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Strategic uncertainty, coordination failure and emergence: A game theory study on agency‐structure interactions
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour ( IF 1.733 ) Pub Date : 2019-05-23 , DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.12215
Yi Yang 1 , Lin Liu
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In the social sciences there is a long standing debate over the primacy of structure or agency in shaping human behavior. Structurationists like Giddens think of individuals' agency and collective features as two sides of the same coin while emergentists including Archer and Elder‐Vass claim that structurationists are blurring an important ontological distinction——they argue for effective social analysis, we should think of structures and individuals as different things because emergence happens when the properties of the collective are not reducible to the properties of the parts that constitute them. This paper contributes to the agency‐structure debate by showing how production and reproduction of emergent properties of social groups sharing same normative commitments (norm circles) can be empirically studied using two behavioral game theory experiments, adding a previously neglected insight that strategic uncertainty can lead to coordination failures of individual behaviors within norm circles, manifested as unintended outcomes of interdependent actions that are difficult to predict. Here the synchronic relation between the unpredictable collective outcomes of each game round and agential reactions of the participants to them defines emergence——the previous outcomes are diachronic inputs but they appear in the new outcome only through their effects on the individual decisions.

中文翻译:

战略不确定性,协调失败和突发事件:代理结构互动的博弈研究

在社会科学领域,关于结构或机构在塑造人类行为中的首要地位一直存在着长期的争论。吉登斯(Giddens)等结构主义者将个人的代理和集体特征视为同一枚硬币的两个方面,而包括阿切尔(Archer)和埃尔德·瓦斯(Elder-Vass)在内的新兴主义者则声称结构主义者正在模糊重要的本体论区分-他们主张进行有效的社会分析,我们应该考虑结构和因素。个体是不同的事物,因为当集体的属性无法还原为构成它们的部分的属性时,就会出现出现。本文通过展示如何使用两个行为博弈理论实验来对具有相同规范承诺(规范圈)的社会群体的新兴属性的生产和再生产进行实证研究,从而为代理结构辩论做出了贡献,并加入了先前被忽略的战略不确定性可以导致的洞察力规范圈内个体行为的协调失败,表现为难以预测的相互依存行动的意想不到的结果。在此,每个游戏回合的不可预测的集体结果与参与者对他们的代理反应之间的共时关系定义了出现-先前的结果是历时性的输入,但仅通过其对单个决策的影响,它们才出现在新的结果中。增加了以前被忽视的洞见,即战略不确定性可能导致规范圈内单个行为的协调失败,表现为难以预测的相互依赖的行为的意外结果。在此,每个游戏回合的不可预测的集体结果与参与者对他们的代理反应之间的共时关系定义了出现-先前的结果是历时性的输入,但仅通过其对单个决策的影响,它们才出现在新的结果中。增加了以前被忽视的洞见,即战略不确定性可能导致规范圈内单个行为的协调失败,表现为难以预测的相互依赖的行为的意外结果。在此,每个游戏回合的不可预测的集体结果与参与者对他们的代理反应之间的共时关系定义了出现-先前的结果是历时性的输入,但仅通过其对单个决策的影响,它们才出现在新的结果中。
更新日期:2019-05-23
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