Dynamic Models of Segregation¶
Schelling, T. C. (1971). Dynamic Models of Segregation. Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 1(2), 143-186.
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4 citations across 4 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Critical Mass
- Naming critical mass lets practitioners cleanly distinguish a process that merely needs continued pushing from one that carries itself once seeded.
This sourceFoundational treatment of tipping dynamics, distinguishing processes that require continued external pressure from those that, once past a tipping point, carry themselves, and reframing the planning question as locating where that self-sustenance line lies.
- Naming critical mass lets practitioners cleanly distinguish a process that merely needs continued pushing from one that carries itself once seeded.
- Phase Separation
- Sociology and urban geography — Schelling segregation, in which neighbourhoods spontaneously sort by demographic even under mild individual preferences, was an explicit transposition of the phase-separation structure from materials science.
This sourceShows that mild individual same-group preferences produce strong global residential segregation — the explicit transposition of phase-separation logic into sociology.
- Sociology and urban geography — Schelling segregation, in which neighbourhoods spontaneously sort by demographic even under mild individual preferences, was an explicit transposition of the phase-separation structure from materials science.
- Threshold-Driven Order Emergence
This sourceFoundational treatment of tipping and critical-mass dynamics, distinguishing processes that require continued external pressure from those that, once past a threshold, carry themselves and reframing the question as where that self-sustenance line lies.
Mechanisms¶
- Agent-Based or Ensemble Simulation
- Its strength is unique among these siblings: it is the only one that shows a macro equilibrium can arise from heterogeneity and reveals which part of the distribution carries it — much as Schelling's segregation model showed stark macro segregation emerging from only mild individual preferences.
This sourceShows how mild individual preferences in a heterogeneous agent model can generate strong macro-level segregation.
- Its strength is unique among these siblings: it is the only one that shows a macro equilibrium can arise from heterogeneity and reveals which part of the distribution carries it — much as Schelling's segregation model showed stark macro segregation emerging from only mild individual preferences.
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