How do you define and measure prestige? Is it important to you?

[Deleted member 4644]

How do you define and measure prestige? Is it money, power, education or all three? What are its most important elements? Does it matter to you a lot?

How prestigious are you? Are you much more or less prestigious than your parents?

 

[AbAbber2k]

Post Count... I'm not very Prestigious. 🙁











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Really? Power, mostly because it can be the sum of a number of attributes which either command respect or fear or both.

 

[Toonces]

according to Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, we're all striving for the respect of the community/prestige


<---- should be writing my Political Econ. paper 🙁

 

[Deleted member 4644]

haha.. not post count 😛

 

[notfred]

My website is the first result if you google my name, that should count for something.

 

[Dacalo]

In my limited experience, I think in order of importance:

1. Money
2. Power
3. Education

Money let's you in a exclusive group of people that networks you to power. Education could help you, but I think it's the least important unless you are in an academic industry.

 

[ntdz]

Originally posted by: Dacalo
In my limited experience, I think in order of importance:

1. Money
2. Power
3. Education

Money let's you in a exclusive group of people that networks you to power. Education could help you, but I think it's the least important unless you are in an academic industry.

I'd put Money and Power equally, if you have one you will have the other.

 

[Dissipate]

Originally posted by: Dacalo
In my limited experience, I think in order of importance:

1. Money
2. Power
3. Education

Money let's you in a exclusive group of people that networks you to power. Education could help you, but I think it's the least important unless you are in an academic industry.

Money could come from anywhere, including rich parents. That doesn't necessarily make you prestigious. The same thing with power.

However, education is often the beginning of acquiring prestige.

To me, if there is a claim of prestige I'm going to ask what that person did that was so great.

In other words, prestige = success. And education often leads to success and success often but not necessarily leads to power and money.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Here is an example I think...

Paris Hilton has a lot of money, but fairly little education and only limited power. Sure, she can get herself into any club in the world... but she can't make a phone call and get someone into Harvard or greese a major business deal.