Sentence examples for social honor from inspiring English sources

Attendance has always been a badge of some social honor, like Renaissance Weekend in the Clinton years.

Xunzi claims that all human beings experience certain desires primarily desires for bodily satisfaction and comfort and for social honor and position and that we cannot reduce or eliminate these desires.

The parents of sacrificial victims were expected to surrender their children willingly and were encouraged by the Inca to consider the selection of their offspring for capacocha as a great social honor as well as being an act of pious devotion ([ 32]: 112; [ 37]; [ 25]: 81).

Their parents, their kinsmen, and local communities would have been encouraged by the Inca to believe that the payment of this type of "tribute" (consisting of their own children) was not only a religious obligation but more importantly, it was a great social "honor" as well [ 17].

She holds a number of academic and social honors, but she would rather talk about her cats.

So a person can be morally honorable while having low social status or socially honored while being morally disgraceful.

The celebrations that honor social milestones -- birthday parties, weddings, engagement parties, bar mitzvahs, christenings and anniversary celebrations -- suddenly ground to a halt in the New York area.

Sean Smith, 22, a senior from California, said the school's diminutive size, plus the social and academic honor code that allowed students to leave papers untouched on a table in the library for weeks at a time, were an advantage.

But "Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships" (Cambridge), by the anthropologist Alan Fiske and the psychologist Tage Rai, argues that these standard accounts often have it backward.

Spirit, by contrast, tracks social preeminence and honor.

It could also be the very basis of society, insofar as trust in fellow citizens to honor social contracts makes those contracts possible.