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Heightism is prejudice or discrimination against individuals based on height. In principle, it refers to discriminatory treatment against individuals whose height is not within the normal acceptable range of height in a population. Height discrimination is most common against shorter than average men and is generally accepted and ignored.〔() Judge, A. T. & Cable D. M. (2004) The Effect of Physical Height on Workplace Success and Income: Preliminary Test of a Theoretical Model, 'Journal of Applied Psychology', vol 89 9, No. 3, 428–441)〕〔() Persico, Nicola; Postlewaite, Andrew; and Silverman, Dan. "The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height." Journal of Political Economy, October 2004, Vol. 112, No. 5, pp. 1,019-53.〕 ==Origin of the term== The term ''heightism'' was coined by sociologist Saul Feldman in a paper titled "The presentation of shortness in everyday life—height and heightism in American society: Toward a sociology of stature", presented at the meeting of the American Sociological Association in 1971.〔Feldman, Saul. "The presentation of shortness in everyday life—height and heightism in American society: Toward a sociology of stature Paper". Presented at the meeting of the American Sociological Association. Chicago, Il. 1971.〕〔heightism, n." OED Online. June 2003. Oxford University Press. September 2006.〕 ''Heightism'' was included in the ''Second Barnhart Dictionary of New English'' (1971) and popularized by ''Time'' magazine in a 1971 article on Feldman's paper. The word is an example of ''Time'' magazine's habit of supplying new words through "unusual use of affixes", although ''Time'' itself objected to the term's inclusion in the 1991 ''Random Webster's College Dictionary'', citing it as an example of the dictionary "straining ... to avoid giving offense, except to good usage" and "() authority to scores of questionable usages, many of them tinged with politically correct views." Heightism is one of a proliferation of neologisms relating to prejudice and discrimination that are lexically patterned after ''sexism.'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Height discrimination」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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