Describe for me what hierarchy is.?!


Question: Describe for me what hierarchy is.?
I have a set of questions, and they ask me to define hierarchy. Please help :D

Answers:

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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