Alliance Formation

HALLPIKE, CHRISTOPHER R, 2003. » Absolutismus und Konstruktivismus. Einige Überlegungen zur Entstehung von Ordnungsmustern «. Wenzel, Ulrich et al.(Hg.). Subjekte und Gesellschaft. Zur Konstitution von Sozialität. Weilerswist: Velbrück. 2003. P. 170–197. HALLPIKE, Christopher Robert, 1970. The principles of alliance formation between Konso towns. Man. 1970. Vol. 5, no. 2, p. 258–280.

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Some segregation results from the practices of organizations, some from specialized communication systems, some from correlation with a variable that is non‐random; and some results from the interplay of individual Choices. This is an abstract study of the interactive dynamics of discriminatory individual choices. One model is a simulation in which individual members of two recognizable groups distribute themselves in neighborhoods defined by reference to their own locations. A second model is analytic and deals with compartmented space. …

Colorado offers school choice through Open Enrollment allowing parents to enroll their children in schools other than those assigned by geographic boundaries. One side effect of open enrollment in Boulder County has been Stratification (think Segregation only by Choice instead of by legal mandate). Columbine is the most stratified elementary school in the City of Boulder and one of the most stratified in the County.

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