#socialstatus — Public Fediverse posts
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A quotation from Josh Billings
I hope i shall never hav so mutch reputashun, that i shant feel obliged tew be civil.
[I hope I shall never have so much reputation, that I shan’t feel obliged to be civil.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1870-03 (1870 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/80861/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #ego #pride #character #civility #fame #manners #politeness #renown #reputation #socialstatus #status
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #walden #class #clothing #nakedness #nudity #rank #socialstatus #society #status #statussymbol
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"The magazine’s politics were what passes for center-left in the United States. […] The operating orthodoxy was that police killings, CIA coups, black site torture, and institutional misogyny were aberrations, deviations from the American norm that would eventually be corrected when the arc of the moral universe, long as it is, finally got around to them."
by Ismail Ibrahim: https://bidoun.org/articles/house-arab
#beliefs #intellectuals #coloniality #elites #prestige #sociality #status #subcultures #socialStatus #liberals #sociology #NYC #NewYorker #TheNewYorker #Manhattan #racism #negrophobia #Bidoun #islamophobia #media #press #journalism #journalists
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🏆👏Bold stance by #judges
"courses often perceived as platforms for building connections among #elite gps, privileging those w high #socialstatus, financial means & influential networks. This practice reinforces #patronage systems, perpetuating #inequality in #Thai #society.. It's hoped tt #SupremeCourt won't take it lightly.. serves as a wake-up call for #Thailand's #institutions to prioritise #integrity, #transparency & #public #trust over personal & organisational gain"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2949032/bold-stance-by-judges -
Female competition stress linked to disordered eating across the lifespan https://www.psypost.org/female-competition-stress-linked-to-disordered-eating-across-the-lifespan/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #FemaleCompetitionStress #DisorderedEating #Lifespan #SocialStatus #MaleAttention
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« Stratification theories suggest that social background and cumulative advantage dominate cognitive ability as determinants of high occupational success. This leads us to hypothesize that among the relatively successful, average ability is concave in income and prestige. »
https://academic.oup.com/esr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/esr/jcac076/7008955?login=false #SocialStatus #Stratification
