1st Edition
Choice, Rationality and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory)
By Barry Hindess
Copyright 1988
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
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Choice, Rationality and Social Theory is a powerful rebuttal of the remarkably influential theories underlying 'rational choice analysis'. Rational choice analysis maintains that social life is principally to be explained as the outcome of rational choices on the part of individual actors. Adherents of this view include not only philosophers, political scientists and sociologists, but also... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Rational Choice Approach to Social Behaviour 3. Rationality, Egoism and Social Atomism 4. Models of the Actor 5. Rationality, Action and Deliberation 6. Individualism and Social Structure
Biography
Barry Hindess
