hierarchical society

collocation in English

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hierarchical
adjective
uk
/ˌhaɪəˈrɑː.kɪ.kəl/us
/ˌhaɪˈrɑːr.kɪ.kəl/
arranged according to people's or things' level of importance, or relating to such ...
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society
noun
uk
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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One part of the common good condition is that a decenthierarchicalsocietymust honor human rights.
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He describes the challenges faced by democratic ideals such as equality in ahierarchicalsocietythat had changed little since colonial times.
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When ahierarchicalsocietysubordinates some class of its members, their subordinate status is imposed on them coercively.
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This can be explained by understanding patterns of behavior within a somewhathierarchicalsociety.
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Moreover, the ways in which women were absorbed into the kinship system occur red under conditions that for them were par ticularly limiting, suggesting a strictlyhierarchicalsociety.
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It is the bas s for the transformation of a quasi-feudal and strictlyhierarchicalsocietyto a better, more compassionate and tolerant one.
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We are living, not in a democratic society, but in ahierarchicalsocietyof many inequalities.
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One of the characteristics of ahierarchicalsocietysuch as this is that the higher one goes the more responsibility one has.
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It was ahierarchicalsociety, even though there was, perhaps, more social mobility than is generally realised today.
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Rather than being a product of ahierarchicalsociety, gold might have been meshed in the creation of it.
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Realizing one's social obligations and maintaining an orderly,hierarchicalsocietywere the highest duties that an individual and mankind (respectively) had to fulfill.
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With his elitism, he transformed the city into ahierarchicalsociety.
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The two main themes deal with trust and the independence of young people in a rigidlyhierarchicalsociety.
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In thishierarchicalsociety, fully trained poets belonged to the highest stratum; they were court officials but were thought to still possess ancient magical powers.
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While anarchy refers to the absence of ahierarchicalsociety-organizing "power principle", acracy refers to the absence of "coercion"; the condition of acracy is one of voluntary order.
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It was an expression of a complex culture, built by ahierarchicalsocietywhose leaders planned and organized the labor of many workers for such construction.
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Omega, used to imprison extreme offenders, has ahierarchicalsocietyof extreme brutality, where the only way to advance (and avoid dying) is to commit an endless series of crimes.
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Toryism supported ahierarchicalsocietywith a monarch who ruled by divine right.
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This mentality permeates our individual psyches in a cumulative form up to the present day-not merely as capitalism but as the vast history ofhierarchicalsocietyfrom its inception.
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