mathematical analysis of the mechanism on status hierarchy

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• 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
• 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

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.

Free Research Field

数理社会学