Social distance and social decisions
Social distance and social decisions
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DOI：
10.2307/2171877
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发表时间：
1997-09-01
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影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Akerlof, GA
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作者：
Akerlof, GA
提出了一种有助于理解社会决策的社会距离模型。讨论了先前模型中的状态和一致性，然后描述了概括。在这种泛化中，代理人继承了社会空间中的位置以及两个个体之间的贸易预期价值，作为其初始位置差异的函数。构建了该系统的一个示例，其中存在阶级稳定性。最初关系密切的智能体互动强烈，而社交距离较远的智能体互动很少。在这个例子中，继承的社会地位（可以解释为社会阶层）起着主导作用。该模型与社会决策（例如教育程度和生育的选择）的相关性在具体的民族志例子的背景下进行了讨论。阶级地位可能在这些决定中发挥主导作用。
A model of social distance is presented that is useful for understanding social decisions. Status and conformity in previous models are discussed, and then a generalization is described. In this generalization agents have inherited positions in social space and an expected value of trade between two individuals as a function of the difference in their initial positions. An example of this system is constructed in which there is class stability. Agents who are initially close interact strongly while those who are socially distant have little interaction. In this example inherited social position, which may be interpreted as social class, plays a dominant role. The relevance of this model to social decisions such as the choice of educational attainment and childbearing is discussed in the context of specific ethnographic examples. Class position may play a dominant role in these decisions.