Assistant teacher program/Respect economy

Respect economy

Respect economy

Activity:	lecture, group work
Group size:	unlimited
Preparation:	handouts
Instructors:	1
Duration:	?

Respect is not a scarce resource, the respect economy overemphasizes a certain scarcity that applies to respect in order to allow the participants to derive an advanced moral perspective towards respect.

Analyze reasons for respect

• towards people in your social environment.
• towards celebrities and other people known through the media.
• towards people who don't belong to either group.

What are possible secondary effects of respect?

Analyze how respect can be shifted when people join or leave a group or place.

• Can respect behave as a scarce resource?
• Are there attitudes which amplify or diminish the effect?

• Should respect be a scarce resource?
• If respect can be a scarce resource sometimes what are desirable properties of that resource?
• What are personality traits, attitudes or standards that should demand respect?
• What are personality traits, attitudes or standards that actually gain your respect or that of others?
• Can raising standards shift respect and does that mean higher standards could be seen to entail an obligation?
• What obligation could that be?

See also

• Respect economy (Theory Design Lab)
• Lack of respect (Parent Education Course Writer's Guide, Wikibooks)

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