Sentences with phrase «through social prestige»

In addition, there are in nearly every congregation employers who have alcoholics in their businesses or plants, workers who know of untreated alcoholics in their unions, professional people with alcoholics among their clients or patients, public schoolteachers and opinion molders who through social prestige, political leadership, or involvement in the mass media help to create new images of public problems.

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We are learning about matrifocal cultures in which descent may be through the woman's family, in which the mother - child relationship is the important social unit and women have great prestige and sometimes political power.

This commercial strategy, geared toward adolescents of all ages, resembles the Democratic party's political manipulation of black Americans, targeting that audience through its insecurities about heritage, social prestige, and empowerment.