Today we’ll talk about what we have in abundance. On the agenda is the definition of protection. What is it, we will analyze today: the value and justification of patronage as a way of promoting a person.
Value
The explanatory dictionary does not indulge in this sense with diversity and offers only one meaning: "patronage in the device somewhere or assistance in career advancement."
It is clear that patronage is possible not only for the most zealous employee or relative, who, as passion, wants to work in the company of his uncle. Sometimes the favor of the powerful is required even when a school looms on the horizon.
Which school to choose: public or private? Of course, the second, but without connections there is no way to get there, we need protection. What it is? This is the approval of those who manage the institution. A benevolent attitude can be bought, but in this case it is not pure support, but rather a deal.
Then, if a person’s parents or relatives are powerful enough, then he falls into a “special” university, then into a “special” job, and his path is strewn with roses. Such a scenario is available if patronage (what it is - we find out) as a method of promoting someone does not fail.
We have devoted enough time to the value of the object of study, we turn to its analogues.
Synonyms
Since the concept is complex, there are not so many replacement words. Here they are:
- roof;
- protection;
- support;
- patronage;
- favor;
- Vasya Vasya;
- blat.
You can use phrases of this kind to replace the concept of “protection” (that this is already clear):
- administrative resource ;
- leverage.
We do not know how in Europe, but in Russia it’s impossible to budge without patronage. And this is especially felt in science. For example, even if a student is smart, but not interested in any of the professors, then let him not hope for a successful career.
What to do in order to get to Olympus, you need a guide, and if it is not there, your fate walks at the foot of the mountain, and it only observes the “gods” from afar. In this environment, one does not need to ask anyone: "And what about" protection "- what is it?" The term is familiar to everyone.
Sons of Stephen King and Nicolas Cage
Celebrities are not chosen by chance. On the one hand, there are offspring of one of the most famous and commercially successful writers of our time, and on the other hand, the original Hollywood actor. What unites them? Our topic today is “What does protection mean?” Children, one way or another, enjoy the influence of their father, although Joseph Hillstrom King has a pseudonym. He is better known as Joe Hill. By the way, the writer changed his name because he wanted to achieve literary fame on his own. Is it so? Did it work out? Unknown In any case, S. King is campaigning on his fans to buy his son’s books. Decide for yourself whether there is protection. Indeed, patronage may not be clumsy, but soft, but from this it does not lose its essence.
Cage is the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola. And he, like Joe Hill, did not want evil tongues to say that the director was pushing a relative. But still, he played one of his first roles in the movie “Fighting Fish”, which was put by his uncle. Cage has long been an independent unit of Hollywood, but whether King’s son will be able to get out of his father’s shadow is a big question.
Is protection justified as a method of promoting a person?
On the one hand, having or gaining a powerful patron is good, because it opens up certain social and material prospects, on the other hand, if a person has pride, his self-esteem suffers, and besides, no one is willing to borrow in front of someone. True, you can bargain with conscience somehow, but this is only a temporary measure. In addition, debts can always be required to be repaid in one form or another.
There is still a question about the talent being promoted: who is he - mediocrity or genius? Geniuses must be helped, and mediocrity will break through themselves. A capable person can be helped to open the road, but if he is just a relative who wants a hassle-free existence, then such a protection is fraught with the benefactor himself.