Is it possible to control the spread of a globalized culture?
| dc.creator | Boccara, Nino | |
| dc.date | 2006-11-17 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T07:33:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T07:33:37Z | |
| dc.description | We study a model describing the spread of a globalized culture in a population of individuals localized at the nodes of a social network. The influence of this globalized culture, assumed to be foreign to the local culture, is measured by a probability to convince each individual to adopt its cultural traits. This probability depends upon the degree s--a real between 0 and 1--of ``wise'' skepticism characterizing the personality of each individual and a parameter a representing the resistance of the society as a whole to the spread of the foreign cultural traits. A greater a indicates a stronger resistance of the local culture to globalization. On the other hand, each individual interacts with a random number of other individuals--her cultural neighborhood--uniformly distributed between 1 and a maximum value. The probability distribution of an individual to belong to the cultural neighborhood of another individual has a power-law behavior. A small fraction r of the total population belonging to the tail of this probability distribution have an s-value equal to 1. They represent the most conservative individuals firmly attached to their local culture. | |
| dc.description | 13 pages, 5 figures, invited paper at Automata 2005, Gdansk, Poland | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0611035 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0611035 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/119520 | |
| dc.subject | Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems | |
| dc.title | Is it possible to control the spread of a globalized culture? | |
| dc.type | text |