"hierarchical thinking" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a way of organizing information in which one item is considered to be more important or more influential than the others. For example, "The CEO employed hierarchical thinking to decide the priorities of the company's projects."
Her findings suggest that, in many situations, hierarchical thinking is the default; when we don't have the time, energy, inclination, or capacity to think carefully, we fall back on the notion that we should honor those with more power and prestige.
Communication habits and hierarchical thinking in Southeast Asia can be a major barrier to open exchanges.
Even after astronomers abandoned the notion of a closed Ptolemaic universe, hierarchical thinking was not abandoned.
But you can easily give a test with questions that themselves force that kind of hierarchical thinking.
Hispanic Society of America Then there is work for which provenance, mainstream or provincial, cannot be determined by style, throwing another wrench into hierarchical thinking.
Hierarchical thinking and their fixation on the authority that comes with being the boss lead them to define their responsibilities too narrowly.
The course provides an overall framework, the multilevel and generalized multilevel (hierarchical) model, for thinking about and analyzing these forms of data.
Posthumanism, in this acception, has been rightly defined as a post-humanism and a post-anthropocentrism [9]; I would like to stress it, more generally, as a post-centralizing as well: a "post" which is constantly opening possibilities and does not comply with hierarchical ways of thinking [20].
We present a hierarchical framework for thinking about a question that has not been quantitatively addressed: how well do animals navigate?
First, he was thinking in hierarchical terms: Dobzhansky made it explicitly clear that the rules governing genetic inheritance ("physiological genetics" in his parlance) are different from the rules governing the fate of gene frequencies within populations ("population genetics").
Some wards were perceived by the students as " old fashioned and status quo" and " hierarchical characterized by silo thinking".
