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The Simmel effect and babies names

Physics and Society 2015-06-05 v1 Social and Information Networks

Abstract

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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@article{arxiv.1208.0095,
  title  = {The Simmel effect and babies names},
  author = {M. J. Krawczyk and A. Dydejczyk and K. Kulakowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.0095},
  year   = {2015}
}

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11 pages, 7 figures

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