Hierarchy is the natural operating system for human groups.
If that were true you'd see a lot of it among hunter-gatherers, but IIRC you don't. I suspect the opposite is true: that it's an invention for making advanced societies work.
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Leave a group of people alone for a enough time and it seems like hierarchy emerges. Maybe my intuition is formed by only knowing people from advanced societies, though.
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"Hierarchy" had meant different things in different ages. And hierarchy has a role, even as it is subverted, as becomes necessary from time to time.
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Both are right, just to different degree:https://www.britannica.com/topic/iron-law-of-oligarchy …
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Each species has its own variation of social hierarchy emerging from the survival constraints of its ecological niche. Put a bunch of homo sapiens together in a room as complete strangers and a pyramid will naturally be established. Social structure exists wherever humans exist.
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With nomads and Vikings hierarchy is less pronounced. You look at people from the UAE for example, it was quite a flat society until very recently. Even today in Dubai it's quite fast among locals... (The rest of the society isn't)
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Leader-follower is genetically coded relating mechanisms among social animals on
just as wife-husband is, or parent-child or I would even argue trauma victims & a community that acts as safe environment for them to heal.
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But it doesn't work at least in a place like India which is on d growth path. It fuels distrust and effects oroductivity.
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You're correct. (official) hierarchies don't exist in tribes of small numbers. Official hierarchies only come into picture when the population of the tribe exceeds the Dunbar's number (i.e. 150) as it becomes effectively impossible to intimately know more than 150 humans.
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But unofficial hierarchies always exist. A pecking order will be formed in no-time if you lock 5 random hunter-gatherers in a room.
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