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| Title: | | Modelling Bourdieu: An extension of the Axelrod cultural diffusion model  |
| Authors: | | Trigg, Andrew B. Bertie, Andrew J. Himmelweit, Susan F. |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Open Discussion Papers in Economics, The Open University 68 |
| Abstract: | | The contribution to the social theory of consumption of the late Pierre Bourdieu has been widely recognized, but not fully absorbed by the economics discipline. To address this lacuna, an agent-based model of Bourdieu's social theory is developed by extending Axelrod's cultural diffusion model. Bourdieu's theory is decomposed into two components: a capital effect on social interaction and an innovation effect. Whereas simulations of the capital effect are found to have a key role in the reproduction of economic inequality, by comparing survey and simulation results the innovation effect is shown to provide an insight into how cultural capital is distributed. |
| Subjects: | | Bourdieu habitus cultural capital Axelrod inequality |
| JEL: | | C0 D3 Z1 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Open Discussion Papers in Economics, The Open University
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