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GCSE English Literature · key term
An arrangement of people into different levels of power or status.
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Paper 1
A system in which people or groups are arranged above and below one another in power and importance.
Revise: Social statusMessina has a clear social hierarchy. Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, stands above Leonato, the governor who hosts him. Claudio is a count and a successful young soldier; Benedick is a gentleman and soldier.
An arrangement of people into unequal levels of rank, status or authority.
Integrate context into analysis of a particular moment: explain how social hierarchy or contemporary suspicion of magic makes its power relationships significant.
Part (a): Explain relevant social circumstances within the extracts, such as hierarchy, bullying, fear of punishment and pressure to belong. Use the introductions to help interpret the unseen extract.
Part (a): Use the introductions and extract details to infer relevant social context, such as peer pressure, hierarchy and the need for acceptance. AO1 and AO3 each carry twice the weighting of AO2.
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Paper 1
A social order in which people or groups occupy different levels of power and importance.
Revise: Social statusDon Pedro, Prince of Aragon, stands at the top of the play's hierarchy. Leonato is the governor of Messina and a wealthy, influential host, but he addresses the visiting prince as 'your grace' in Act 1 Scene 1. Claudio is a count and a successful young soldier; Benedick is a gentleman and soldier.
An arrangement in which people occupy different levels of status and authority.
A system in which people or groups are ranked above or below one another in status or authority.
Paper 1, Paper 2
A system in which people or groups are ranked above and below one another in power or status.
Revise: Equality and classYet this chapter also contains the beginnings of hierarchy. The pigs direct and supervise rather than doing the agricultural labour. They put forward the proposals at meetings, while the others vote.
A ranking of people within a group according to their power or status.
A ranking of people according to their power or status within a group.
A ranking of people by power or status, with some able to direct or control others.
An arrangement of people in higher and lower positions of power or importance.
Component 1
An arrangement of people or groups into higher and lower positions of authority or importance.
Revise: Social statusThe nobles’ confidence has produced injustice; the socially subordinate watch supplies the means to correct it. Their public authority comes from the same hierarchy they expose as fallible, since they arrest the suspects in the prince’s name. Shakespeare questions the judgement of the powerful without abolishing social order.
A system in which people occupy different levels of status and authority.
