Toward an Anthropology of Respect

Finkelstein, Ellis

doi:10.3167/sa.2008.520305

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“…This varied use of the moral value of respect reflects Ellis Finkelstein's observation that respect lends itself to many different situations, such as respecting a law, the environment, a person, animal rights, and so on (2008: 104). In an interpersonal context, Finkelstein draws from Kantian humanism and social psychology to characterize respect as the social acceptance of another person independently of their status.…”

Section: Status and Conflict In Londonmentioning

confidence: 99%

A developmental perspective on social status: children's understanding of hierarchy in Nanjing and London

Kajanus

2023

Royal Anthropological Inst

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From an early age, children become attuned to processes of social power in their environment. Findings from cognitive sciences suggest that the ability to discern hierarchical relationships, as well as coercive and non‐coercive processes that give rise to them, rests on evolved cognitive capacities. Yet reasoning about social relations is always already a cultural process. Anthropological theory routinely deploys terms such as ‘power’ and ‘hierarchy’ to analyse diverse features of social organization, but little is known about the culturally grounded psychological processes that give rise to hierarchies at the interpersonal level. A comparison of children in London and Nanjing brings together ethnographic and experimental approaches to cut across the cognitive, social, and cultural dimensions of child development, and reveals how central moral frameworks mediating hierarchy and conflict – respect in London and yielding in Nanjing – lead to particular expectations about the behaviour of high‐status individuals. This article highlights the benefits of mixed methodology in providing insights into how children develop psychologically and culturally rooted understandings of social status and provides directions for anthropology to contribute to the multidisciplinary study of the social cognition of human hierarchies.

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Section: Status and Conflict In Londonmentioning

confidence: 99%

A developmental perspective on social status: children's understanding of hierarchy in Nanjing and London

Kajanus

2023

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…Social, cultural, and political economic contexts also influence local conceptions of respect and behavioral norms associated with respect (Finkelstein, 2008). In Latin America, ethnographic studies have highlighted the salience of respect for positive kin relations (Penglase, 2010; Reynolds, 2008).…”

Section: Anthropologies Of Love and Respectmentioning

confidence: 99%

“A marriage without fidelity is a house without a foundation”: Black Brazilian women's demands for respect in marriage

Medeiros

2023

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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Ethnographic studies of romantic love and companionate marriage in Latin America and the Caribbean focus on why and how intimate ideologies are changing, the effects of these changes for couples and communities, and the complexities surrounding the practical and symbolic meanings of money and love. Here, I discuss how in a community in which the romantic love and companionate marriage ideals seemed unattainable due to the prevalence of infidelity, Black women emphasized the locally salient value of respect in their discourses surrounding marriage. I explore how women's and men's competing views on respect represented shifts in women's agency, household authority, and the marital bargain. I argue that the perspectives of working‐class Black Brazilian women reveal how the value of respect is central to the dignity and self‐respect of minoritized and marginalized women and why, for these women, the disrespect of infidelity was the impetus for divorce.

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“…Although rules of manners provide good guidance as to how to show respect to persons, following them slavishly will not always lead to respectful behaviour (Finkelstein, ). For example, it is usually considered to be impolite to give unsolicited advice; but it is respectful of intimate partners and friends to give such advice to those who trust them when it is necessary to save them from harm or serious embarrassment.…”

Section: Respect and Mannersmentioning

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Respect for the Dignity of People: What Does This Principle Mean in Practice?

Allan

Davidson

2013

Australian Psychologist

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Researchers have found that disrespectful behaviour can have a notable psychological impact on victims and observers thereof. It is not surprising, therefore, that law and all the major psychology codes of ethics acknowledge the principle of respect for the dignity of persons. The practical implications of this principle, however, are not clear. In this article we argue, with reference to the philosophical roots of the principle, that there are rules of manners in all societies that describe how people should demonstrate respect for persons. Generally, the profession cannot require psychologists to adhere to the rules of manners, not even those that demonstrate respect for persons, but it can, and does, prescribe to psychologists how they should act while they practice as psychologists. We proceed to examine the principles and standards of the Australian Psychology Society's Code of Ethics (2007) that require psychologists to demonstrate respect for persons while acting as psychologists.

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Toward an Anthropology of Respect

Cited by 10 publications

References 24 publications

A developmental perspective on social status: children's understanding of hierarchy in Nanjing and London

A developmental perspective on social status: children's understanding of hierarchy in Nanjing and London

“A marriage without fidelity is a house without a foundation”: Black Brazilian women's demands for respect in marriage

Respect for the Dignity of People: What Does This Principle Mean in Practice?

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