| If marriage confers social status and respectability, adultery confers a stigma. |
| For the rest, entering the entertainment world means having a colourful lifestyle, fat monetary rewards and an enviable social status. |
| Women, it can rightly be said, are custodians of the social status that we all enjoy in that they play a major part in our upbringing. |
| Unlike the hereditary peerages of old, knighthoods are not bestowed according to birth or social status. |
| Colonization broke the power of the traditional rulers, but social status is still partially determined by a person's family roots. |
| The length of the wake varies according to the social rank and social status of the dead. |
