However, political collectivism is not necessarily associated with support for states, governments, or other hierarchical institutions.

There are things common to most businesses: gaining a professional demeanor, knowing how to fit within a hierarchical institution, not stepping on toes.

Lerner had survived jail, he wrote, by applying the same personnel skills he perfected in another claustrophobic, hierarchical institution that he privately disdained - the phone company.

But in a hierarchical, orderly institution like the Chilean Army, there has to be more people involved than just four poor recruits.

She thus describes the church, after the conversion of Constantine, as one that "evolved as a hierarchical, patriarchal, and episcopal institution in which the charismatic, or spiritual, expression of Christianity was suppressed.

History has many examples of hierarchical institutions being disrupted by technological advances.

The centrality of hierarchical institutions in this field (and its closeness to the field of power) means that collective struggles will be between classes of 'priests' safely ensconced in institutions.

There are restive priests, now organized in the Boston Priests Forum, asking for greater autonomy from a traditionally hierarchical institution.

Second, the ruler(s) operate through hierarchical institutions (military, bureaucracy, priests).

"I think there's an impression that the armed forces is a male-dominated, hierarchical, authoritarian institution," he said in an interview on Thursday.