..., prestige, and hierarchy. Yet at the same time they also strike a unique tone by highlighting issues, norms, perceptions, and habits, as well as terminologies and phrases, unique to the bathing practices of their own communities. They reveal the inner workings of their society and show how the human...

...This chapter examines the varieties of order and system while tackling the contingent societal stability of an institutionalized hierarchy with American European Roots. It highlights how any international system of regimes depends on international order, which is fragile if states hover between...

... to scholars and so it is hard to pinpoint the pervasiveness of hierarchy and control inside these groups. The chapter shows that agency problems are pervasive in terrorist organizations and security-reducing paperwork and bureaucracy were present in many of them. Euskadi Ta Askatasuna ETA Fatah memoirs...

... paid to the ideal of equality between sovereign states in the modern world, this chapter argues that hierarchy between powerful and weaker states is the norm in international relations. Such hierarchical relations can be justified if they benefit both powerful and weaker states. The chapter draws...

... different in local contexts. The second is that the systems for organizing societies around race intersected, in each of these contexts, with other social hierarchies, including class, gender, and sexuality. Understanding the particular racial politics that this group of migrants articulated requires...

...This chapter focuses on low-skilled employment. It shows that employers have a racial hierarchy of preference and that they rely on word-of-mouth hiring to attract Latino and Asian workers with the racial and/or immigrant abilities they prize. The chapter gives special attention to meatpacking...

... to the caliph to protect the rights of Christians. It also demonstrates what the greater proximity between the patriarch and the caliph meant for the Jacobite hierarchy, and how the threat of Muslim populations encouraged the Jacobite leadership to act as a service elite for the caliph. The chapter describes...

..., and derives the BBGKY hierarchy of equations for their evolution. This yields a new way to analyze the evolution of mass clustering in an expanding universe. Of course, the main interest in the approach comes from the thought that the observed galaxy correlation functions may yield useful approximations...

..., hierarchy, property, and control shaped the ideologies and institutions of the fledgling nation. The book examines how, facing pressure from populist movements as well as the threat of foreign empires, these gentlemen argued among themselves to find new ways of justifying economic and political inequality...

... of domestic transformations. Though rare and fleeting, they not only repeatedly alter the global hierarchy of powerful states but also create unique and powerful opportunities for sweeping national reforms—by triggering military impositions, swiftly changing the incentives of domestic actors, or transforming...

... and how cultural hierarchies take shape in a global context. The book's innovative global field approach will appeal to scholars in the sociology of art, cultural and economic sociology, interdisciplinary global studies, and anyone interested in the dynamics of global art and culture....

... of urban evolution that allow for general intradistributional dependence; the hierarchy principle of industrial diversity; the link between geography and spatial clustering; and studies of urban structure based on “quasi-natural experiments.” Finally, it assesses global aspects of city size distribution...

...This book examines when and how status matters in international politics. There are two ways in which the term “status” is commonly used. The first refers to status in its most purely positional sense: standing, an actor's rank or position in a hierarchy. The second considers status...

.... The chapter also considers additional mechanisms that link status concerns to war through individuals' willingness to escalate their commitment to a failing course of action, including power and social dominance orientation (SDO). The results show that subjects with stronger preferences for hierarchy...

... integrated institutional theory regarding regime and growth is built on four intellectual pillars, which include the endogenous growth model centered on knowledge and the political economy of hierarchy. Moreover, the coming of hierarchy in human society poses two opposing dynamics for the economic...

... hierarchy. The chapter then explains world polity theory and how it helps us explain the expansion of Western models of nation-statehood throughout the world. It discusses Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony and the effect of continued Anglo-European dominance in the international system on newly...

... that forced the aristocrats to find new avenues to power and influence, such as state administration or church hierarchy. The chapter uses letters and saints' lives to chart how many aristocracies benefited from the collapse of the Roman and Sasanian empires before the caliphs started to reassert...

... and repurposed the principle to preserve racial hierarchy in the new international organization. In this appropriation, Wilson and Smuts effectively remade self-determination as a racially differentiated principle, which was fully compatible with imperial rule. The chapter charts the implications...

... thinkers and politicians challenged international racial hierarchy and articulated alternative visions of worldmaking. Seeking to create an egalitarian postimperial world, they attempted to transcend legal, political, and economic hierarchies by securing a right to self-determination within the newly...

... of leadership, a theory of incrimination in connection with war crimes might be developed which could be applied to fit the special circumstances arising under the Nazi hierarchy, and which might be much more comprehensible to an incriminated member of the Nazi Party or state than any technical established rule...