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   Rational Choice Theory and Large Scale Data Analysis » Read Now

   by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Gerald Prein. 324 pgs.

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   Though rational-choice theory is well-established in sociology & economics, its influence on quantitative empirical sociology is limited. This book examines why there is hardly a link between the two & how they could be more integrated in the future.
   
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   Preferences, Institutions and Rational Choice » Read Now

   by Keith Dowding, Desmond King. 292 pgs.

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   Rational choice theory has gained considerable influence in politics and sociology over the past thirty years; the use of rational choice methods has proliferated in all areas of social inquiry. From the early days of formal proofs and unrealistic assumptions, rational choice is increasingly being...

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   Rational choice theory has gained considerable influence in politics and sociology over the past thirty years; the use of rational choice methods has proliferated in all areas of social inquiry. From the early days of formal proofs and unrealistic assumptions, rational choice is increasingly being used to model authentic situations and institutions. The collection of essays from leading British writers in the rational choice paradigm concentrates upon the two key aspects of rational choice: the role of preferences and institutions.

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   Sociological Rational Choice Theory, in Annual Review of Sociology » Read Now

   by Michael Hechter, Satoshi Kanazawa. 23 pgs.

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   Choice and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice Theory » Read Now

   by Steve Bruce. 247 pgs.

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   The orthodox view is that the democracies of the western world have become increasingly secular over the twentieth century. Fewer and fewer people have chosen to believe, and the church has declined markedly as religion has changed from being part of an identity ascribed at birth to being a matter...

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   The orthodox view is that the democracies of the western world have become increasingly secular over the twentieth century. Fewer and fewer people have chosen to believe, and the church has declined markedly as religion has changed from being part of an identity ascribed at birth to being a matter of personal choice. Choice and Religion provides a detailed critique of the 'rational choice' approach to religion to demonstrate that industrialisation has secularised the western world and that diversity, far from making religion more popular by allowing individuals to maximize their returns, undermines it. The claim that diversity and competition promote religion is refuted with evidence from a wide variety of western societies. Bruce examine the Nordic countries and the ex-communist states of eastern Europe to explore the consequences of different sorts of state regulation, and to show that ethnicity is a more powerful determinate of religious change than market structures. Where religion matters, it is not because individuals are maximising their returns, it is because it defines group identity and is heavily implicated in social conflict.

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   Varieties of Social Explanation: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Science (Chap. 3 "Rational Choice Theory") » Read Now

   by Daniel Little. 258 pgs.

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   ...38 3 RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY 39 Aggregative...Materialism and Rational Choice Theory , 127 Marxism...human agency, which both rational choice theory and interpretive social...
   
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   Political Science: The State of the Discipline II (Chap. 4 "Formal Rational Choice Theory: A Cumulative Science of Politics") » Read Now

   by Ada W. Finifter. 538 pgs.

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   ...volume of Political Theory which featured a symposium...question of what it may be rational to hold true can vary...approach to political theory, at least two...
   
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   The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches and Interpretations (Chap. 9 "Rational Choice Theory and the Study of American Politics") » Read Now

   by Lawrence C. Dodd, Calvin Jillson. 451 pgs.

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   ...with a lot of choice about what they...this is what theory is all about...of order, or rationality, or of some...contemporary rational choice theory and its...
   
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   Philosophy of Social Science (Chap. 3 "From Behaviorism to Rational Choice, and Back") » Read Now

   by Alexander Rosenberg. 242 pgs.

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   ...Psychology Formalized: The Theory of Rational Choice , 74 The...explaining action in terms of "rational choice theory," according to which individual...of refinement in...
   
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   Human Nature and the Limits of Science (Chap. 6 "Rational Choice Theory") » Read Now

   by John Dupre. 202 pgs.

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    Rethinking Religious Social Action: What Is "Rational" about Rational-Choice Theory?, in Sociology of Religion » Read Now

    by James V. Spickard. 17 pgs.

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    ...What is "Rational" About Rational-Choice Theory? James V. Spickard...Iannaccone 1993) who emphasize a rational-choice theory of human action that they...institutions. The...
    
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    Rational Choice Theory and the Evaluation of Public Policy, in Policy Studies Journal » Read Now

    by Max Neiman, Stephen J. Stambough. 17 pgs.

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    ...Rational choice theory and the evaluation of public policy...contexts. The contributions of rational choice theory to the task of evaluating public...there is a kind of...
    
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    Illegal Tobacco Sales to Youth: A View from Rational Choice Theory, in Canadian Journal of Criminology » Read Now

    by William O'Grady, Mark Asbridge, Tom Abernathy. 20 pgs.

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    ...youth: A view from rational choice theory. by William...methodological note, rational choice theory has generally been...Akers, R. 1990 Rational choice, deterrence, and...