'They stand you in a corner; you are not to speak': nurses tell of abusive...

Contemporary Nurse;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......has been understood in terms of 'horizontal violence' (Duffy 1995; Dunn 2003; Reeves 2000) or 'oppressed group' behaviour (Roberts 1983). These...oppressed group behaviour' or 'horizontal violence', our research depicts bullies...

Horizontal violence.(Soapbox)

24x7;  May 1, 2008 ;     668 words ......prevalent that there is a name for it: horizontal violence. Try doing a Google search and you...we do it? According to Duffy, (1) horizontal violence is hostile and aggressive behavior...nonphysical inter-group conflict, horizontal violence is characterized by obvious and...

Workplace Incivility - Part I: Anger, Harassment, and Horizontal Violence

AANA Journal;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......discussed in part two of this article. Horizontal Violence Personality clashes, backstabbing...occur in every organization, but horizontal violence, or lateral hostility, has always...to as "nursing eating its young," horizontal violence is defined as harmful attitudes...

UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM; New facts and hot stats from the social sciences

The Washington Post;  January 23, 1994 ;     657 words ......to break out of a subordinate position," Smith said. The oppressed group grows increasingly resentful of its current label, which...usage, the new name inevitably falls into disfavor with the oppressed group, which fuels the search for another new name. When does...

Personal & financial health: lateral violence and Bullying in the...

Vermont Nurse Connection;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......impact on retention of quality staff. Horizontal violence and bullying should never be considered...Michel, Welton, & Nemeth, 2007), horizontal violence (Dunn, 2003; Farrell, 1997; Hastie...communication that is associated with horizontal violence and bullying. Cox described ...

Human rights: Gays seeking fairness

Charleston Gazette;  May 19, 2004 ;     199 words ...THE ROAD to social justice isn't easy. Each oppressed group must go through a long, painful effort to win equal citizenship. American blacks were freed from slavery, then spent a century...

IS SOCIETY BETTER TODAY THAN IN MAY 1954?

The Boston Globe;  May 23, 2004 ;     179 words ......unconstitutional. Unfortunately our ethos, ingrained through centuries of bigotry, has resulted in another empty promise for this oppressed group. White flight and with all deliberate speed have effectively foreclosed Brown in ways the US Supreme Court never could have...

We're (nearly) all victims now, claims think-tank.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  October 10, 2006 ;     197 words ......equality before the law, a report claimed yesterday. A study has calculated that 73% of the British population fits into an 'oppressed group' enjoying special protection, including gay people, disabled people, women and ethnic minorities. The report, We're (Nearly...

DAYS LIKE THESE: 2 July 1970

The Independent - London;  July 2, 2002 ;     186 words ......has been a Gay-In [the first New York Gay Pride march to commemorate the Stonewall riots of the previous year]. The last oppressed group has had its first say. (Group, not Minority. Women, after all, are a majority, and so on a world scale are blacks. Nor is...

Protest must take a Broader view.(Features)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  December 17, 2002 ;     265 words ...THE boycotting of big sporting events to make a political point or show support to an oppressed group is nothing new. It has reared its head again, with a sizeable group of backbench MPs saying they think England's cricketers should...

Afghan Hazaras look to polls, Iran; Parliamentary elections in September...

The Christian Science Monitor;  August 24, 2005 ;     700+ words ......the Taliban regime, it was the Hazaras of Bamiyan who may have cheered the loudest. As the homeland of Afghanistan's most oppressed group - Hazaras are Shiite Muslims in a Sunni majority nation - Bamiyan is a province that stood to benefit the most from a modern...

A qualitative study of the interplay between privilege and oppression....

Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......heterosexual) may work in combination with an individual's oppressed group statuses (e.g., being African American, a woman, or lesbian...a member of the middle or upper socioeconomic class) and oppressed group statuses (e.g., being a woman, a person of color, or lesbian...

gray

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      217 words ......age. ∎  (of a person) having gray hair. ∎  informal relating to old people, esp. when seen as an oppressed group. ∎  (of the weather) cloudy and dull; without sun. ∎  (of a person's face) pale, as through tiredness...

When Affirmative Action Was White; by Ira Katznelson

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The;  October 31, 2005 ;     285 words ......as a form of corrective justice in which law and private decisions are used to compensate members of a disadvantaged or oppressed group resulting from discrimination and unequal treatment in the past. But in his new book, When Affirmative Action Was White...

When Affirmative Action Was White

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education;  October 1, 2005 ;     284 words ......as a form of corrective justice in which law and private decisions are used to compensate members of a disadvantaged or oppressed group resulting from discrimination and unequal treatment in the past. But in his new book, When Affirmative Action Was White...