The Simmel effect and babies names
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Simulations of the Simmel effect are performed for agents in a scale-free social network. The social hierarchy of an agent is determined by the degree of her node. Particular features, once selected by a highly connected agent, became common in lower class but soon fall out of fashion and extinct. Numerical results reflect the dynamics of frequency of American babies names in 1880-2011.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1208.0095 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012