flatter organizations will reduce the range of rankism.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2003/0304.knisely.html (873 words)

	Real Change
		He defines “rankism” as abuse, discrimination, or exploitation based on rank and abusive, discriminatory, or exploitative behavior towards people who have less power because of their lower rank in a particular hierarchy.
		Rankism gives society a term to use when they feel that the inequality of rank in social class makes one person feel like a “nobody.” The goal, he says, is for every person to be treated with dignity regardless of social standing.
		She pointed out that bullying and rankism is not something that just males do — females do it too, but in somewhat subtler ways.
	www.realchangenews.org /2006/2006_07_05/interview.html (1471 words)

	[10-24-97] Robert Works Fuller, Rankism on Trial-- The "N" Word of the 90's is "Nobody"
		The linchpin of their defense against the charges of sexual misconduct facing their client in his upcoming court-martial is that McKinney is a victim of rankism, not racism.
		In contrast to ranking, rankism involves a sleight-of-hand in which power legitimately acquired in one area is exercised in other, unrelated areas.
		Rankism includes the offenses of racism and sexism and far transcends them.
	www.pacificnews.org /jinn/stories/3.22/971024-rankism.html (719 words)

	Dem Bloggers :: A Dignitarian Manifesto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rankism is defined as abuse of the power inherent in rank.
		The dignity movement is for a dignitarian (not a faceless egalitarian) society and it is against rankism.
		The goal is to make rankism as defendable as racism has become, which is to say, not very.
	www.dembloggers.com /story/2006/6/18/114233/075 (684 words)

	Somebodies and Nobodies Reviews
		Rankism is rampant in nearly every area of our lives and in every institution - in the workplace, schools, HMOs, personal relationships, and even in international relations.
		All of these problems are rooted in rankism, and exist because individuals or groups have used their power in ways that insult the dignity of others.
		While Fuller observed rankism in action both at Oberlin and as a physics professor at Columbia University, he was only able to fully identify it when he was no longer affiliated with a university.
	www.nathanielturner.com /somebodiesandnobodies.htm (1351 words)

	The Blog \| Byron Williams: 'Rank' Discrimination Leaves me with a Bitter Aftertaste \| The Huffington Post
		Rankism determines how we treat someone based on their perceived rank in society--the lower the rank the higher the possibility for abuse.
		Rankism is why the one Ruth's Chris restaurant that admitted to having "men only" hat policy is willing to bend it for a local celebrity, who also happens to be African American.
		Therefore, rankism is as prevalent in blue states as it is in red ones.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /byron-williams/rank-discrimination-lea_b_15797.html (2119 words)

	The Paula Gordon Show
		He believes addressing rankism is both a strategy for social justice -- disallow all abuses of power based on a person’s rank -- and the basis for operationalizing an ethical system -- follow the Golden Rule.
		Rankism is the mother of all ‘isms,” Dr. Fuller declares, confident that the country in the world that first overcomes rankism will prevail.
		“Rankism” is crippling to the “Nobodies” who are denied respect or rights, Dr. Fuller believes, adding that it is also crippling to the “Somebodies,”because it distorts their character and their souls.
	www.paulagordon.com /shows/fuller (1019 words)

	Encountering Rankism \| Civilities
		The concept Rankism has been coined by Robert Fuller, a past Professor of Physics at Columbia and President of Oberlin College.
		No sooner is rank assigned than holders of higher rank can use their newfound power to aggrandise themselves at the expense of those of lower ranks.
		But it is a way to understand rankism, and it's certainly more important for architects of social software to keep in mind.
	civilities.net /Rankism (723 words)

	Rankism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rankism isn't in the dictionary, but it should be because it's as pervasive and as damaging as the familiar "isms".
		Rankism happens every day: a teacher humiliates a student, a boss harasses an employee, a cleric abuses a parishioner, a guard degrades a prisoner, one group of people discriminates against another.
		A dignitarian society is one that disallows rankism.
	www.kirk.shoop.name /default.aspx/KirkShoop/Rankism.html?diff=y (292 words)

	Breaking Ranks » Rankism
		Robert W. Fuller is the author of Somebodies & Nobodies, the book that identified the malady of rankism and All Rise, which describes a dignitarian society committed to overcoming it.
		Once you have a name for it, you see rankism at the heart of many infringements of human rights, far away or close to home.
		Rankism exists, always has and it’s time to educate all workers/management, male and/or female.
	www.breakingranks.net /weblog/rankism (1495 words)

	Soc235: Chapter 4
		Fuller believes that the social movements of the late 1960's and early 1970's,which sought to reduce racism and sexism, were manifestations of a more fundamental cause of discrimination: rank-based abuse (i.e., "ranksim").
		The indignity faced by victims of rankism festers; it builds to indignation and sometimes erupts in violence.
		Meritocracy is a myth in the presence of rankism.
	www.soc.iastate.edu /soc130Sec1/soc235ch04.html (915 words)

	Dignitarian Foundation - What Divides Americans
		As Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, once put it: "Dignity is not negotiable." Rankism is invariably an insult to the dignity of an individual or group.
		People acquiesce in rankism because they fear the consequences of resisting: demerit, demotion, ridicule and ostracism.
		Today's N-word is "nobody." The successes of affirmative action herald the day when the victims of indignity, injustice and inequity are as apt to be white as fl, male as female, or straight as gay.
	www.dignitarians.org /WhatDividesAmericans.html (1213 words)

	The Plan for 2010’s Innovation Fund Supports New Ideas
		Fuller maintains that rankism is not just another ism, but is in reality “the mother of them all,” the root cause of sexism, racism, ageism, and other forms of discrimination.
		“Rankism occurs when rank-holders use the power of their position to secure unwarranted advantages or benefits for themselves,” Fuller wrote in an August 3 commentary in Newsday.
		Rankism has always been with us, but, until recently, it was an unquestioned part of daily life.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/091903/rank.shtml (603 words)

	AlterNet: The Somebody Mystique and the Rise of the Uppity Nobody
		I think we're on the verge of a dignitarian movement to overcome rankism that's going to create passions analogous to those generated in the women's movement in the '60s.
		The next day it came out that the executives had awarded themselves huge bonuses and that their pensions were protected.] It was such a betrayal of trust, it was such rankism of the senior ranks looking out only for themselves and abusing their decision-making power to decide in favor of increasing their own salaries.
		It's still widely sanctioned in our society for the higher ranking to get rid of the lower ranking, for no reason other than the whim the king used to have when he chopped off your head, or the whim the white guy used to have when he didn't like the fl worker.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=15745 (2659 words)

	What Divides America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By analogy, rank-based abuse and exploitation can be called "rankism." Naming rankism, putting it in the spotlight, is half the battle.
		Recent front-page examples of rankism include corporate and philanthropic corruption, sexual abuse by clergy, school hazing, and abuse of elders.
		In time, we may see the emergence of a broad- based "dignitarian" movement dedicated to overcoming rankism in all its guises.
	www.meditation.com /OLD_WEBSITE/newsletter/articles/what_divides_america.htm (1240 words)

	Workforce Innovations
		Regardless of whether it occurs between groups or individuals, rankism is experienced first and foremost as an insult to dignity.
		Recent studies linking social class to mortality and morbidity suggest that the chronic rankism experienced by the poor is as harmful to health as smoking 3 1/2 packs of cigarettes a day.
		The dismantling of rankism and the adoption of dignitarian governance models for our civic and social institutions–models that make their leaders accountable to those they serve–begins with each one of us in our personal relationships with relatives, friends, co-workers, teachers, and physicians.
	www.novaworks.org /wi/2006/10/feature.html (723 words)

	OnCampus: Somebodies and Nobodies
		The campus is invited to a free talk by a former U.S. college president and author who is fighting against rankism – when someone abuses their rank and makes somebody feel like a nobody.
		Fuller describes rankism as the “mother of all ‘isms’ ” – ageism, sexism, racism, anti-Semitism.
		Rankism is rampant in nearly every area of our lives.
	www.ucalgary.ca /oncampus/weekly/march12-04/rankism.html (315 words)

	NSP - Book Info Page
		By analogy, rank-based discrimination might be called "rankism." Somebodies and Nobodies explains our reluctance to confront rankism, and argues that abuse based on power differences is no more justified than abuse based on color or gender differences.
		It shows where analyses based on identity fall short and, using dozens of examples to illustrate the argument, traces many forms of injustice and unfairness to rankism.
		It presents rankism as the last hurdle on the long road from aristocracy to a true meritocracy, brings into focus a dignitarian revolution that is already taking shape, and offers a preview of post-rankist society.
	www.newsociety.com /bookid/3847 (300 words)

	TP: Rankism
		Rankism, das ist, auf den Punkt gebracht, der Machtmissbrauch, den wir mit unserem Status betreiben.
		Rankism spielt sich in Freundschaften, im Arbeitsverhältnis, in der Beziehung zwischen Arzt und Patient, Klerikern und Gläubigen, Politikern und Wählern, Lehrern und Schülern und in der Kommunikation zwischen Kunden und Verkäufern ab.
		Ein fruchtbarer Boden für Rankism, denn ein Großteil der erfahrenen oder ausgeübten Erniedrigungen werden über Statussymbole transportiert.
	www.heise.de /tp/r4/artikel/19/19973/1.html (1469 words)

	Dignitarian Foundation - Building a Society
		A: Although racism and sexism target specific groups-primarily non-whites and females-we are all potential victims of rankism.
		You can be a nobody in one context-and as such vulnerable to rankism-but a somebody in another-and thus a potential perpetrator.
		So overcoming rankism is a universal and unifying goal that reduces the myriad injunctions of political correctness to just one: Protect everyone's dignity equally.
	www.dignitarians.org /buildingasociety.html (1714 words)

	Robert Fuller, Somebodies and Nobodies: Smash Rankism!
		Fuller is eloquent on the damage rank abuse (“rankism”) does, and on its ubiquitousness in contemporary America -- it is everywhere.
		Rankism is an indefensible abridgement of the dignity of nobodies, and a stain on the honor of somebodies.
		As I said, Fuller is ultimately a realist, not a correct-liner, and some of his most powerful passages may surprise you because they explore the limits of somebodyness and the appeal of nobodyness.
	www.radicalmiddle.com /x_rankism.htm (1530 words)

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