Diversity and Community Can Coexist.
We examine the (in)compatibility of diversity and sense of community by means of agent-based models based on the well-known Schelling model of residential segregation and Axelrod model of cultural dissemination. We find that diversity and highly clustered social networks, on the assumptions of socia...
| Published in: | American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 57; no. 1/2; pp. 243 - 255 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2016
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