Formation of Social Class: A Network Theory Approach

social network;social class;homophily;330

Seungjoon Roh사회과학대학 경제학부 ;

University:서울대학교 대학원

关键词: social network;    social class;    homophily;    330;   

Others  :  http://s-space.snu.ac.kr/bitstream/10371/134685/1/000000067489.pdf

美国|英语

来源: Seoul National University Open Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper studies the underlying incentives of social class formation. I use the network model of favor exchange developed in Jackson et al. (2012), and extend it to more generalized case where each agent has their own capacity of value, which they can deliver through doing a favor. I verify that even in the heterogeneous value case, thenetwork that is renegotiation-proof and robust to social contagion must take the form of social quilt suggested in Jackson et al. (2012), and the agents in robust network are not connected to those who have significantly lower value than his own value. This suggests that the social class is formed because of the people’s incentive to not toconnected with other people with lower social status.