Sentence examples for Scale of prestige from inspiring English sources

But he wrote best, I think, about the gray world of blocked aspiration that his parents inhabited in the barely middle-­class town of Shillington, Pa., where his mother was an unpublished writer and his father a schoolteacher at a time when teachers were "well below machinists and full-fashioned knitters in the scale of prestige".

Sociodemographic factors included sex, maternal IQ, HOME scores, and SES (estimated by Daniel's scale of prestige of occupations in Australia).

In his rave review of the film there, Thomas Sotinel describes the job of the character played by George Clooney, who (for those who haven't yet seen the film), travels around and performs layoffs and firings for employers who prefer not to do it themselves: "It's less repugnant than being a torturer at Abu Ghraib, but yet very low in the scale of job prestige".

The Daniel Scale of Occupational Prestige (20) was used to rate the occupational status of the principal earner on a six-point scale (1 = high, 6 = low).

Most very tall buildings are at an inefficient scale, propelled skyward for reasons of prestige rather than efficiency.

They certainly offer the capacity for these things, if backed by scale and prestige and neoliberal values of efficiency and market niche domination: they offer the potential to look like disruptive innovation while consolidating the market interests of elite brands within higher education.

More specifically, she wants to change the perception, prestige, and pay scale of teachers, which is not an easy task in a post Waiting for "Superman" world.

Respondents rated their views of the social status of doctors in terms of prestige, social influence, power, and income on a 10-point scale (1 = "very low," 10 = "very high").

Sleeping in became a mark of prestige.

He had a lot of prestige.

America alone has that kind of prestige.