Functional social hierarchies are built upon competence and reciprocity, rather than power and coercion.

“I think our hierarchies when they're functional are predicated on competence and reciprocity and it's only when they become pathological that they're based on power”

Social hierarchies in chimpanzees are functional and often rely on support and reciprocity rather than being based purely on power and coercion.

“our functional hierarchies are not based on dominance and then he said and i think that that's that idea is a consequence of the invasion of marxist-derived ideas implicitly into the biological domain”

School environments serve as a microcosm of society where social hierarchies are established at a young age.

“School is a microcosm of of society and you get to see you know you're people of higher levels people lower levels you're people that uh are bullies you're people that are um victims to those bullies so you get to see everything the social hierar hierarchy gets set at that young age”