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  2. Occupational prestige - Wikipedia

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    The term prestige itself refers to the admiration and respect that a particular occupation holds in a society. Occupational prestige is prestige independent of particular individuals who occupy a job. Sociologists have identified prestige rankings for more than 700 occupations based on results from a series of national surveys.

  3. List of government space agencies - Wikipedia

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    The objectives include national prestige, exploitation of remote sensing information, communications, education, and economic development. These agencies tend to be civil in nature (vs military) and serve to advance the benefits of exploitation and/or exploration of space.

  4. Reputation - Wikipedia

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    The reputation or prestige of a social entity (a person, a social group, an organization, or a place) is an opinion about that entity – typically developed as a result of social evaluation on a set of criteria, such as behavior or performance. [1] Reputation is a ubiquitous, spontaneous, and highly efficient mechanism of social control. [2]

  5. Prestige (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In sociolinguistics, prestige is the level of regard normally accorded a specific language or dialect within a speech community, relative to other languages or dialects.. Prestige varieties are language or dialect families which are generally considered by a society to be the most "correct" or otherwise sup

  6. Big Three (colleges) - Wikipedia

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    That year Nathaniel Burt described the social prestige of the Big Three: It is, above all, the national social prestige of the Big Three which is competition with the purely local social prestige of the University [of Pennsylvania]. Upper-class boys from all over the country, including Philadelphia, go to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

  7. List of prestige dialects - Wikipedia

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    Tagalog - The Manila dialect is the prestige dialect among many native speakers due to the city's economic importance and the dialect's implication of wealth and high social status. This dialect is the basis of Filipino, the standardised official and national language of the Philippines. The Bulacan dialect is sometimes held as a higher ...

  8. National Survey Finds Women Choose Price Over Prestige When ...

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    National Survey Finds Women Choose Price Over Prestige When Considering College Survey Also Finds Personal Achievement Number One Reason Women Seek Degree PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Women ...

  9. Étoile Civique - Wikipedia

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    This distinction has four levels : bronze, silver, gold and silver-gilt. [citation needed] The medal contains the following: « Honorer les vertus civiques – Servir le prestige national » (To honor the civic virtues – Serving national prestige).