Breaking Ranks

All Rise: Table of Contents

Introduction: What Is Rankism?
A Once and Future Nobody
Power Matters
Rank Itself Is Not Necessarily the Culprit
Organization of the Book

Chapter 1: Life and Liberty at Stake

Chapter 2: Dignity and Recognition
Dignity—A Universal Human Right
Indignity and Malrecognition
What Would a Dignity Movement Look Like?

Chapter 3: Models of Dignity
We Are Model Builders
Models Are Everywhere
Models Evolve
Modeling Our Uses of Power
A Template for Remodeling Institutions into Dignitarian Ones

Chapter 4: Dignity in the Workplace
Dignity Works
Ten Ways to Combat Rankism
When the Boss Is a Bully
Dignity Security, Not Job Security

Chapter 5: Learning with Dignity
Growing Up with Dignity
Why Billie Won’t Learn
Anti-Bullying Projects
One-upmanship and Elitism
Educating Model builders
Demystifying Enlightenment—Jefferson Redux

Chapter 6: Rankism Can Be Harmful to Your Health

Chapter 7: The Social Contract in a Dignitarian Society
Institutional Rankism and a Permanent Underclass
The Myth of Meritocracy
Models of Democratic Capitalism

Chapter 8: The Politics of Dignity
Is Rankism Human Nature?
The DNA of Democracy
A Model of Politics
Confronting Bureaucratic Rankism
Political Realignment: Common Ground for Progressives and
Conservatives

Chapter 9: A Culture of Dignity
Is Fundamentalism Anti-Dignitarian?
A Post-Fundamentalist World
Identity in a Dignitarian Culture—A Self Model for the 21st Century
The Self—A Home for Identities
Survival Tips for Dignitarians
A Foreseeable Challenge to Human Dignity

Chapter 10: Globalizing Dignity
The Evolutionary Blues
The World at War—In My Sandbox
Make Models, Not War—A Dignitarian Alternative to War
What About Bad Guys?
Malrecognition and Counterterrorism
“Domestic” Violence in Our Global Village

Chapter 11: Religion in a Dignitarian World
Religion—Dignifier of Humankind
Religion and Science
Religion and Values
Religion and the Self
Existential Dignity—Is There No One ‘Out There’ Who Cares?

Chapter 12: The Stealth Revolution