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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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Here, the world no longer appears simply as the backdrop for human activity, still less as Nature, organized and hierarchized in advance, but as an eventful, changing cosmos.
Moreover, this genitocentrism seems to be predicated upon a modern notion of sexual difference in which physiological features are hierarchized (classed as either primary or secondary characteristics) and in which genital morphology often comes to stand in for sex.
Toni Morrison, for instance, cites the authorial uses of hierarchized black and white bodies, the "demonizing and reifying [of] the range of [skin] color on a palette," as the founding metaphor and formal convention defining canonical US literary narrative, (white) nationalist identity, and colonialist habits of reading (7).
 
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