Hierarchy vs Hierarchicalism - What's the difference?
hierarchy | hierarchicalism |
A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.
The process or policy of organising as a hierarchy.
* 2000 , Colin D. Standish, Organizational Structure and Apostasy (page 18)
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 2, author=Lawrence Downes, title=Desert Odyssey, work=New York Times
, passage=“Beneath that quick-smiling or watchful Catholicism lurks another far more elaborate hierarchicalism which in turn subdivides all supposed ‘Mexicans’ into myriads of local spiritualities whose half-secret survival through all the long torments of the Spanish conquest promises their own continuance in bright-colored globules of coherence irrelevant to, hence safe from, the scrutiny of American capitalists.” }}
As nouns the difference between hierarchy and hierarchicalism
is that hierarchy is a body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks while hierarchicalism is the process or policy of organising as a hierarchy.hierarchy
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Noun
(hierarchies)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy : at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}
hierarchicalism
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(-)- As we have explored the organizational development of the church, it has become evident that the organization that God wanted for His church was the antithesis of hierarchicalism .
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