That's how the Scots treated golf for hundreds of years, before the Brits and the Americans stigmatized the game through its association with status and wealth.
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And just as in real life, purchasing an expensive virtual good can send signals of status, wealth and power within virtual worlds and social networks.
But then, pre-med was a decision made for me, by well-meaning parents who thought that it was the best way for me to apply my 35 ACT and 4.0 GPA and achieve wealth and status.
The shiny trend was probably born of tribes people attaching gold and, eventually, coins to their clothing to illustrate their wealth and status.
Players have the ability to earn, accumulate and grow virtual wealth and use this wealth to improve their social status within the game world.
According to Malveaux, African Americans spend for the same reasons other Americans do, buying into mass media and our cultural images that associate status and satisfaction with material wealth.
Many have made money in China's emerging capitalist economy and are status-conscious and keen to enjoy their wealth.
Snob--one component of a Russian media entity that also includes a website, a social network and live events, all open only to paid members--is not, as you might guess, a celebration of wealth and status but a rather serious and highbrow forum for ideas and culture.
Now, with his wealth and celebrity status, he wanted to mobilise the rich to help end world poverty.
The wealth and social status of people with rare surnames in 1800 is strongly correlated with that of their descendants today.
Wealth and high status may even themselves confer a longer life span.
There is probably no society in the history of mankind (with the possible exception of Cambodia and maybe ancient Sparta on small scales) that has been subject to more massive attempts at utopian experiments in social engineering: mass starvations, forced abortion and infanticide policies, ideological 180-degree mid-air gainers on the status of wealth creation, massive persecution of its most promising cultural and political revitalization movements, stop-start monetary policy.
China comes from an Imperial, agrarian society, where power and social status is based on familial wealth.
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The big prize in China is a luxury goods market that has exploded, with new wealth seeking style and status.
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Mr Merton noted that lots of people miss out on credit or other socially-approved prizes such as wealth, power and status.
People generally want wealth, power and status and they want to get it in the easiest possible way but it can mean different things to different people.
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One of the things that excites economists like Oswald is the ability to compare data on wealth, education and marital status with the results of happiness surveys.
The "rags-to-riches" catch-phrase notwithstanding, when you examine Alger's novellas, it's clear that the heroes like Ragged Dick and Tattered Tom were more concerned about social status and self-respect than about amassing great wealth.
He concludes that happiness bears almost no relation to wealth, professional standing or marital status, and is 80% inherited.
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The survey's planners designed a 90-minute collection of several hundred questions, put face-to-face, on health, wealth, housing, employment and family status.
"Elevated wealth status seems to make you want even more, and that increased want leads you to bend the rules or break the rules to serve your self-interest, " says Paul Piff, the lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate in psychology at the university.
Upon completion of the initiative, the Government of Iraq will have a wealth of new data about the status of groundwater in the country, and will be able to move quickly to address water shortages in worst affected areas.
Significant issues between the countries remain unresolved, however, including status of their citizens, division of national debt, disputed border areas and sharing of oil wealth.
Despite the split in July, unresolved issues remain between the two, including status of their citizens, division of national debt, disputed border areas and sharing of oil wealth.
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