social hierarchy
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There was a rigid social hierarchy, and I didn’t fit in anywhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
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
Watching them spar vocally as Elphaba and Glinda is a joy, as they navigate their loathing-filled relationship and its impact on the social hierarchy at Shiz University.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2025
Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh, as described by the magazine in 1975, had "a dusty, crowded cow-dung splattered bazaar, small stucco houses and a social hierarchy as rigid and fierce as the summer heat".
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023
Capping the brainstem is the R-complex, the seat of aggression, ritual, territoriality and social hierarchy, which evolved hundreds of millions of years ago in our reptilian ancestors.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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