mathematical analysis of the mechanism on status hierarchy

• Project/Area Number: 25780304
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: Takikawa Hiroki 東北大学, 学際科学フロンティア研究所, 助教 (60456340)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
• Keywords: 数理社会学 / 地位階層制 / 社会ネットワーク / 社会的不平等 / ゲーム理論 / 社会ネットワーク分析 / 社会的地位 / 隔離 / 量的方法論 / 国際情報交換(アメリカ）

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We achieved two major results in this research project. First, we formalized the generative process of a social status hierarchy, that is, an institution in which people are differentiated into each distinct, unequal social status, by using game theory and social network theory. In particular, we proposed a relational model formalizing the process in which the hierarchy are generated through the configuration of all the people in the social system. Second, we developed an empirical method to capture the characteristics of social structure including social status hierarchy. We proposed a statistical method that enables to extract the information on social network structure of social statuses among people from social survey, and applied it to the real data.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] スタンフォード大学(米国)
• [Journal Article] ソーシャルキャピタルと社会統合 (2015)
  • Author(s): 瀧川裕貴
  • Journal Title: 日本大学法学紀要 Volume: 56 Pages: 459-469
• [Presentation] 関係社会学の数理社会学的基礎づけをめぐって (2015)
  • Author(s): 瀧川裕貴
  • Organizer: 科学社会学会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京
  • Year and Date: 2015-10-10
• [Presentation] A Method for Generating a Macro Structure of Networks from Egocentric Networks (2015)
  • Author(s): Hiroki Takikawa and Paolo Parigi
  • Organizer: 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association,
  • Place of Presentation: プラハ、チェコ共和国
  • Year and Date: 2015-08-26
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The Condition of Generous Trust (2014)
  • Author(s): Inagaki, Yusuke, Obayashi, Shinya and Hiroki Takikawa
  • Organizer: XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology
  • Place of Presentation: Yokohama, Japan.
  • Year and Date: 2014-07-13 – 2014-07-19
• [Presentation] The Condition of Generous Trust (2014)
  • Author(s): Takikawa, Hiroki and Shinya Obayashi
  • Organizer: International Network of Analytical Sociologists (INAS) Conference,
  • Place of Presentation: Manheim, Germany.
  • Year and Date: 2014-06-06 – 2014-06-07
• [Presentation] Uncovering relational structure of position generated social networks based on the duality of positions and actors (2014)
  • Author(s): Hiroki Takikawa
  • Organizer: Sunbelt XXXIV International Sunbelt Social Network Conference
  • Place of Presentation: セントピーターズバーグ、フロリダ、アメリカ
• [Presentation] A Relational Theory of Status Hierarchy (2013)
  • Author(s): Hiroki Takikawa
  • Organizer: The 2013 Xi'an INSNA Conference
  • Place of Presentation: 西安、中国
• [Book] 社会を数理で読み解くーー不平等とジレンマの構造 (2015)
  • Author(s): 盛山和夫・浜田宏・武藤正義・瀧川裕貴
  • Total Pages: 328
  • Publisher: 有斐閣
• [Book] 社会学入門 (2014)
  • Author(s): 小林・金井ほか編
  • Total Pages: 160
  • Publisher: 朝倉書店
• [Book] 現代の経済思想 (2014)
  • Author(s): 橋本努編
  • Total Pages: 600
  • Publisher: 勁草書房