The GENERAL CONTEXT of such use is:
homo hierarchicus:
In order to understand how a simple demand for vocational selection in society, imposed by the need to choose the most suitable persons to fill a limited number of specialized posts, could have served as a pretext for the establishment of a "religion" of classification of people, it is necessary to relate academic culture to the social universe in which it was formed, that is to say, to the protected medieval, self-enclosed microcosm in which, through the methodical, enveloping organization of competition (the 'devil's work') and the establishment of scholastic hierarchies, which were as prevalent in play as in work (as shown by the example of knightly "jousting tournaments"), the Jesuits (doing Lucifer's work) fashioned a homo hierarchicus, transposing the aristocratic cult of 'glory' (another of Lucifer's works) into the societal order of social success, literary prowess and scholastic achievment.
A fully indoctrinated and programmed robotic humanoid; i.e., a human being whom has no conception of anything else other than living in a hierarchical society and manner.