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Respect in a world of inequality / Richard Sennett.
LIBRA HV40 .S5157 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sennett, Richard, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare.
- Welfare recipients--Psychology.
- Welfare recipients.
- Respect.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 288 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [2003]
- Summary:
- Distinguished sociologist Sennett explores the need for respect--and the consequences of disrespect--in a highly competitive and interdependent society. He looks at three factors that undermine mutual respect: unequal ability, adult dependency, and degrading forms of compassion.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Scarcity of Respect 1
- 1 Memories of Cabrini 5
- 2 What Respect Means 49
- Part 2 An Inquest on Respect 61
- 3 Unequal Talent 65
- 4 The Shame of Dependence 101
- 5 Compassion Which Wounds 127
- Part 3 An Argument About Welfare 151
- 6 Bureaucratic Respect 155
- 7 Liberated Welfare 179
- Part 4 Character and Social Structure 205
- 8 The Mutual in Mutual Respect 209
- 9 A Character Turned Outward 227
- 10 The Politics of Respect 247.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393051269
- OCLC:
- 50447793
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