social hierarchy

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The country's next national census, scheduled for 2027, will - for the first time in nearly a century - count every caste, a social hierarchy that has long outlived kingdoms, empires and ideologies.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

It becomes “a tool to insert yourself on the social hierarchy and compare yourself to other people, trying to perform for other people, to get the attention of other people.”

From MarketWatch • Nov. 5, 2025

“That social hierarchy can be applied to gender, sexual preference, nationality, your ethnicity, your religion, class or race,” DuVernay says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2024

Season 1 of "Gen V" unrolls similarly, with that previously cited incident upending the social hierarchy and thrusting Marie to the top of the campus heap.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2023

After slavery, she continues, color persisted as the most obvious and so the most important criterion for establishing a social hierarchy in black society.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson