6 sentences with “hierarchical”

Thus, Christianity potentially threatened the hierarchical nature of Roman society.

In the process, medieval politics evolved over time into a hierarchical, class-based structure in which kings, lords and priests ruled over the vast majority of the population: the peasants.

That said, there is no doubt that things had changed significantly in the course of the seventeenth century: governments were larger, better organised and more explicitly hierarchical in their organisation.

The feudal lords themselves presided over a rigidly hierarchical social and political system in which one's vocation was largely determined by birth, and the vocation of the nobility was clearly defined by the ownership of land and the waging of war.

This identification between authority and power exists in hierarchical organisations, in which the distinction between those who decide, those who transmit decisions and those who execute them is very marked. However, power and authority do not always coincide.

As structured forms of thought, authoritarian ideologies are not all the same, they differ from each other. Some deny the equality of men and imagine a hierarchical and conservative society, and often construct an enemy to fight against, usually in the role of a scapegoat. This enemy can be a race, a nationality or simply an ideology or way of thinking.