Review of Sociology
Volume/Issue:
Volume 9: Issue 2
Modeling Intergroup Conflict As Strategic Interactions
Author:
Károly Takács Corvinus University, Department of Sociology and Social Policy Budapest, Fővám tér 8. H-1093

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Pages:
113–137
Online Publication Date:
22 Jul 2005
Publication Date:
01 Dec 2003
Article Category:
Journal Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/revsoc.9.2003.2.5
Keywords:
Intergroup conflict; Intergroup conflict; team games; structural embeddedness; social networks; social control; segregation.
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Conflicts between groups are among the central research problems in the social sciences. Several theoretical models have been proposed previously to understand and explain their causes, emergence, and dynamics. None of these models, however, captured the unintended nature of these conflicts as a result of individual actions and the structural embeddedness of actions at the same time. This study proposes such a framework as it integrates two-level models of intergroup relation known as team games and models of dyadic social control mechanisms. The proposed model demonstrates why and under what structural conditions can intergroup conflicts be considered as social dilemmas. Model predictions can be derived about the relation between certain properties of the social network and likelihood of intergroup conflict. In particular, the model provides an explanation why intergroup conflicts are often promoted by segregation and also describes some conditions under which the segregation effect becomes weaker.

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Review of Sociology
Print ISSN:
1417-8648
Online ISSN:
1588-2845

Review of Sociology
Language English
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Foundation		 2000
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Programme		 ceased
Founder A Magyar Szociológiai Társaság -- Hungarian Sociological Association
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Address		 H-1097 Budapest, Hungary Tóth Kálmán u.4.
Publisher Akadémiai Kiadó
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Publisher		 Chief Executive Officer, Akadémiai Kiadó
ISSN 1417-8648 (Print)
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