ADVANCES IN E-STATE STRUCTURALISM - FURTHER-STUDIES IN DOMINANCE STRUCTURE FORMATION

E-state structuralism is a theoretical method that analyzes the formation and dissolution of network ties by merging the abstract core of expectation states theory with social network analysis. The method has been used to model dominance structure formation in infra-human populations. The work reported in this paper retains the specific problem focus on dominance while generalizing E-state structuralism in two directions. First, we incorporate potential parallelism in attack processes, and second, we allow for non-complementarity in the formation of orientational dominance/deference E-states. We analyze the effects of both these generalizations on the developments of stable forms of dominance structures. We find that under the more general assumptions, stable structures include various forms of coalitions in addition to the usual cycles and hierarchies. We view this generalized version of E-state structuralism as suggestive of ways to model the development of social structure in both infra-human and human populations.