social hierarchy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialandhierarchy
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social
adjective
uk/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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hierarchy
noun[C]
uk/ˈhaɪə.rɑː.ki/us/ˈhaɪ.rɑːr.ki/
a system in which people or things are arranged according to ...
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(Definition ofsocialandhierarchyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Legalistic proportionality, political consensus, personal betrayal, cultural balkanization, andsocialhierarchyare underlying themes of both books.
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To restoresocialhierarchy, a noble elite was therefore an urgent necessity.
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Lower down thesocialhierarchy, customary forms of divorce and remarriage were widely accepted.
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They recognize that thesocialhierarchyis expressed in linguistic variation.
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However, it is important not to map polite society in any mechanical way against thesocialhierarchy.
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Thissocialhierarchyis based on seniority, clinical clout, and professional and personal respect.
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A family or individual in possession of plentiful cowries thus occupied an enviable position in the localsocialhierarchy, to whom status and power accrued.
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Another possibility is that players higher up a relevantsocialhierarchymay get first turn.
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Together with the move when marrying, this means that three or four moves were due to advancement within thesocialhierarchythat characterized rural life.
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The colonial predicament unleashed changes that led to a rethinking of identities within the indigenoussocialhierarchy.
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This theory rested upon an assumedsocialhierarchy.
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Furthermore, investment of this kind suggests that thesocialhierarchywas not so securely established that it could dispense with these prestations.
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Most households were sharecroppers at the same level in the village'ssocialhierarchyand lacking any appreciable internal socio-economic differentiation.
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From the assumed artistic hierarchy of the records emerges asocialhierarchyachieved through distinction from the mainstream.
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The similarities extend beyond shared assumptions concerning the pervasiveness ofsocialhierarchyand the will to dominate in archaic times.
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The power dynamics ofsocialhierarchyare brilliantly displayed here.
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Proudly he unfolded his world of the physical sciences with itssocialhierarchy.
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A destabilizedsocialhierarchynot only raised traumatic questions about the nature of nobility, but also about that primus inter pares, the king himself.
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Such values are linked tosocialhierarchyand power.
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