statuses quo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sir Julian Paunceforte will purchase a farm near Washington when he returns to this country. His chief crops will be protocols, moduses vivendi, statuses quo, etc.
ref: 1889 July 24, “From Points Far and Near. Telegraph, Cable and Mail News and Chat-by-the-Way. […]”, in The Kingston Daily Freeman, volume XVIII, number 235 (whole 5,434), Kingston, N.Y., page [3], column 3:
text: WIDOWS GET STATUSES QUO / Each Side in Protective League Feud Asks for One and Court Finds Easy Way to End Melee if He Can Only Dig Up Enough to Go Around
ref: 1926 November 10, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., part II, page 11, columns 2–3:
text: Of course, the usual function of courts is to protect statuses quo and to forestall change; […]
ref: 1970, Glendon Schubert, “Constitutional Policy”, in The Constitutional Polity (The Gaspar G. Bacon Lecture on the Constitution of the United States), Boston, Mass.: Boston University Press, →ISBN, pages 51–52:
text: Similarly, it takes no great historical or contemporary exposure to admit truth in the Marxist claim that religion can prop false consciences and unjust statuses quo.
ref: 1980, John Tully Carmody, Denise Lardner Carmody, “Social Justice and Liberation”, in Contemporary Catholic Theology: An Introduction, San Francisco, Calif.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 171:
text: People who confuse laws or established cultural outlooks or statuses quo concerning power with the will of God are always making themselves liable to mindless hatreds.
ref: 1999, Denise Lardner Carmody, “The People of God”, in An Ideal Church: A Meditation (1999 Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality), New York, N.Y.; Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, →ISBN, page 86:
text: Richardson (1987, p. 341) has written more generally of critical researchers’ efforts to study accounting as a “legitimating institution,” ranging from the existing social, political, and economic statuses quo (Cooper, 1980) to ideology (Tinker et al., 1982).
ref: 2003, Richard K. Fleischman, Vaughan S. Radcliffe, “Divergent Streams of Accounting History: A Review and Call for Confluence”, in Richard K. Fleischman, Vaughan S. Radcliffe, Paul A. Shoemaker, editors, Doing Accounting History: Contributions to the Development of Accounting Thought (Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought; 6), Kidlington, Oxon: JAI, Elsevier Science, →ISBN, pages 16–17:
text: A significant number of the texts and films considered, however, possibly for pedagogical reasons (the consciousness that old habits die hard and that even near-cataclysmic lessons may not always be thoroughly understood), warn against re-born statuses quo that in essential ways replicate the dogmas and problems that brought about their destruction in the first instance (John Wyndham, Ira Levin). […] King Kong, the ape from a geographically, chronologically and evolutionarily remote island (which includes the standard period marker of dinosaurs), not only stands as the atavistic progenitor of civilized humanity’s self-assuredness (‘look how far we have come’), but, paradoxically, also casts an unexpected light on the ways in which contemporary, scientific and urban statuses quo compare unfavourably with the untarnished wholesomeness of the wild (‘look how badly we have turned out’). […] It is worth pausing briefly, however, to consider three versions of the traditional vampire genre which, like plots of alien-invasion, puts forward the politicizing motif of the insurrection of erstwhile minorities against preexisting statuses quo.
ref: 2011, Maria Manuel Lisboa, The End of the World: Apocalypse and its Aftermath in Western Culture, Cambridge, Cambs.: Open Book Publishers, →ISBN, pages xxv (Prologue), 5–6 (Apocalypse Now and Again), and 33 (The World Gone M.A.D.):
text: This is not the place to rehearse all the ways in which Weberian, fiscal-military, and rational choice models fail to identify the sites where, the moments when, and the actors who successfully challenged patrimonial statuses quo in early modern Europe.
ref: 2011 July, Richard Lachmann, “American Patrimonialism: The Return of the Repressed”, in Julia Adams, Mounira M[aya] Charrad, editors, Patrimonial Power in the Modern World (The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; 636), Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 207:
text: For how different the structures of criticism deeming the protestations of Lowers unreasonable and unseemly, to the line of poor bastards snuffed out or criminally intimidated in the Godfathers’ preservation of their statuses quo?
ref: 2012, Candace Allen, “The Purpose of Music”, in Soul Music: The Pulse of Race and Music, London: Gibson Square, →ISBN, page 171:
text: It is possible these and many other inventions wouldn’t have been possible had their inventors confined or limited their thinking to their current statuses quo.
ref: 2016, Ziri Dafranchi, “Mind control”, in Life: A Mystery Solved, Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, Thomas Nelson & Zondervan, →ISBN, part 2 (The Journey), page 56:
text: In order to gain a comprehensive—holistic—understanding of the overall topic of research, and be able to develop a comprehensive, authentic, and sustainable approach or model for the 21ˢᵗ century, the statuses quo (including contemporary phenomena, trends, and developments) of a range of relevant domains have been critically reviewed. […] The main difference being that, contrary to analytical research, such as in Analytic Philosophy for instance, with the characteristic to probe into details and subject the data to a linguistic analysis as a way of creating knowledge, this study aimed to explore and come to terms with the statuses quo of a number of interrelated fields from a broad philosophical perspective and, in doing so, construct new knowledge; […] Such a phenomenon-driven exploratory approach to research was found eminently suited to review the statuses quo of the fields outlined in sections 1.5 (Chapter composition) and 2.1.2 (Thematic scope) as it naturally implied a broad—if not universal—and open-ended perspective; […] • Phenomenologically exploratory/open-minded towards the variety of phenomena of the thematic exploration of statuses quo, […]
ref: 2017, Dirk M. Steiner, Rethinking Education: Substantiating an Authentic and Sustainable, Post-Traditional Understanding of Education – A Philosophical Foundational Study, a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Auckland: Faculty of Culture & Society, pages 23, 36, 83–84, and 91:
glosses: plural of status quo