Roisin Murphy

When you're a kid, right, and you're surrounded by all these other kids, and let's say they don't have the same interests or the same goals or the same world view as you... It's difficult because a child doesn't know that there's another way. A child doesn't know that there's another place outside of the systems and hierarchies in school.

Irish Musician

Adam Grant

To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.

American Author

Annie Besant

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.

English Philosopher

Rachel Kushner

I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.

American Writer

Richard Linklater

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

American Director

Vivienne Westwood

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

English Designer

Gary Hamel

Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

American Businessman

C. Wright Mills

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

American Sociologist

Bill Gates

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

Julia Hartz

Humans want to know the hierarchy; it's important for there to be one leader.

American Businesswoman

Hierarchy suggests a power structure where someone is in control and others follow.

Power Dynamics

Think of hierarchy as a ladder, where each rung represents a level of importance.

Vertical Structure

Hierarchies can be informal, present in groups without official structure.

Not Always Official

In computing, hierarchy helps organize data so it's easier to navigate and understand.

Organizational Tool

Picture a computing hierarchy as a family tree chart, showing connections between data.

Structural Visualization

In religion, hierarchy often refers to the organization of people within the church.

Church Authority

Hierarchies in religious contexts can be about rank, but also spiritual authority.

Spiritual Rank

 The takers will give you four names, and they will all be more influential than them, because takers are great at kissing up and then kicking down. Givers are more likely to name people who are below them in a hierarchy, who don't have as much power, who can do them no good. And let's face it, you all know you can learn a lot about character

Are you a giver or a...

 To understand the sadness of the trees losing their leaves in the fall is to more fully understand the cycle of life that brings flowers in the spring. But wisdom and emotional intelligence seem pretty high on the hierarchy of needs. Does sadness have value on a more basic, tangible, maybe even evolutionary level?

A brief history of...

 Every one. Doesn't matter where you go. You'd think it would be otherwise, but it isn't. At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities. At the bottom are the arts. Everywhere on earth. And in pretty much every system, too, there's a hierarchy within the arts.

Do schools kill...

 there's tremendous competition for mates the males are not fighting with each other they don't have dominance hierarchies that don't have territories set up like other animals would do in a similar situation I like to call them the ambassadors of the reptile world

If You're Scared of...

 the order within a Wolf Pack hierarchy is constantly reinforced by displays of dominance and Submission in a complex language of different forms of communication vocalizations such as growls barks yips and whines are equally as important as the non verbal body

Jim & Jamie Dutcher: The...

 the efforts of the group as killer whale pods are generally matriarchal the exhibit is strict dominance hierarchy ranked in order top to bottom with the adult females generally at the top of the pecking order often times followed by adolescents and

Killer whale society PIPE...

 high on testosterone, but really stress reactive? Probably not, right? You want the person who's powerful and assertive and dominant, but not very stress reactive, the person who's laid back. So we know that in primate hierarchies,

Your body language may...

 most cults share some basic characteristics. A typical cult requires a high level of commitment from its members and maintains a strict hierarchy, separating unsuspecting supporters and recruits from the inner workings.

Why do people join...

 isn't settled until even later in life. You see, clownfish all start out their lives as males, However, as they mature, they become female. They also spend their lives in small groups with a strict dominance hierarchy

Sex Determination: More...

 care team science has found that social hierarchy is developed in fox cups very early on and through play they develop vital skills for hunting and communication so it is important that they develop