Colonization broke the power of the traditional rulers, but social status is still partially determined by a person's family roots. |
Wealth is a marker for social status, success, and respectability, just as poverty is stigmatising. |
We are all born to this Abba who takes us in regardless of our birthright, race, gender, language, or social status. |
Suggests that she only cares about social status, which is actually not as true as the average teen movie would have it. |
They are clearly aware that there is no other way to elevate their social status except for working terribly hard. |
Women, it can rightly be said, are custodians of the social status that we all enjoy in that they play a major part in our upbringing. |