Paper Info
Title
Complexity, selectivity and asymmetry in the conformation of the power phenomenon. Analysis of Chilean society
Abstract
In this work we analyzed the relationships between powerful politicians and businessmen of Chile in order to study the phenomenon of social power. We developed our study according to Complex Network Theory but also using traditional sociological theories of Power and Elites. Our analyses suggest that the studied network displays common properties of Complex Networks, such as scaling in connectivity distribution, properties of small-world networks, and modular structure, among others. We also observed that social power (a proposed metric is presented in this work) is also distributed inhomogeneously. However, the most interesting observation is that this inhomogeneous power and connectivity distribution, among other observed properties, may be the result of a dynamic and unregulated process of network growth in which powerful people tend to link to similar others. The compatibility between people, increasingly selective as the network grows, could generate the presence of extremely powerful people, but also a constant inequality of power where the difference between the most powerful is the same as among the least powerful. Our results are also in accordance with sociological theories.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.3934/nhm.2015.10.167
NETWORKS AND HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA
Keywords
Field
DocType
Complex networks,social networks,model,theory of Elites,theory of social power
Sociological theory,Mathematical optimization,Mathematical economics,Social network,Inequality,Complex network,Phenomenon,Asymmetry,Scaling,Modular structure,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
SP1
1556-1801
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.45
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juan Pablo Cárdenas131.54
Gerardo Vidal220.84
Gastón Olivares331.54