The Simmel effect and babies’ names

M.J. Krawczyk, A. Dydejczyk and K. Kułakowski

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2014, vol. 395, issue C, 384-391

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 his/her node. Particular features, once selected by a highly connected agent, become common in lower classes but soon fall out of fashion and become extinct. Numerical results reflect the dynamics of frequency of American babies’ names in 1880–2011.

Keywords: Fashion; Simulation; Babies’ names; Simmel effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.10.018

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