Hierarchization is a system typical of the ritualism of the closed medieval class society, not of the mobile bourgeois class society. Institutions such as the army or the church are characterized by it: that is where their ranks, signatures and ceremonies come from, as well as extreme behaviors such as militarism and clericalism. There is also a very pronounced hierarchy in societies that have left the Middle Ages recently, such as Japan or Germany in the 19th century. For its part, bourgeois society also has ways of hierarchizing and ritualizing, even presenting itself through classism, bureaucracy, alienation and segregation.

In a society based on a chain of command, the social hierarchy is built, to a large extent, from clientelistic relationships that translate into common sense at the political level. Many traditional cultures typical of pre-industrial society were characterized by practically immovable hierarchies. The concept of revolution implies the abrupt change of hierarchies and social and political structures, and an example of this was the bourgeois revolutions or liberal revolutions that occurred at the end of the century and in the first half of the century. The class society typical of industrial society reproduced new forms of social hierarchy, and gave rise to new forces that challenged it (labor movement). The postindustrial society that is being built from the second half of the century presents forms of network organization whose nature is largely yet to be determined, as well as the place that social hierarchization will have in it.

The existence of egalitarian primitive cultures, without hierarchies or with non-stable hierarchies, has been confirmed both in the past and currently in hunter-gatherer societies. But on many occasions the attempts to describe an idyllic society that responds to this cliché are in themselves a sample of cultural prejudice: the myth of the noble savage. A society is not going to be more or less egalitarian or peaceful because it is "wild." This depends on the socioeconomic system that predominates in said society and the conditions of its environment. For example, the Shuar show very violent behavior and are hierarchical. The San, on the other hand, are predominantly peaceful and egalitarian.[4]​.

In the context of Christianity, it is used with two different meanings: the angelic hierarchy (the order among the choirs of angels, described in different biblical passages); and the ecclesiastical hierarchy (the order that is established in ecclesiastical instances between its different degrees - pope, archbishops, bishops, canons, archpriests, parish priests, other priests, lay people "Lay (Catholic Church)") -).

Hierarchization is a system typical of the ritualism of the closed medieval class society, not of the mobile bourgeois class society. Institutions such as the army or the church are characterized by it: that is where their ranks, signatures and ceremonies come from, as well as extreme behaviors such as militarism and clericalism. There is also a very pronounced hierarchy in societies that have left the Middle Ages recently, such as Japan or Germany in the 19th century. For its part, bourgeois society also has ways of hierarchizing and ritualizing, even presenting itself through classism, bureaucracy, alienation and segregation.

In a society based on a chain of command, the social hierarchy is built, to a large extent, from clientelistic relationships that translate into common sense at the political level. Many traditional cultures typical of pre-industrial society were characterized by practically immovable hierarchies. The concept of revolution implies the abrupt change of hierarchies and social and political structures, and an example of this was the bourgeois revolutions or liberal revolutions that occurred at the end of the century and in the first half of the century. The class society typical of industrial society reproduced new forms of social hierarchy, and gave rise to new forces that challenged it (labor movement). The postindustrial society that is being built from the second half of the century presents forms of network organization whose nature is largely yet to be determined, as well as the place that social hierarchization will have in it.

The existence of egalitarian primitive cultures, without hierarchies or with non-stable hierarchies, has been confirmed both in the past and currently in hunter-gatherer societies. But on many occasions the attempts to describe an idyllic society that responds to this cliché are in themselves a sample of cultural prejudice: the myth of the noble savage. A society is not going to be more or less egalitarian or peaceful because it is "wild." This depends on the socioeconomic system that predominates in said society and the conditions of its environment. For example, the Shuar show very violent behavior and are hierarchical. The San, on the other hand, are predominantly peaceful and egalitarian.[4]​.