Remarkably then, the simple fact that merit and prestige are granted and cannot be imposed in antagonistic equals ensures that tactful modesty when building up and advertising one's own merit becomes compulsory, a "declarative" restraint all the more indicated considering the unavoidable entanglement of individual and collective merit in a realm of egalitarian synergy.
His position gave him insights to sibling rivalries, power relations, and the unfairness of certain cultural rules, particularly the automatic granting of prestige and wealth to the people who did not work for and often abused their power.
Although at first membership in the academy was not confined to scholars and included court favourites, jugglers, and musicians, by the time of the Ming dynasty (1368 1644) admittance to the body had become an honour bestowing great prestige and was granted only to the outstanding recipients of the jinshi degree, the highest level of the examination system.
Poehlman, who had just published his menopause study, seemed an ideal candidate to bring both prestige and grant money to the institution.
Scientists working in similar areas are generally in competition for publications, prestige, external grant funding, and institutional positions.
The academic profession is being reshaped according to a two tier model – a shrinking core of relatively secure permanent staff gradually being withdrawn from teaching to focus on the prestige (and grant money) brought by research, and a growing periphery of workers on short term or hourly-paid contracts who do the job of teaching students.
In granting authors a public forum in which to communicate, periodicals such as the Analytical helped to define authorship they encouraged the professionalization of writing and granted prestige to writers and journalists.
I agree with writer and artist Alistair Gentry: such excessive art jargon seems only to "grant power and prestige to a minority of privileged insiders while trying to withhold access by the rest of us".
So most people take it for granted that this prestige is good for business.
Their professional and technical character, and the dedication and effectiveness demonstrated for several years, have indeed granted them great prestige and credibility.
