Interactions Among Agent Variables and Evolution of Social Clusters

TL;DR

This paper reviews a social interaction model where agents with variable states form groups, explores physics analogies, and analyzes historical revolutions to understand social cluster formation and variable interactions.

Contribution

It introduces a model combining social variables and physics concepts to analyze social cluster formation and hierarchical identities, with historical case studies.

Findings

Variables influence social group formation

Physics analogies help understand social dynamics

Historical revolutions illustrate variable interactions

Abstract

In this paper, we first review some basic concepts associated with a model for social interaction previously proposed by us. Each agent is seen as an array of variables that can be found in different states. The agents are then allowed to interact and form groups based on their variables. We discuss how spin-glass type physics may be appropriate for our model. Several types of variables and costs associated with flipping the variables are discussed. Then some simple graphs are presented to understand the formation of various levels of identities within social clusters. In the end, we analyze events from the French revolution and the Russian revolution to to understand how different variables and identities interact within a hierarchical social structure.