According to one poll after another, most Americans believe that college admissions should be based on merit, rather than wealth or lineage.
-JENNIFER PATERSON & CLARISSA DICKSON WRIGHT, Two Fat Ladies: Gastronomic Adventures There was by all available early signs nothing sinister at work in this accident, just that mundane blend of bad luck and error from which neither fame nor wealth nor lineage nor youth nor beauty can protect any one of us.
In practice names do not merely identify a person but also imply much, much more — genetic lineage, wealth, social acceptability.
Galba was the son of the consul Gaius Sulpicius Galba and Mummia Achaica, and in addition to great wealth and ancient lineage he enjoyed the favour of the emperors Augustus and Tiberius.
The maximal elaboration of this rite occurred in northwestern California in what have been called world-renewal ceremonies; these combined first-salmon rituals, first-fruits observances, and dances in which lineage wealth was displayed.
These hierarchies can be broken down into age, sex, ordinal position, kinship relationships (within families), and caste, lineage, wealth, occupations, and relationship to ruling power (within the community).
29 1 Such were the fortunes of Galba, a man surpassed by few Romans in lineage and wealth, and both in wealth and lineage the foremost of his time.
Before photography it was the main way of preserving someone's image beyond their lifetime – and the preserve of the rich and well-connected, a way of announcing wealth, status and ancestral lineage.
Between 1900 and 1907, Sargent averaged 17 monumental portraits a year, primarily of British aristocrats and arrivistes eager to promote their lineage or wealth; even after officially retiring from portraiture in 1907, he turned out some 20 more as he was continually prevailed upon by friends and prominent people, including Woodrow Wilson and John D. Rockefeller.
The absence of a thorough capitalist revolution and the unbroken lineage of wealth thus make England an unrepresentative case in the study of inequality.
