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Above and Below: Toward a Social Geometry of Header
Author(s) -
Gilmore David D.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1996.98.1.02a00060
Subject(s) - praise , header , hierarchy , ecological succession , base (topology) , social hierarchy , geometry , aesthetics , sociology , mathematics , history , law , social psychology , psychology , philosophy , statistics , genealogy , political science , mathematical analysis , ecology , biology
For modem common sense, hierarchy is a ladder of command in which the lower rungs are encompassed in the higher ones in regular succession. It is significant that we say that something is “high” or “superior”‐or conversely “base” or “inferior”‐without considering why what we most praise (goodness, strength, and so on) must be located high.