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hierarchy
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hierarchy (hī´rär´kē),
n 1. system of persons or things ranked one above the other.
n 2. in psychology and psychiatry, an organization of habits or concepts in which simpler components are combined to form increasingly complex integrations.

hierarchy
order of superiority; the arrangement of echelons of command.

court hierarchy
the way in which the courts in a country are arranged so that appeals can be carried from the lower to the higher courts.


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Disciplinary power is described by Foucault as a force that 'compares, differentiates, hierarchizes, homogenizes, excludes.
Observers in this model then learn to develop files, systems of marking and classifying, and the integrated accountancy of individual records in order to compare, differentiate, hierarchize, homogenize and exclude.
Derived from a patient and recurring naming of the ephemeral but valued objects that surround him, Brauntuch's work--a visual litany of the things he knows--demands attentiveness despite its disinclination to hierarchize subject matter.
 
 
 
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