social hierarchy
Who outranks whom
Social hierarchy is a ranking system within a group where some members hold more power, status, or privilege than others.
The term appears in discussions of animal behavior, workplace dynamics, and societal structures: Primates establish social hierarchies through dominance displays.
Human social hierarchies may be based on wealth, education, occupation, caste, or other markers of status.
Inherited social division
- classGrouping by shared traits
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- disparityMeasurable difference between things
- segregationForced separation by group
differentiation · socioeconomic · aristocracy · bourgeoisie · proletariat · elite · underclass · ghettoization
One's relative position
- esteemFavorable opinion of worth
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- reputationCollective opinion of someone
- distinctionNotable difference or honor
honor · eminence · renown · celebrity · fame · respectability · nobility · admiration
Superior influence over others
- authorityPower to enforce obedience
- controlAuthority to direct
- influencePower to affect others
- leadershipAbility to direct others
supremacy · hegemony · subjugation · coercion · command · tyranny · despotism · oppression
Pointed polyhedral solid
- tiersHorizontal arranged levels
- levelsHeights or ranked stages
- echelonsLevels within a hierarchy
- ladderPortable climbing frame
ranking · gradation · order · arrangement · top-down · chain of command · organizational · corporate
caste
Inherited social division
- classGrouping by shared traits
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- disparityMeasurable difference between things
segregation · differentiation · socioeconomic · aristocracy · bourgeoisie · proletariat · elite · underclass · ghettoization · mobility
status
One's relative position
- esteemFavorable opinion of worth
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- reputationCollective opinion of someone
distinction · honor · eminence · renown · celebrity · fame · respectability · nobility · admiration · clout
dominance
Superior influence over others
leadership · supremacy · hegemony · subjugation · coercion · command · tyranny · despotism · oppression · subordination
pyramid
Pointed polyhedral solid
ladder · ranking · gradation · order · arrangement · top-down · chain of command · organizational · corporate · feudal
- North African customstea ceremonies, wedding customs, tribal customs, desert life, nomadic life
- societyclass, citizen, culture, norms, class structure
- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
- East AsiaChina, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Korea
- social developmentfriendship, belonging, sharing, turn-taking, peer groups
- hierarchiestier, tiers, level, levels, rank
social hierarchyegalitarianism
Philosophy of universal equality
social equality · classless society · equality · egalitarian society · classlessness
social hierarchyegalitarianism
Philosophy of universal equality
anti-elitism · populism · democratic ideals · leveling · social justice
social, society, sociable, hierarchy, antisocial, socialize, unsocial, sociability, socializing