Literary notes about Status (AI summary)
The word status is remarkably versatile in literature, serving as a bridge between abstract concepts and concrete social realities. Philosophical discourse employs it to denote a condition or standing that, while not immediately observable, carries significant inferential weight, as seen in discussions of memory and cognition ([1], [2], [3]). In the realm of sociology and history, status frequently refers to the established social hierarchy and the formal recognition of one’s place within a community, whether that be ascribing rank to nations, castes, or genders ([4], [5], [6]). Legal and heraldic writings similarly use the term to articulate questions of citizenship, inheritance, and personal identity, underscoring its role in defining both personal and collective honor ([7], [8], [9]). Even narrative literature harnesses the concept to illuminate character relationships and social order, highlighting both the evolution and the preservation of societal distinctions ([10], [11], [12]).
- In this way the whole status of images as "copies" is bound up with the analysis of memory.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell - Perceptions, says Professor Dewey, are not per se cases of knowledge, but simply natural events with no more knowledge status than (say) a shower.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell - In this way its logical status differs from that of the theories which are proved by its means.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell - The individual's conception of himself, however, is based on his status in the social group or groups of which he is a member.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - A story of the evolution of the status of woman.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Moreover, the political status of the Negro in the South is closely connected with the question of Negro crime.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois - To understand the question of cadency it is necessary to revert to the status of a coat of arms in early periods.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies - His Majesty lost no time in issuing commands, in reply to the Memorial, that he should be deprived of his official status.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao - 165, where "the transition from status to contract" will be found to have taken place.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - The Katal Arayans, or sea Arayans, who are also called Katakkoti, are lower in status than the Vālans, and, like them, live along the coast.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston - “Quite so; but kindly tell me, count, what is to be my status or employment an board your ship?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - The little foreign vicar attained to a social status which almost satisfied his maddened pride.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
