Honor is another concept which partially overlaps with the meaning of “respect.”
Honor refers to an actor’s public reputation based on her public compliance with the code of a particular status group. Typically it entails norms mandating honesty, courage, calm
composure, or generosity (Berger, 1970; Lebow, 2008: chap. 2; Offer, 1995). The
experience of disrespect, by contrast, largely depends on the relationship between others’
behavior and one’s own subjective expectations, in particular to one’s own standards of
social worth and importance. Honor is based on the opinion of the broader social
environment; it is not a specific attitude which a particular actor is supposed to display in a
specific social encounter. In contrast, the experience of respect and disrespect intrinsically
depends on an actor’s subjective sense of her self-worth and -importance. Accordingly, in
some instances an actor may not feel disrespected even though somebody has tarnished her
honor (or reputation or prestige): for instance, if she is well aware of the fact that the honor
she publicly enjoyed was actually based on fraud or cover-up.
Wolf, R. (2011). Respect and disrespect in international politics: the significance of status recognition. International Theory, 3(1), 105-142.
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