Heuristics, Interactions, and Status Hierarchies: an Agent-Based Model of Deference Exchange Gianluca Manzo and Delia Baldassarri
Heuristics, Interactions, and Status Hierarchies: An Agent-based Model of Deference Exchange Gianluca Manzo and Delia Baldassarri The self-archived postprint version of this journal article is available at Linköping University Institutional Repository (DiVA): http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-148770 N.B.: When citing this work, cite the original publication. Manzo, G., Baldassarri, D., (2015), Heuristics, Interactions, and Status Hierarchies: An Agent-based Model of Deference Exchange, Sociological Methods & Research, 44(2), 329-387. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124114544225 Original publication available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124114544225 Copyright: SAGE Publications (UK and US) http://www.uk.sagepub.com/home.nav HEURISTICS, INTERACTIONS, AND STATUS HIERARCHIES: AN AGENT-BASED MODEL OF DEFERENCE EXCHANGE. Gianluca Manzo Delia Baldassarri CNRS & University of Paris-Sorbonne New York University Abstract Since Merton’s classical analysis of cumulative advantage in science, it has been observed that status hierarchies display a sizable disconnect between actors’ quality and rank, and that they become increasingly asymmetric over time, without, however, turning into winner-take- all structures. In recent years, formal models of status hierarchies (e.g., Gould 2002; Lynn, Podolny and Tao 2009) tried to account for these facts by combining two micro-level, counterbalancing mechanisms, i.e. “social influence” (supposedly driving inequality) and the desire for “reciprocation in deferential gestures” (supposedly limiting inequality). In the paper, we adopt as empirical benchmark the abovementioned basic features that are common to most distributions of status indicators (e.g., income, academic prestige, wealth, social ties) and argue that previous formal models were only partially able to reproduce such macro-level patterns.
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