Ancient Rome was made up of a structure called a social hierarchy, or division of people into differently-ranked groups depending on their jobs and family. The emperor was at the top of this structure, followed by the wealthy landowners, the common people, and the slaves (who were the ...
Treaty of Rome in 1957 remains a dead letter. How long can such a neoliberal policy last? While national governments are subject to the sanctions of universal suffrage, European leaders give the impression of being immovable, or at least beyond the reach of rejection by the electorate. This st...
The Roman envoys sent to settle affairs in the East after Rome’s victory over Macedonia in 167 BC must have been shocked at the spectacle that awaited them in Nikomedeia, the capital of the kingdom of Bithynia.1They expected to meet Prusias, king of Bithynia, a friend and ally of the...
Based on that, the study revealed a hierarchy of the domains of making decisions: there are some areas that are governed by the heads of households and some are individual decisions; however, these decisions and domains are context specific. Each household implements its own hierarchy of the dom...
Thus, the just society, though based on the competent promotion of the common good, involves a hierarchical social order and an equitable distribution of political rights and responsibilities among ranking members of that hierarchy (see also Aristotle: Political theory). Aristotle’s understanding of...
and so on. Complex systems are based on asystemic hierarchythat allows the control of elements, ensuring that they act in a coordinated and harmonious manner. They are ruled by what Haken (1983) defined as theslaving principle: the elements at a lower hierarchical level are slaves to the up...
The Social Organisation of a Population of Free-Ranging Dogs in s Suburban Area of Rome: A Reassessment of the Effects of Domestication on Dogs’ Behaviour In: Kaminski J, Sarah Marshall-Pescini (editors). The Social Dog. Behaviour and Cognition . Academic Press, Elsevier, Amsterdam; 2014. ...
In theory, monarchs were at the top of the feudal hierarchy and held the largest amount of land and power of any group in the middle ages, but the reality was that they had to constantly fight to keep that power. Both the nobility and the clergy frequently tried to wrest control of lan...
We analyze social norms on unethical behaviors in the workplace using a laboratory experiment. We conducted a norm-elicitation experiment in which we consi
In addition to experiencing disparities in income, social hierarchy, division of labour, decision-making ability, access to resources, and agency, women also frequently occupy disempowered and disadvantaged gendered power roles and social hierarchies (Birks et al. 2013). The UN Sustainable Development...