Arrogance - Conceptual Framework
I. Introduction:
Have you ever met a person who behaves as if he is the greatest person on earth ever? Have you ever worked with a person who pretends that you are only an error-prone “mere mortal” whereas he is the most sublime creation of the divinity? Have you ever seen someone who never wants to move away from his own area of expertise & keeps perfecting those expertise secretly so that they can “perform” them in front of public?
If you have managed to experience at least one of the situations as mentioned above most likely you already had the opportunity of coming across an “Arrogant” person.
In the entire discussion to follow our focus would be on the word “Arrogant”.
This is important to discuss because generally arrogant people have a negative impact on the social fabric. We shall try to detect & understand arrogant people.
II. Conceptual Framework:
We start with the definition : “Making or implying unwarrantable claims to dignity, authority & knowledge; aggressively conceited or haughty, presumptuous, overbearing” ( The Oxford Concise Dictionary of English)
The word ‘unwarrantable’ is very important here. It means that their high ideas about themselves are not justifiable. So, basically we should call people arrogant when their claim to pride is false.
But often this world has given us extremely talented people or groups who in spite of their rightful claims to glory were considered arrogant. And that is why the second part of the definition is added.
So, as it gives a comprehensive picture of an arrogant person we would consider the definition above as our working definition as well.
Components of arrogant behaviour are mostly divided in 2 parts: attitude towards self & attitude towards others & this nicely came out during the interviews as described later.
Here one important point to note is that the word arrogant can be attributed to a person or a group. Interestingly, a particular member of the group may not be
Have you ever met a person who behaves as if he is the greatest person on earth ever? Have you ever worked with a person who pretends that you are only an error-prone “mere mortal” whereas he is the most sublime creation of the divinity? Have you ever seen someone who never wants to move away from his own area of expertise & keeps perfecting those expertise secretly so that they can “perform” them in front of public?
If you have managed to experience at least one of the situations as mentioned above most likely you already had the opportunity of coming across an “Arrogant” person.
In the entire discussion to follow our focus would be on the word “Arrogant”.
This is important to discuss because generally arrogant people have a negative impact on the social fabric. We shall try to detect & understand arrogant people.
II. Conceptual Framework:
We start with the definition : “Making or implying unwarrantable claims to dignity, authority & knowledge; aggressively conceited or haughty, presumptuous, overbearing” ( The Oxford Concise Dictionary of English)
The word ‘unwarrantable’ is very important here. It means that their high ideas about themselves are not justifiable. So, basically we should call people arrogant when their claim to pride is false.
But often this world has given us extremely talented people or groups who in spite of their rightful claims to glory were considered arrogant. And that is why the second part of the definition is added.
So, as it gives a comprehensive picture of an arrogant person we would consider the definition above as our working definition as well.
Components of arrogant behaviour are mostly divided in 2 parts: attitude towards self & attitude towards others & this nicely came out during the interviews as described later.
Here one important point to note is that the word arrogant can be attributed to a person or a group. Interestingly, a particular member of the group may not be