Recognition in sociology is the public acknowledgment of a person's status or merits (achievements, virtues, service, etc.). [1]
In psychology, excessively seeking for recognition is regarded as one of the defining traits of a narcissistic personality disorder. [2]
Another example of recognition is when some person is accorded some special status, such as title or classification. [3]
According to Charles Taylor, recognition of one's identity is both a fundamental need and a right, and non- or misrecognition is a form of oppression. [4]
In the workplace, recognition has been suggested to increase employee engagement, continuous improvement behaviour, trust in the organization, intention to stay, and satisfaction with management. [5] [6] [7] Others, like Alfie Kohn in Punished by Rewards, point out the dangers of using praise to show recognition, since it may induce compliance in the short-term, but negatively impact quality in the workplace long-term. [8]
Recognition justice is a theory of social justice that emphasizes the recognition of human dignity and of difference between subaltern groups and the dominant society. [9] [10] Social philosophers Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser point to a 21st-century shift in theories of justice away from distributive justice (which emphasises the elimination of economic inequalities) toward recognition justice and the eliminating of humiliation and disrespect. [9] The shift toward recognition justice is associated with the rise of identity politics. [11]
The political implications of recognition justice are more ambiguous than distributive justice, because recognition is not a resource than can be redistributed, but is rather a phenomenological experience of people and groups. [9] [12]{{
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