Some horses are able to crack the herd's stiff social hierarchy and win acceptance.
It uses innovation training to create a new elite within its typically conservative social hierarchy.
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The arbiters of the new social hierarchy have names like Klout, PeerIndex and Twitalyzer.
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And they're all too obvious a symbol of social hierarchy the up and down makes that very clear.
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Hence, it has nothing to do with social hierarchy or keeping people in their station in life.
Prom felt mostly like a job I had to do to maintain my position in the social hierarchy.
Respect is a hot-button issue, especially for people who feel threatened or not well-established in the social hierarchy.
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Their lives continue to be influenced by the ancient Hindu caste system, which assigns each person a place in the social hierarchy.
They are a "middle caste" in northern India's rigid social hierarchy -- above the lowest untouchables but below the Brahmins and feudal landowners.
The broader question: How was someone from the nethermost rungs of the social hierarchy able to subvert the natural order ... and win?
Aristocrats feared gin's corrosive effect on the social hierarchy: Might not a drunken millwright someday fancy himself equal to a drunken lord of the manor?
But, in the social hierarchy of school, this host of miseries was overlooked in favor of a much more contemptible indignity: I wanted to be a writer.
As their children are battling it out on the field of play, parents are engaged in a battle of their own, carefully developing a social hierarchy amongst themselves.
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The reality, however, is that New York's rats are highly stressed nocturnal creatures, besieged by traps, poison and sharp-shooters, struggling to stay on top of their own social hierarchy.
In the clique-filled world of secondary school there is a clear social hierarchy, and researchers at the University of Michigan believe they've found the formula that unlocks its secrets.
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According to the survey, the students at the top of the social hierarchy they were the most "powerful" and respected were also the most considerate and outgoing, and scored highest on measures of agreeableness and extroversion.
The Bombay (Mumbai) meeting is likely to see the anti-globalisation activists focusing on Hinduism's centuries-old social hierarchy, or the caste system, which relegates nearly one-sixth of India's one billion population to the status of low castes known as Dalits, or the oppressed.
In this climate, the social enterprise becomes less structured, less beholden to position and hierarchy.
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Other barriers to reporting included workload pressures, red tape and hierarchy, reporting procedures and lack of sensitivity and support from social services and colleagues.
Sister Mary Ann Walsh of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops concedes that the church's hierarchy is male-dominated, but said women do occupy important lay positions in Catholic social and relief organizations.
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