Contextualizing the meaning of respect: the case of evangelicals in Brazil /Contextualización del significado del respeto: el caso de la comunidad evangélica de Brasil

Abstract

This article examines the meaning of respect for evangelicals in Brazil. We were particularly interested in the roles which the recognition of equality, achievements and needs would play in the respect experiences of members of this religious minority. With regard to the sources of respect our focus was on Brazilians as a superordinate ingroup and on five different outgroups. As expected, equality recognition emerged as the dominant principle governing intragroup respect. Intergroup respect, however, was governed primarily by the principle of need recognition, especially in relations with religious outgroups. The principles of achievement and equality recognition also played a role in intergroup respect, but only in relations with secular outgroups. Implications for religious groups’ struggles for respect in modern society are discussed.

The meaning of respect under varying context conditions

“…When society is not clearly distinguishable from the own group, the question about societal respect could become a question of ingroup respect. The special role of equality recognition observed for Catholics in Poland thus is compatible with other research suggesting that, within ingroup contexts, respect is mainly defined by equality recognition (Simon, Brause, & Galeão-Silva, 2016). Additionally, a history of occupations might have underlined the importance of equality.…”

What Makes People Feel Respected? Toward an Integrative Psychology of Social Worth

“…Huo and Binning (2008) suggested that people seek to be accorded status in interactions with authority figures, and inclusion in interactions with peers, but this hypothesis was not corroborated in later empirical investigations (Huo et al, 2010). Work in the social recognition framework by Simon and colleagues has mostly focused on demonstrating a supreme role of equality in intergroup respect experiences (e.g., Simon, Grabow, et al, 2015;Reininger et al, 2020), tending to neglect variations in the extent to which other forms of recognition result in feelings of respect (e.g., Simon, Grabow, et al, 2015;Simon et al, 2016;but see Schaefer et al, 2021). Lastly, some contextualized definitions of respect have been brought forward for different professional situations (e.g., leadership: Van Quaquebeke & Eckloff, 2010;nursing: Koskenniemi, 2012) or different relationships (between romantic partners or parent and child: Frei & Shaver, 2002).…”

What makes people feel respected? Toward an integrative psychology of social worth.

“…Huo and Binning (2008) suggested that people seek to be accorded status in interactions with authority figures, and inclusion in interactions with peers, but this hypothesis was not corroborated in later empirical investigations (Huo et al, 2010). Work in the social recognition framework by Simon et al’s has mostly focused on demonstrating a supreme role of equality in intergroup respect experiences (e.g., Reininger et al, 2020; Simon, Grabow, & Böhme, 2015), tending to neglect variations in the extent to which other forms of recognition result in feelings of respect (e.g., Simon et al, 2016; Simon, Grabow, & Böhme, 2015; but see Schaefer et al, 2021). Last, some contextualized definitions of respect have been brought forward for different professional situations (e.g., leadership: van Quaquebeke & Eckloff, 2010; nursing: Koskenniemi et al, 2015) or different relationships (between romantic partners or parent and child: Frei & Shaver, 2002).…”