An Experimental Analysis of Network Segregation and Intergroup Conflict

Károly Takács

doi:10.1556/revsoc.11.2005.1.1

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Review of Sociology

Volume/Issue:: Volume 11: Issue 1

An Experimental Analysis of Network Segregation and Intergroup Conflict

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Károly Takács

Károly Takács Corvinus University, Department of Sociology and Social Policy Budapest, Fővám tér 8. H-1093

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Pages:: 5–34

Online Publication Date:: 22 Jul 2005

Publication Date:: 01 Jun 2005

Article Category:: Journal Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/revsoc.11.2005.1.1

Keywords:: segregation; segregation; team games; social control; intergroup conflict; minimal contact

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Dense in-group and scarce out-group relations (network segregation) often support the emergence of conflicts between groups. A key underlying mechanism is social control that helps to overcome the collective action problem within groups, but contributes to harmful conflicts among them in segregated settings. In this study, a new experimental design is introduced to test whether internalized social control affects contribution decisions in intergroup-related collective action. Subjects played single-shot Intergroup Public Good games in two groups of five each without communication. Subjects were connected via computers and connection patterns were manipulated to detect forms of social control that are activated conditional on expectations and on the composition of the artificially created ego-network. Results confirm the influence of behavioral confirmation and the conditional impact of internalized traitor and selective incentives. As an aggregated consequence of these social control effects, harmful intergroup outcomes were least likely when members of the groups were arranged in a mixed network. JEL classification: C91; C92; D74; H41; Z13

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Review of Sociology

Print ISSN:: 1417-8648

Online ISSN:: 1588-2845

Review of Sociology
Language	English
Year of Foundation	2000
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