Network Persistence and the Axis of Hierarchy reimagines the very nature of social life starting from quite ordinary even banal considerations culminating in conclusions that challenge central universally held tenets. The main argument shows how networks modestly redefined as a strong yet imperfect tendency for pairings to recur day after day that is stickiness imply a singular axis of stratification. This is contrary to the nearly universal insistence that stratification is multidimensional. Re