Understanding Of Hierarchy Research Articles

Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks

ABSTRACT In many contemporary democracies, digital networks on the far-right have established themselves as “alternatives” to liberal institutions. Within this nexus of parties, hyper-partisan news, and social media channels, opposition to climate change mitigation has emerged as a central cross-cutting issue. Despite the prominence of these trends, we still know relatively little about the hierarchies that govern these communicative ties. This study draws on the concept of cascading frame activation to trace communication flows between four distinct actor types within the German far right. We apply a mixed-methods approach across social media and websites over a period of 19 months. First, we conduct a time series analysis via a vector autoregression model, to assess potential causal relationships between the issue agendas of far-right actor types. Automated text analysis then inductively generates a lexicon exclusive to far-right posts about climate change, which we qualitatively assess and manually cluster into distinct frame categories. We conclude by tracing framing cascade sequences across the various actor types. Our results reveal significant associations between the issue agenda of far-right actors, especially among right-wing news sites (RNS) and hyperactive accounts. Within this network, the most dominant frames demarcate out-groups, such as the Green Party or climate activists. Notably, RNS play a central role in shaping this discourse, initiating 42% of the identified frames before they find wider dissemination. These findings expand our understanding of hierarchies and new communication pathways among partisan media, political parties, and their extended digital networks on the far right.

A developmental perspective on social status: children's understanding of hierarchy in Nanjing and London

AbstractFrom an early age, children become attuned to processes of social power in their environment. Findings from cognitive sciences suggest that the ability to discern hierarchical relationships, as well as coercive and non‐coercive processes that give rise to them, rests on evolved cognitive capacities. Yet reasoning about social relations is always already a cultural process. Anthropological theory routinely deploys terms such as ‘power’ and ‘hierarchy’ to analyse diverse features of social organization, but little is known about the culturally grounded psychological processes that give rise to hierarchies at the interpersonal level. A comparison of children in London and Nanjing brings together ethnographic and experimental approaches to cut across the cognitive, social, and cultural dimensions of child development, and reveals how central moral frameworks mediating hierarchy and conflict – respect in London and yielding in Nanjing – lead to particular expectations about the behaviour of high‐status individuals. This article highlights the benefits of mixed methodology in providing insights into how children develop psychologically and culturally rooted understandings of social status and provides directions for anthropology to contribute to the multidisciplinary study of the social cognition of human hierarchies.

Hierarchy and Teams

An understanding of hierarchy in teams is crucial to the understanding of social structures in collectives and societies. Hierarchy is a fundamental element of social life and a predictor of individual and collective behaviors. Status and power, two of the most studied hierarchical dimensions, have received considerable attention in the social science literature (Blader & Chen, 2012; Blau, 1964; Fiske, 2010; Kemper, 2006; Magee & Galinsky, 2008; Weber, 1964). However, existing research on hierarchy has focused largely on its individual- level effects (see Magee & Galinky, 2008 and Li, Chen, & Blader, 2016 for reviews). Only recently have researchers turned their attention to examining social hierarchy in the team context (Bendersky & Hayes, 2012; Hays et al., 2021; Tarakci, Greer, & Groenen, 2016). Hierarchy in teams—one of the most proximal collectives for employees—influences how they behave and are perceived not only within the team, but also outside of the team (Ertug & Castellucci, 2013; Lahiri, Pahnke, Howard, & Boeker, 2017). This symposium aims to contribute to this emerging and important trend of studying status and power in the team context. We believe that our symposium will help generate new perspectives and important questions regarding hierarchy and teams. We hope that it will facilitate sophisticated theorizing and rigorous empirics for this line of research. How Team Performance and Its Trajectory Influence Voluntary Turnover: A Status Perspective Presenter: Jiani Zhu; Georgia Institute of Technology Presenter: Huisi Li; Georgia Institute of Technology Perceived Status Hierarchy Accuracy and Intergroup Negotiation Performance Presenter: Siyu Yu; Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice U. Presenter: Gavin J. Kilduff; New York U. Presenter: Yu Yang; ShanghaiTech U. Second in Command or Second Opinion? Testing a Dual-path Model of Informal Leader Emergence Presenter: Edward McClain Wellman; Arizona State U. Presenter: Min Yu; Arizona State U. Presenter: Luke Hedden; Boston College The Reciprocal Relationship between Power and Status Presenter: James Garrett Matusik; U. of Georgia Presenter: Rebecca Mitchell; U. of Colorado Boulder Presenter: Nicholas Hays; Michigan State U. Mean Dependence and Systematic Bias in Studies of Social Hierarchy in Teams Presenter: Brian Alan Burgess; Michigan State U. Presenter: Daniel Jacob Griffin; Michigan State U.

Congar’s Imperfect Critique of “Hierarchiology”

Congar’s Imperfect Critique of “Hierarchiology” Ephrem Reese O.P. The Secretary-General of the Synod of Bishops opened a recent address by stating his hope for the Church: Yves Congar believed that Catholic ecclesiology over the last two millennia can be divided quite simply into two distinct periods. The first millennium, he said, operated out of what he called a communio-ecclesiology; the church of the second millennium, shifted to operating out of a top-down ecclesiology, which Congar summarized as “hierarchology.” Today I want to share my hope that, in the wake of Vatican II and its reception by Pope Francis, historians will look back on the church of the third millennium as one characterized by an ecclesiology of “synodality.”1 What is this top-down ecclesial modus operandi of the second millennium that must sink at last, as the star of synodality rises? The Dominican theologian Yves Marie-Joseph Congar (1904–1995) is commonly recognized as the most important ecclesiologist in the twentieth century, one whose ideas about the Church repeatedly found expression in the documents of the Second Vatican Council. Congar made “hierarchy,” a [End Page 545] term apparently coined by Pseudo-Dionysius in the fifth or sixth century,2 one of the special objects of his theological focus. In treating it, he ridicules “hierarchiology” (which he means to be a post-thirteenth-century Western reduction of writing on the Church to the clergy), and castigates “Dionysian ideology,” which he discerns in Boniface VIII’s bull of 1302, Unam Sanctam.3 For all of Congar’s staggering erudition, fervent faith, and ecumenical spirit, he rarely credits Dionysius as a pillar in the ecclesiologies of both East and West. Instead, when Dionysius is treated, he appears in Congar’s writing as the downfall of medieval ecclesiology. Recent appreciation for Dionysius shows him to be a Pauline thinker who deftly translates biblical and liturgical realities into neo-Platonic vocabulary.4 Dionysius gives us a rather full and impressive treatise on [End Page 546] the Church many centuries before the ecclesiological debates sparked by Boniface VIII’s pontificate. Rather shortly before the seismic conflict over ecclesiastical and civil power between Pope Boniface and Philip the Fair toward the beginning of the fourteenth century, Thomas Aquinas embraced and adapted Dionysian thinking on hierarchy to defend religious priests in the mendicant controversies of the thirteenth century, and to reveal the sacramental principles of the Church. Close reading of Dionysius and Aquinas reveals a harmony between the two that differs from what Congar describes. It can be shown that Dionysius himself differs from his reception by certain Dionysian thinkers, and develops a faithfully Christian account of the divinization of all through orthodox worship and theology.5 It can also be shown that Thomas read Dionysius carefully and followed him more closely than his anti-mendicant adversaries in his understanding of hierarchy, while developing a unique theology of religious perfection through charity and sacramental grace.6 Since demonstrating those theses [End Page 547] would entail two larger projects, I will not attempt to do so here. Rather, I will summarize Congar’s influential account of hierarchy as “hierarchiology” and propose a revision to his Thomistic ecclesiology. I will isolate my study of Congar to six texts which span several decades.7 [End Page 548] The earliest and latest of them are dedicated to expressing Thomas Aquinas’s theology of the Church, and serve as bookends to this discussion. The earlier is important for having been published numerous times, and giving a broad programmatic statement of Congar’s Thomistic idea of the Church.8 This 1939 essay, “L’idée de l’Église chez saint Thomas d’Aquin” (text 1), may be paired with Congar’s 1978 essay “Vision de l’Église chez Thomas d’Aquin” (text 6).9 Congar’s long 1961 essay “Aspects ecclésiologiques de la querelle entre mendiants et séculiers dans la seconde moitié du XIIIe siècle et le début du XIVe” (text 2)10 is the most decisive for the question of Dionysian hierarchy, and its influence is felt in any subsequent writing on Thomas and the mendicant controversies. However, other works anticipate...

ДОКТРИНАЛЬНА НОРМОТВОРЧІСТЬ ОРГАНІВ ВІЙСЬКОВОГО УПРАВЛІННЯ: ПРАВОВІ АСПЕКТИ ВАЛІДАЦІЇ

The article analyzes the legal (organizational-theoretical, comparative-applied, temporal-terminological, legitimation, validation aspects of the process of doctrinal rule-making of the military administration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the field of combat training and application of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other components of the Ukrainian Defense Forces. importance on the way to the Euro-Atlantic integration of our country, for the effective operation of national joint defense forces in a special period, the preparation of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for joint action and interoperability with the armed forces of NATO member states. In order to form a balanced system-scientific approach to streamlining the doctrinal rule-making process of the military administration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, an attempt was made to explore the nature, legal features of adaptation, validation and place of military publications in the national system of military administration, including doctrinal documents borrowed from member states. NATO. This is also relevant in view of the fact that the doctrine was perceived in the system of military law of Ukraine exclusively as a military-political act of the national level. It is necessary to harmonize normative-legal and doctrinal-conceptual acts of military administration of Ukraine both on the basis of their legal force in the system of normative legal acts of military legislation and taking into account their hierarchy on the basis of organizational and operational level (strategic, operational, tactical). The state of legal support of doctrinal rule-making within the framework of the Defense Forces of Ukraine and military-departmental doctrinal rule-making has been clarified. The legal essence and nature of military publications, in particular doctrines in the system of military management, their general and special concept taking into account existing problems and features of modern process of normative-legal regulation, military-departmental law enforcement, transformation of legal understanding of hierarchy of military management acts taking into account military implementation are established and substantiated. -operative doctrines, amendments to the system of national defense and military management. Proposals have been formulated in order to optimize the process of doctrinal rule-making of military administration bodies, adaptation, validation and determination of the place of military-administrative operational doctrines in the system of acts of military administration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Ідентифікація метамодернізму як культурної практики

The article attempts to reveal the features of cultural practices of the metamodern era, to identify their fundamental features; to substantiate the peculiarities of human participation and empathy in the cultural process of modernity. The purpose of the scientific research was to describe the essence and analysis of the structure of metamodernism as a modern trend in the context of cultural practices. The basis for the methodology of the scientific study was the culturological approach, which allowed to substantiate the intertextuality of modern cultural practices in the context of metamodernism; to analyze a person’s perception of cultural changes and those socio-cultural experiences that are defined by metamodernists as “oscillation”; “Read” the significant provisions of metamodernism in the context of the relevance of today’s needs. It is noted that metamodernism as a special historical stage of cultural development (O. Dumitrescu, G. Freinacht, T. Vermuilen and R. van den Acker, H. Moraru), states radical changes in the modern world of culture (Metamodernism Historicity, affect and depth after postmodernism), Forming a “global mental paradigm”(N. Khrushchev). Based on the works of G. Freinacht, the characteristic features of the metamodernist worldview are revealed, in particular, an awareness of allergies; a belief in development and progress; an understanding of hierarchies; aiming at reconstruction; thinking “Both-And”. Analyzed as “metamodernist” cultural and artistic projects by S. Labaf, N.C. Ronkyo and L. Turner; works of art by O. Eliasson and J. Tarrell; literary discoveries by H. Murakami and D.F. Wallace, others. It is proved that the core parameters of the artist’s self-identification in metamodernism are work with emotions and technical mediality; sensuality and sentimentality; complicity of the creator and the public; irony, naivety and new sincerity, and (and above all) oscillation and multidimensionality. Emphasis is placed on the critique of metamodernism as a culturological concept, characterized by speculative philosophizing, conceptual dispersion, which are unable to provide meaningful substantiation of the essence of metahistoricity, metaeffect and metadeep of the cultural process of modernity.

Polyphony and Poikilia: Theology and Aesthetics in the Exegesis of Tradition in Georgian Chant

Georgian polyphonic chant and folk song is beginning to receive scholarly attention outside its homeland, and is a useful case study in several respects. This study focuses on the theological nature of its musical material, examining relevant examples in light of the patristic understanding of hierarchy and prototype and of iconography and liturgy. After brief historical and theological discussions, chant variants and paraliturgical songs from various periods and regions are analysed in depth, using a primarily geometrical approach, describing the iconography and significance of style, musical structure, contrapuntal relationships, melodic figuration, and ornamentation. Aesthetics and compositional processes are discussed, and the theological approach in turn sheds light on questions of historical development. It is demonstrated that Georgian polyphony is a rich repository of theology of the Trinity and the Incarnation, and the article concludes with broad theological reflections on the place of sound as it relates to text, prayer, and tradition over time.

On Ladders and Pyramids: Hierarchy’s Shape Determines Relationships and Performance in Groups

Hierarchies take different forms, which individuals mentally represent using different geometric shapes. We propose and empirically demonstrate that individuals' mental representations of the shape hierarchy takes affect its consequences. Five studies compared two common mental representations of hierarchy shapes-ladders and pyramids-to explore whether, why, and how individuals' perceptions of hierarchy's shape undermine constructive relationships within groups and group performance. Study 1 demonstrated that individuals commonly mentally represent hierarchies as ladders and pyramids. In Studies 2 and 3, employees who perceived their workplace hierarchies to be shaped like ladders (as compared with pyramids) experienced worse intragroup relationships. Finally, Studies 4 and 5 experimentally manipulated groups' hierarchical shape in the lab and found that ladder-shaped hierarchies undermined social relationships and group performance relative to pyramid-shaped hierarchies. Taken together, these findings enhance our understanding of hierarchies' multifaceted consequences and help shed light on the (dis)utility of hierarchy for group functioning.

Las residencias Moches: un primer análisis de la sintaxis espacial en las huacas del Sol y de la Luna, Perú

This paper presents a first approximation obtained from the use of space syntax in residential households in the ancient Moche city (s. VII-IX AD). Studies in the site of Temples of the Sun and Moon have elucidated that during the last centuries of occupation, the theocratic system collapsed and a change began towards a new political and ideological system by the new ruling elites. The analyses have allowed us to understand the logic of built space in three households’ complex and show a high understanding of hierarchy and spatial distribution by its former inhabitants. Obviously, the use of Archaeology of architecture in societies like the Moche requires more studies, because these households have very complex internal divisions, where the spatial unit does not always work independently, but in many cases are linked with other constituting a complex functional space.

Of watchdogs and safe havens: control mechanisms and/in online sacred spaces

‘Die große Schlacht. Der Hass des Satans auf Benedikt XVI. Non prae­valebunt’ is the headline of an article the Austrian-based and Catholic news portal, kath.net, published in early June 2012. It is about how badly and unfairly the media treat the Catholic Church and its official representatives in the wake of the so-called ‘Vatileaks’ scandal and it reasons that Satan is behind the attacks of the media, society, popular culture, on saintly figures such as Pope Benedict XVI. ‘Gegen die Diktatur des Relativismus’ is another article published on the same platform in the context of a conference hosted by the Catholic Heiligenkreuz monastery. On the forum kath.net, powerful language is employed to draw the faithful in, to make them feel themselves to be safe within a community of like-minded people in the midst of turmoil. News portals and message boards such as kath.net create safe spaces within a world whose culture, values, and morals are not only not understood but despised. The analysis is informed by critical discourse analysis and based on Paul Ricœur’s understanding of narratives and how narratives create worlds. As a first step, the concept of space and Ricœur’s understanding of narrative identity are discussed. After an introduction to the news portal kath.net, a close reading of some articles shows how these safe spaces are created and guarded. To conclude, a reflection on the implications of the self-understanding of kath.net and some of its user base on the understanding of hierarchy and the role of theology in the Church, is provided.

Uso de metodologia ativa na disciplina gerenciamento de enfermagem em saúde coletiva da FEO/UFPEL

A preparação de recursos humanos para atuar no Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) é um desafio para as instituições públicas de ensino superior. O artigo tem o objetivo de descrever a experiência de graduandos de enfermagem no aprendizado do Gerenciamento em Saúde Coletiva aplicando uma metodologia ativa de compreensão do SUS, comentando aspectos positivos e limitadores desse processo. A experiência aconteceu no Curso de Graduação em Enfermagem e Obstetrícia da Universidade Federal de Pelotas/RS, no período de 2000-2008. Como aspecto positivo os acadêmicos destacam a aproximação com o mundo do trabalho na lógica do SUS, utilizando-se de ferramentas como o planejamento, organização, coordenação, compreensão da hierarquização e regionalização dos serviços de saúde no município e região. Neste contato o acadêmico é motivado a exercitar a crítica e reflexão em relação aos indicadores de saúde, à gestão de recursos humanos, físicos e financeiros e tomar decisões indicando o que é prioridade para um contexto específico. Reside aí um limite, os acadêmicos desejam discutir e sugerir uma proposta formulada, visitando o município, o que não foi viabilizado até o momento. O espaço também permite acompanhar mudanças que visam o fortalecimento do SUS a exemplo do Pacto pela Vida.

Local strategies in globalizing gender politics: Women's organizing in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan1

This research investigates the implications of globalizing gender politics for relations among local women's organizations in and across two Central Asian countries—contemporary Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Globalizing gender politics refers to the growing presence of gender in the discourses and practices of a range of national, international, and transnational actors, working within Western frameworks of development, democratization and civil society. Diverse forms of women's organizing flourish across these countries, influenced by changing gender roles and relations, and by new access to material and discursive resources. Within the milieu of globalizing gender politics, much emphasis has been placed on non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as a result of the recent shift to facilitate bottom-up development. At the same time, these organizations have been stereotyped for their dependence on aid and deference to donors, and their lack of cooperation and collaboration. This suggests a need to explore more deeply diverse forms of women's organizing, beyond a focus on the women's NGO sector as a homogenous body. I parse out layers of this organizing in and across Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Layers emerge as a result of the administration of material and discursive resources of globalizing gender politics, in accordance with assumptions and expectations of localized spaces. Investigating processes of localization allows for a more nuanced understanding of hierarchies and exclusions among diverse women and their organizations.