Human Hierarchies: A General Theory

ISBN-13: 9781138510708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 406 str.

Melvyn L. Fein

Opis

Human beings are hierarchical animals. Always and everywhere, people have developed social ranking systems. These differ dramatically in how they are organized, but the underlying causal mechanisms that create and sustain them are the same

Spis treści

Introduction, 1. Hierarchy and Science, 2. A Hierarchical Animal, 3. The Mechanisms of Hierarchy, 4. A Profile of Relative Strengths, 5. Hierarchical Changes, 6. Historical Trends, 7. Bureaucracies and Professionalism, 8. The Middle-Class Ascendancy, 9. The Working and Lower Classes, 10. On Loss and Social Mobility, Epilogue: Age and Gender, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Melvyn L. Fein