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Rational choice theory : resisting colonization

Title
Rational choice theory : resisting colonization / edited by Margaret S. Archer and Jonathon Q. Tritter.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Archer, Margaret S. (Margaret Scotford)
  • Tritter, Jonathan Q., 1965-
Description
xii, 257 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Rational Choice Theory is the first book length critique of this theory, dominant in sociology outside the UK and now making in roads in the UK, and increasingly influential in other disciplines. This controversial volume argues that the theory is an inadequate way in which to evaluate decision making inadequate in terms of: * the individuals who make the decisions * the process by which decisions get made * the context within which decisions get made. The critique focuses on the four assumptions which are the bedrock of rational choice; rationality, individualism, process and aggregation and draws on a wide range of social issues, including race, marriage, health and education.
Series Statement
Critical realism--interventions
Uniform Title
Critical realism--interventions.
Subject
  • Rational choice theory
  • Rational Choice
  • Soziologie
  • Rationele keuze
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-248) and indexes.
Contents
1. Introduction / Margaret S. Archer and Jonathan Q. Tritter -- pt. I. Rationality -- 2. The bird in hand: rational choice -- the default mode of social theorizing / Peter Wagner -- 3. Homo economicus, Homo sociologicus and Homo sentiens / Margaret S. Archer -- 4. Is rational choice theory 'unreasonable'? The neglected emotions / Simon J. Williams -- pt. II. Individualism -- 5. Social theory and the underclass: social realism or rational choice individualism? / Justin Cruickshank -- 6. (Ir)rational choice: a multidimensional approach to choice and constraint in decisions about marriage, divorce and remarriage / Kay Peggs and Richard Lampard -- 7. Switching allegiances: decisions by schools to 'opt out' to self-management / Jonathan Q. Tritter -- 8. Rational choice or 'Hobson's choice'? Intention and constraint in UK higher education / Andrew Parker -- pt. III. Temporality -- 9. 'I do': a theoretical critique of Becker's rational choice approach to marriage decisions / Ian Procter -- 10. Decision-making as a process over time: the careers of home-located cultural workers / Carol Wolkowitz -- 11. The decision to commit a crime against humanity / Robert Fine and David Hirsh -- 12. 'Race', ethnicity and housing decisions: rational choice theory and the choice-constraints debate / Peter Ratcliffe -- 13. 'When the battle's lost and won' / James A. Beckford.
ISBN
  • 0415242711
  • 9780415242714
  • 041524272X
  • 9780415242721
LCCN
  • 00059244
  • 9780415242721
OCLC
  • ocm44713283
  • 44713283
  • SCSB-8799307
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library