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Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank by [Robert W. Fuller]

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When discrimination is race-based, we call it racism; when it’s gender-based, we call it sexism. Somebodies and Nobodies introduces rank-based discrimination—or "rankism"—a form of injustice that everyone knows, but no one sees. It explains our reluctance to confront rankism, shows where analyses based on identity fall short and, using dozens of examples, traces many forms of injustice and unfairness to rankism.

". . . a wonderful and tremendously important book on the ‘ism’ that is far more encompassing than racism, sexism or ageism. ‘Rankism’ must be our prime target from now on in. Viva Fuller!"—Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Working

Robert Fuller served as president of Oberlin College and subsequently worked internationally as a "citizen diplomat." He lives in Berkeley, California.

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Robert Fuller has had three distinct careers. First, he taught physics at Columbia University in New York City. Second, he was president of Oberlin College which he led through a series of educational reforms, many of which drew national attention. A third career eventually came to be called "citizen diplomacy" which took him all over the world. Fuller is a correspondent for the Pacific News Service, and has written for numerous periodicals, with articles on rankism appearing most recently in the summer 2001 issue of Leader to Leader, a publication of The Peter Drucker Foundation. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN : B00280LPEK
Publisher : New Society Publishers (1 April 2004)
Language: : English
File size : 1598 KB
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Print length : 209 pages

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Holly_Berlin

A good read, helpful

Reviewed in Germany on 3 May 2013

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I wanted to see if I were just moaning and had a problem with people in higher positions. Being as I have a problem with a certain type of person but not with others I was unsure.
Having read the first half of this book I have found a really good explanation of the abuse of power including very clear examples.
This book is helpful to those looking for a description of various types of the abuse pf power. It has opened my eyes and has already given me a clear picture. I'm off to read the rest now :-)

Calvin D. Delle

Rankism explained

Reviewed in Canada on 18 April 2015

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Essential reading for anyone interested in classism, aka 'rankism'.

Joseph Phillips

Rankism is a better way to describe this than class

Reviewed in the United States on 19 December 2016

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I'm a therapist, social worker, writer. I think this will be an important book for me. I have always urged people to acknowledge but beware of political wedge issues, and think class, the root of oppression. Rankism is a better way to describe this than class. ALSO: Recent anthropology has debunked the myth of the so called Noble Savage. Traditionally, this would be good news for conservatives, I think the fact that primitive man was a savage is evidence for progress, and the progressive left. We do know however that man is still evolving from a competitive to cooperative species. Rankism is primitive, and we may not get beyond it soon, but you never know. We have made great progress in the last 200 years. I feel very comfortable with the idea that the primary human motivation, after achieving basic necessities, is recognition. We are social animals with a division of labor. We are not rugged individualists. Without the group we die. Being reassured by the group that we are pulling our weight is golden. I also like the idea that rankism is defensive. Anyway, I agree that the best practical, incremental strategy is to build a basic safety net for desperate human necessities. My Firewall Economics is a model that puts desperate necessities under the public sector and leaves the rest exposed to the private sector. FE and a movement to get past rankism should work well together. Take a look. [...]

R. Schwenk

A short book with lots of filler

Reviewed in the United States on 18 June 2013

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Robert W. Fuller has a point: All people should be treated with dignity. He names the failure to do so “rankism”, a neologism that he believes will, like the words “racism” and “sexism”, serve to stigmatize those who act abusively. He believes that rankism lies at the heart of all the other “isms” that oppress people; that the concept will help to unify all victims of oppression.

These ideas and the illuminating personal stories that he presents are worthy of about thirty pages. To fill out the book, he repeats himself, resulting in tedium for the reader. I lost count of the number of times that he reassured us that he does not oppose rank, merely the abuse of rank.

His analysis of oppression is not particularly deep, he tries too hard to force all problems into his paradigm, and his oversimplifications miss much of the structure that makes human suffering so prevalent and intractable.

In summary, nobody “needs” to buy this book. If you are interested in his ideas, first check out the web: breakingranks.net, dignitarians.org, for example.

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M D Brady

Great intro and discussion of rankism as umbrella for all -isms

Reviewed in the United States on 6 September 2018

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Not just a superficial repackaging of "discrimination," this book attempts to shift the discussion from superficial -isms to get a the root. The fundamental concept is the ranking of people - for whatever reason of age, gender, skin color, language, gender, partner preference, etc. - as a means to control. Social position in a company, a community, society, etc. becomes a tool of abusive control. Becoming aware of these rankist tendencies and stressing that there is no intrinsic rank can be made possible my stressing equal dignity. This book and others by the author gives practical suggestions.

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