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Abstract | ||
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The structure of societies depends, to some extent, on the incentives of the individuals they are composed of. We study a stylized model of this interplay, that suggests that the more individuals aim at climbing the social hierarchy, the more society’s hierarchy gets strong. Such a dependence is sharp, in the sense that a persistent hierarchical order emerges abruptly when the preference for social status gets larger than a threshold. This phase transition has its origin in the fact that the presence of a well defined hierarchy allows agents to climb it, thus reinforcing it, whereas in a “disordered” society it is harder for agents to find out whom they should connect to in order to become more central. Interestingly, a social order emerges when agents strive harder to climb society and it results in a state of reduced social mobility, as a consequence of ergodicity breaking, where climbing is more difficult. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2012 | 10.1007/s10955-013-0693-0 | Journal of Statistical Physics |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Social networks,Phase transitions,Game theory | Journal | abs/1207.6416 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
3 | Journal of Statistical Physics 151 (2013), pp. 440-457 | 2 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.52 | 0 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marco Bardoscia | 1 | 2 | 0.86 |
| Giancarlo De Luca | 2 | 2 | 0.52 |
| Giacomo Livan | 3 | 9 | 3.78 |
| Matteo Marsili | 4 | 149 | 17.65 |
| Claudio J. Tessone | 5 | 116 | 15.73 |