Dynamics of Status Symbols & Social Complexity
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چکیده
In this paper, a symbolic version of the Simmel effect has been explored via computer simulation. By Simmel effect, we mean the dynamics of status symbols in hiearchically ordered societies. This phenomemon was highligthed by the sociologist Georg Simmel (1895), when he attempted to explain the rapid diffusion and decline of fashion. Simmel, hypothesised that the instability of fashion results from the combined action of two essential modes of the members of a hierarchically ordered society: imitation of higher status members, and distinction from those belonging to lower statuses. In order to test the Simmel’s Hypothesis we implemented a simulation model: the symbolic Simmel model (SySM) in which a set of artificial agents hierarchically orderd apply in different combination the rules of imitation and distinction in the common task of sharing symbols. Our simulation findings support the view that the Simmel condition allows for a variable or unstable fate of symbols: the success of status symbols starts to decline as soon as they become dominant.
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