Rank system - Kaisei

Japanese: 位階制 - いかいせい
Rank system - Kaisei

...When people or similar subjects are organized in a pyramidal hierarchy based on a certain principle of value or within a certain system of functions, this refers to the organizational principle and the actual organization that is formed. It is often translated as hierarchy, rank system, or status hierarchy. For example, just as the angels in heaven are divided into three hierarchical positions, the clergy on earth are also divided into hierarchical positions, such as bishop, priest, and deacon in Catholicism and bishop, priest, and deacon in Eastern Orthodoxy.

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to the "hierarchy" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…一定の価値原理にもとづき,または一定の職能体系のなかで,人びとやこれに準じた対象が上下の序列関係に位置づけられ,ピラミッド型に組織された場合,この組織原理および実際に形成された組織体のことをいう。階統制,位階制,身分階層制などと訳されることが多い。たとえば天国の天使たちの間で序列上の地位が3段階に分かれるように,地上の世界で聖職者たちも,カトリックでは司教・司祭・助祭と,東方正教では主教・司祭・輔祭というように序列上の地位が分かれている。…

※「位階制」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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