Where does prestige collide?

In sociology, prestige is the social honor or esteem attached to a position, classically an occupation, forming a dimension of stratification distinct from wealth or power. Ganzeboom and Treiman's work on internationally comparable occupational status builds scales that rank occupations by the esteem they command across societies, showing the ordering is strikingly stable. The referent is the esteem a role commands in a social hierarchy, measured by prestige and status scales, and it is unrelated to a magic trick's finale or a favored dialect except for the common root meaning of standing.[1]

Unit

The relative esteem accorded an occupation or social position

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Scored with occupational prestige and socioeconomic status scales from population surveys

In sociolinguistics, prestige is the social value attached to a language variety or feature: overt prestige accrues to the standard forms associated with higher-status speakers, while covert prestige can attach to nonstandard forms that signal group solidarity. Labov's The social stratification of English in New York City showed how a variable like postvocalic /r/ carries prestige that tracks speaker class and speech formality. The referent is the esteem speakers assign to a way of speaking, measured through stratified variation, distinct from a trick's finale and related to, but narrower than, the sociologist's general social prestige.[2]

Unit

The social value speakers assign to a variety or linguistic feature

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Inferred from stratified variation by class and style and from subjective-reaction tests