The phrase "age hierarchy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a social structure or system where individuals are ranked or organized based on their age.
Example: "In many cultures, age hierarchy plays a significant role in determining authority and respect within families and communities."
Alternatives: "age-based ranking" or "age stratification".
In other words, even the oldest ranked themselves lowest in the age hierarchy.
In the Japanese culture, an age hierarchy is well entrenched in everyday social interactions such that deference towards older individuals exists not only at the behavioural level – in the form of bowing and gaze aversion [10] – but also at the linguistic level.
(IDI, 23, informal work)Within the public gender and age hierarchy that existed within the communities, a lack of access to work placed young men low down.
A gender and age hierarchy also dictates that the authority to make pregnancy-related decisions is located in the mother-in-law in Pakistan [ 19] and India [ 47].
Women in groups were segmented by age (i.e. 18 30 years, and 31 45 years) because initial discussions with CBSVs suggested that there were age hierarchy conflicts among women in the study communities.
Women in groups were segmented by age (15 30 years, and 31 45 years) because initial discussions with CBSVs suggested that there were age hierarchy conflicts among women in the study communities.
I argue that existing class, gender, and age hierarchies have shaped how the Defilement Law has been applied locally, such that despite the stated aim of "protecting" young women, the law reinstates patriarchal privilege (especially against men of lower social class) while simultaneously increasing the regulation of adolescent female sexuality and undermining their autonomy.
We are concerned throughout with how men evaluate themselves and position themselves within gender and age hierarchies.
The study shows that women's use of antenatal care is decided in a complex interplay of gender and age hierarchies.
Less often commented on is how gender hierarchies intersect with age hierarchies and violence can often be seen as situated at the intersection of these axes as well (27).
But the most alluring aspect of Eco's book is the way he imagines the community that results from any honest intellectual endeavor — the conversations you enter into across time and space, across age or hierarchy, in the spirit of free-flowing, democratic conversation.
