Kansai Sociological Review
Online ISSN : 2423-9518
Print ISSN : 1347-4057
Special Section II “Restitution” of Deductive Sociology
A Model of Discrimination Interaction : Mathematical Sociology as the Core of Deductive Sociology
Hiroshi HAMADA
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2010 Volume 9 Pages 42-51

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In this paper we formalize the interaction between discriminators and those who are discriminated against, in order to make a theoretical linkage between mathematical sociology and fieldwork studies. We use the imitation dynamics of evolutionary game theory and analyze the change of share of strategies in each group, the discriminators and the victims of discrimination. By the analysis of our model, we obtain the following results. First, discrimination will decrease according to the increase of resistance to it. However, depending on the initial state, there will remain players who still choose a discrimination strategy when t→∞, even though players who are discriminated against prefer resistance to discrimination. Second, the more discrimination exists at the initial state, the more discrimination will have decreased at the end of the dynamics.
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