Chaos and Cultural Fashions

Sergio Benvenuto
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A chapter in Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development, 2006, pp 179-190 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The author approaches the old sociological riddle of cultural fashions—that is, of the ephemeral success of a cultural trait—making use of the theories of Chaos and Complexity. Reconsidering a classic of the sociological literature—Georg Simmel’s interpretation of fashions—the author approaches the dynamics of fashions as the result of two contradictory tensions, one pushing people to imitate others perceived as “up”, and another pushing each individual to distinguish her- or himself from the others.

Keywords: cultural fashions; urn problem; Simmel’s paradigm; strange attractors; systems dependent on initial conditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/0-387-28898-8_13

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