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The literary works are of great importance in terms of reference to the historical events and reflection of the social, political and cultural statuses and discernment of the people's mindset and psychology and, besides the historical references that are envisioned as direct resources, they are enumerated amongst the indirect resources. Exactly where the historians have exercised reticence and/or secrecy in real historical reporting due to certain expediencies, the poets and writers have shouldered their duties and explicitly and/or ironically pointed to those events and incidents and this has doubled the importance of those literary works. The present study aims at the investigation of the perspectives of Mongol era's poets and writers about the huge incident of Mongols' attack and their domination over Iran so that the intellectual, cultural and social declines of the then Iranian society can be revealed on the one hand and the literary men and poets' reaction and attitudes towards this national catastrophe can be clarified on the other hand.

The dynamics of social status and prestige in Pliny, Juvenal and Martial / Annika B. Kuhn -- Status dissonance and status dissidents in the equestrian order / John Bodel -- Die Genese der Rangtitel in den ersten drei Jahrhunderten / Matthäus Heil -- Titres officiels, titres officieux / Ségolène Demougin -- Status and social hierarchies : The case of Pompeii / Henrik Mouritsen -- The Album of Herculaneum : Problems of status and identity / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill -- Fischteiche und Fischesser : Aufstieg und Niedergang eines Luxusguts / Werner Tietz -- Grabmonumente in Rom und im Rheinland : Reflex von sozialem Status und Prestige? / Werner Eck -- Die Darstellung des kaiserlichen Status und seines Prestiges / Martin Zimmermann -- Prestige und Statussymbolik als machtpolitische Ressourcen im Prinzipat des Claudius / Annika B. Kuhn -- Civic mirrors : Honorific inscriptions and the politics of prestige / Onno van Nijf -- Membership of the boule and the inscriptions of Asia Minor : A mark of elevated social status? / Anna Heller -- Inscribing senatorial status and identity, A.D. 200-350 / Caillan Davenport -- Status and rank in the Theodosian Code / Boudewijn Sirks -- Servus dei und verwandte Formulierungen in lateinischen Inschriften / Ulrike Ehmig -- Bescheidenheit ist eine Zier : Der Gebrauch der Demutsformel doulos theou in den Kirchenbauinschriften der spätantiken Patriarchate Antiochia und Jerusalem / Rudolf Haensch

We explore emerging dynamics of social status and distinction in liquid consumption. The new logic of distinction is having the flexibility to embrace and adopt new identity positions, projects, and possibilities and the ability to attract attention. The importance of flexibility and attention as resources emerged from the social sciences literature in the domains of digital, access based, and urban consumption as being the most important for achieving distinction in the contemporary marketplace. We then conceptually reexamine conspicuous consumption and taste and show that status signaling now relies upon inconspicuousness, non-ownership including experiences, and authenticity based on knowledge and craftsmanship, all of which are difficult to emulate. Our contribution lies in integrating disparate literature on social status and consumption within one conceptual space. We also build upon the concept of liquid consumption by outlining exactly how liquidity affects status and distinction, an area which has not been explored to date.

In this article I analyse the EU's social status in world politics. I argue that recognition grants the EU both club and positional status. Drawing on existing literature on status in international relations, I conceptualize the diplomatic corps of various polities as the embodied recognition of their positional status in world politics. To indicate and measure the positional status of the EU, I applied social network analysis to data on the exchange of embassies from 1960 to 2010. This methodology allows for consistent longitudinal comparisons of standing between heterogeneous polities in world politics. The results indicate that the EU's rise in the status hierarchy has been meteoric since 1960. However, fear of status congestion and status dilution among countries has thwarted the EU's full inclusion into the various status clubs of nation-states. I show that due to its lack of full club status the EU struggles to convert its high positional status into influence.

Researchers on inequalities in representation debate about whether governments represent the preferences of the rich better than those of less affluent citizens. We argue that problems of high- and low-status citizens are treated differently already at the agenda-setting stage. If affluent and less affluent citizens have different priorities about which issues should be tackled by government, then these divergent group priorities explain why government favours high- over low-status citizens. Due to different levels of visibility, resources and social ties, governments pay more attention to what high-status citizens consider important in their legislative agenda and pay less attention to the issues of low-status citizens. We combined three types of data for our research design. First, we extracted the policy priorities (most important issues) for all status groups from Eurobarometer data between 2002 and 2016 for 10 European countries and matched this information with data on policy outcomes from the Comparative Agendas Project. We then strengthen our results using a focused comparison of three single country studies over longer time series. We show that a priority gap exists and has representational consequences. Our analysis has important implications for the understanding of the unequal representation of status groups as it sheds light on an important, yet so far unexplored, aspect of the political process. Since the misrepresentation of political agendas occurs at the very beginning of the policy-making process, the consequences are potentially even more severe than for the unequal treatment of preferences.