They used to enjoy a great deal of social prestige.
The desire for money, power or social prestige, and even to do good, all undoubtedly played their part.
As a young man in 1928, her father had been advised to marry for social prestige.
The reason for this transition is mostly one of social prestige.
Economic reward, political power and social prestige all flow from the structure of classes.
The elite enjoy great social prestige, but its members are also resented.
The spoken standard has come to be seen as a mark of good education and social prestige.
These adults didn't come to my classes because they wanted college credits or social prestige.
But it's the distance between the peasant and the banker that marks the social prestige.
"I have a feeling he did it more for social prestige than sympathy for the cause."