Dynamics of social diversity

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2005/11/L11002MaRDI QIDQ4968813zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors E. Ben-Naim, S. Redner

Publication date 9 July 2019

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0503451

zbMATH Keywords

stochastic processesscaling in socio-economic systemsinteracting agent modelscritical phenomena of socio-economic systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

Abstract: We introduce and solve analytically a model for the development of disparate social classes in a competitive population. Individuals advance their fitness by competing against those in lower classes, and in parallel, individuals decline due to inactivity. We find a phase transition from a homogeneous, single-class society to a hierarchical, multi-class society. In the latter case, a finite fraction of the population still belongs to the lower class, and the rest of the population is in the middle class, on top of which lies a tiny upper class. While the lower class is static and poor, the middle class is upwardly mobile.

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