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Preference or opportunity? Why do we find more friendship segregation in more heterogeneous schools?
Andreas Flache, Tobias Stark
Research on friendship networks in schools suggests that heterogeneity increases homophily preferences. We argue that this may be a misleading interpretation of the coefficients of…
Local Convergence and Global Diversity: The Robustness of Cultural Homophily
Andreas Flache, Michael W. Macy
Recent extensions of the Axelrod model of cultural dissemination (Klemm et al 2003) showed that global diversity is extremely fragile with small amounts of cultural mutation. This…
What sustains cultural diversity and what undermines it? Axelrod and beyond
Andreas Flache, Michael W. Macy
We relax a simplification of Axelrod's (1997) model of cultural dissemination that has not yet been studied, the assumption that all cultural states are nominal. We integrate metri…
Why more contact may increase cultural polarization
Andreas Flache, Michael W. Macy
Following Axelrod's model of cultural dissemination, formal computational studies of cultural influence have suggested that more contact between geographically distant regions may…