MODEL SOCIAL SYSTEM DESIGN, ODD PROTOCOL, DATA SET AND SIMULATION CODE

Abstract

Social exclusion is one of the greatest challenges facing today's societies and especially the group under study. This type of exclusion goes beyond poverty, to the extent that it can be considered as a kind of social and individual catastrophe, since this phenomenon of social exclusion causes damage of great impact on the people affected and on their environment. After all, social exclusion is a set of factors that prevent well-being, the full enjoyment of life and increases unhappiness. In this work, agent-based simulation will be used. These tools allow us to study social systems where inequality emerges from local interactions, avoiding homogeneity assumptions typical of statistical models. Our research uses these models to study the processes of social exclusion in people with deafblindness and to search for elements that help us to understand some element of this social phenomenon. In our research, we find the relevance of institutionalisation in the phenomenon of exclusion of this group, the importance of critical thresholds in this exclusion process, biopolitics as an operative social mechanism that fosters structural vulnerability and intersectionality. These elements establish a plausible explanatory framework that allows a better understanding of the phenomenon of social exclusion in people with deafblindness.