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The Simmel effect and babies names

Małgorzata Krawczyk ,  Antoni Dydejczyk ,  Krzysztof Kułakowski 

AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science (AGH), Mickiewicza 30, Kraków 30-059, Poland

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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Submitted: 2012-11-09 16:43
Revised:   2013-01-21 13:29