There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.
In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.
Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.
Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and transparency and openness to others becomes essential to the new way of conducting business, empathic sensibility has room to breathe and thrive. It is no longer so constrained by hierarchies, boundaries of exclusion, and a concept of human nature that places acquisitiveness, self-interest, and utility at the center of the human experience. "
There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only eyes in all heads, to be looked out of.
Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.