Today's women and minorities have career options that pay better (average public school salary: $46,752), treat them better and are held in higher social esteem.

Land has both an economic function and a function in terms of personal and social esteem:

All this, however, in the search for social esteem and personal uniqueness.

Various bodies in Manufacturing Industry are working themselves into one of their regular lathers about the supposed low social esteem bestowed upon engineers and engineering.

He emphasizes that this was a time when the significance of the 'economic security and social esteem hitherto associated with membership' was declining.

The motivation could be hope for social esteem, benefits from being perceived as a cooperator or just the avoidance of informal sanctions.

Interpersonal status hierarchy When groups of people interact, some people are given more social esteem and influence than others.

Diamonds have no intrinsic value, just the totem value that comes from scarcity and social esteem.

In the eighteenth century the professions, which were to be the core of the nineteenth-century middle class, brought some social esteem but little economic power.

All of a sudden, the question is raised regarding "a legal right to a specific lifestyle, to social esteem, to a meaningful life" (Ford, 133).