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It's very real, and if you think that it isn't, ask yourself this: Would you rather make your next Facebook status say you're having a tough time getting out of bed because you hurt your back or you're having a tough time getting out of bed every morning because you're depressed?
In fact, a member of society is only truly dead when the extended family can agree upon and marshal the resources necessary to hold a funeral ceremony that is considered appropriate in terms of resources for the status of the deceased.
But the sacrifice of buffalo and the ritual display of wealth also exhibits the status of the deceased, and, by extension, the deceased's family.
Get ready to update your Twitter or Facebook status.
Cultural values that emphasize respect for older people contrast with the low status of the elderly in the U.S. Older Americans are at a big disadvantage in job applications.
There are several reasons for this low status of the elderly in the U.S. One is our Protestant work ethic which places high value on work, so older people who are no longer working aren't respected.
Well, what has changed in the status of the elderly today compared to their status in traditional societies?
Another big change for the worse in the status of the elderly is the breaking of social ties with age, because older people, their children, and their friends, all move and scatter independently of each other many times during their lives.
Yet another change for the worse in the status of the elderly is formal retirement from the workforce, carrying with it a loss of work friendships and a loss of the self-esteem associated with work.
He had just been released from his 27 years of incarceration, and was in a period of readjustment to his sudden global icon status.
Now, this game of Monopoly can be used as a metaphor for understanding society and its hierarchical structure, wherein some people have a lot of wealth and a lot of status, and a lot of people don't; they have a lot less wealth and a lot less status and a lot less access to valued resources.
"Just say no" is what conservatives around the world say to any challenge to the sexual status quo.
You had a specific part to play according to your sex, your age, your social status, and you only had to play your part to be valued and loved by the whole community.
Generally we're talking about meat, shelter, status, protection, things like that.
But because of the country's sheer scale and status as a rising superpower, the needs of its population have created an opportunity for truly compelling impact.
Those people are always the threat to the status quo, to what is considered acceptable.
And we gave everyone a tough choice: you can lose your extra credit for participating in the study or accuse your peer, who will probably be expelled because of his academic probation status.
I'm calling on developers and disrupters of the status quo.
I disagree, and I think that it is equally a tool that humans use to enforce and encode our social and moral preferences and prejudices about status and power, which is why plutocrats like me have always needed to find persuasive stories to tell everyone else about why our relative positions are morally righteous and good for everyone: like, we are indispensable, the job creators, and you are not; like, tax cuts for us create growth, but investments in you will balloon our debt and bankrupt our great country; that we matter; that you don't.
Challenging the status quo of how women are seen and talked about in our own circles.
And the other remarkable thing is it's, I think, the highest status of car ownership.
Or they might not have a conference call with 12 people to talk about a status when they could just do a quick email and get it done with.
Women have so much status that we have not been hearing, that they have not been hearing, and we needed to tell them that they need to know where their rights are and how to take them by themselves, because they can do it and we can't.
My mom applied for refugee status.
Despite her poverty, despite her social status as a divorcée in an ultra-conservative society, and despite the opposition of her parents to her going back to school, Fayza knew that her only way to control her life was through education.
Their parenting always sought to reconcile the tension between having my siblings and I understand the realities of the world, while ensuring that we never accepted the status quo as inevitable.
But now that the affair is exposed, they, too, get to claim more, and they no longer have to uphold the status quo that may not have been working for them that well, either.
That guest worker program ties a person's legal status to his or her employer, and denies that worker the right to organize.
It gave me status.
When we spoke to activists, they told us that empowerment begins with ensuring proper gender equality, where the women's status is established in society.
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