Describe for me what hierarchy is.?!
Question: Describe for me what hierarchy is.?
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it's similar to rank. For example, the hierarchy in the military includes:
Officers (General, Major, etc.)
Officers - Non-commissioned (Chief Warrant Officer, etc)
Enlisted (corporal, private)
1. formally ranked group: an organization or group whose members are arranged in ranks, e.g. in ranks of power and seniority
2. formal grading of group: the categorization of members of a group according to importance
3. animal group organization: a form of social organization in animals in which different members of a group possess different levels of status, affecting their feeding and mating behavior
4. religion ranked group of clergy: a body of clergy organized into ranks
5. controlling group in formal organization: those who are in charge of a formally organized group, especially the priests in control of the Roman Catholic Church or a local part of it
6. biology subset within ranked system: a subset within a classification system, e.g. that for plants or animals
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Any ordering of phenomena with grades or classes ranked in sequence. Central place theory posits a hierarchy of settlements from regional capitals to hamlets. It is suggested that the same grades of settlement in the hierarchy are spaced evenly: villages are closer together than towns, which, in turn, are closer together than cities. Research suggests, however, that settlements occur in a continuum rather than a hierarchy. It seems unlikely that the presence of a hierarchy can be established, partly through the difficulty of ranking towns.
West's Encyclopedia of American Law:
Hierarchy
A group of people who form an ascending chain of power or authority.
Officers in a government, for example, form an escalating series of ranks or degrees of power, with each rank subject to the authority of the one on the next level above. In a majority of hierarchical arrangements, there are a larger number of people at the bottom than at the top.
Originally, the term was used to mean government by a body of priests. Currently, a hierarchy is used to denote any body of individuals arranged or classified according to capacity, authority, position, or rank.
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