The Simmel effect and babies names
arXiv:1208.0095 · doi:10.1016/j.physa.2013.10.018
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.
11 pages, 7 figures
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