Simulations of the Simmel effect are performed for agents in a scale-free social network. The social hierarchy of an agent is determined by the degree of her node. Particular features, once selected by a highly connected agent, became common in lower class but soon fall out of fashion and extinct. Numerical results reflect the dynamics of frequency of American babies names in 1880-2011.

The article advances a type of relational sociology that is sensitive to the continually ongoing formation beings and relations over course time. While dynamic fluid character has been stressed by other scholars as well, suggests drawing from work Simmel anthropologist Tim Ingold attend coming-into-being change relations, we need alter very grammar considering relations: instead fathoming them ...