LEADER 04099nam 22006493u 450 001 9910780703503321 005 20230207231013.0 010 $a1-282-44470-0 010 $a9786612444708 010 $a0-472-02485-X 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006843 035 $a(EBL)3414583 035 $a(OCoLC)824100080 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000421154 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11252126 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000421154 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10411839 035 $a(PQKB)11724682 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3414583 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006843 100 $a20160815d2009|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIs Rational Choice Theory All of Social Science?$b[electronic resource] 210 $aAnn Arbor $cUniversity of Michigan Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-472-06819-9 327 $aContents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Foils and Stories; 1. Three Approaches to Foils; 1.1. Rational Choice Theory and Its Foils; 1.2. Social Scientific Theories and Their Foils; 1.3. Foils in the Academy; 1.4. My Hope for This Book; 2. Three Types of Stories; 2.1. Deep Stories; 2.2. Exemplar Theorists; 2.3. Ideal Types; 2.4. The Rational Reconstruction of Research Programs; 2.5. The Trouble with Stories: Thin and Thick Research Communities; 2.6. Typologies and Genealogies; Part II. The Rationalist Challenge; 3. Rational/Social Choice Theory; 3.1. Thin and Thick Rationalists 327 $a3.2. Rationalist Ontology3.3. Rationalist Methodology; 4. Rationalism and Hegemony; 4.1. Why Rationalist Social Science Tends toward Hegemony; 4.2. The Result: Theoretical Synthesis and Empirical Conciliation; 4.3. Countertendencies: How Rationalist Social Science Defines Its Baselines and Boundaries; 4.4. Countertendencies: Why Rationalist Social Science Lowers Its Positivistic Pretensions; 4.5. Modest Rational Choice Theory; Part III. The Alternatives to Rationalist Hegemony; 5. Cultural/Interpretive Theory; 5.1. Thin and Thick Culturalists; 5.2. Culturalist Ontology 327 $a5.3. Culturalist Methodology5.4. Culturalist Lacunae; 6. Structural/Institutional Theory; 6.1. Thin and Thick Structuralists; 6.2. Structuralist Ontology; 6.3. Structuralist Methodology; 6.4. Structuralist Lacunae; Part IV. The Debate about the Debate; 7. The Need for Synthesis: Structure and Action; 7.1. For Synthesis; 7.2. Types of Syntheses; 7.3. Structure/Institution and Action/Process; 7.4. Methodological Synthesis: The Causal and the Interpretive; 7.5. The Importance of Synthesis; 8. The Need for Analysis: Models and Foils; 8.1. For Models and Foils; 8.2. Against Synthesis 327 $a8.3. Conclusion: Synthesis and AnalysisPart V. The Philosophy of Science; 9. The General and the Particular; 9.1. The Research Programs; 9.2. Weber's Approach; 9.3. The General and the Particular in the Social Sciences; 10. Models and Foils: A Modest Philosophy of Science for Social Science; 10.1. Theory; 10.2. Evidence; 10.3. Theory and Evidence; 10.4. Evaluation; 10.5. How a Modest Rationalist Evaluates Theory and Evidence; Notes; References; Index 330 $aA timely examination of the current ""paradigm wars"" in political science 606 $aElectronic books. -- local 606 $aRational choice theory 606 $aSocial choice 606 $aSociology & Social History$2HILCC 606 $aSocial Change$2HILCC 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 615 4$aElectronic books. -- local. 615 4$aRational choice theory. 615 4$aSocial choice. 615 7$aSociology & Social History 615 7$aSocial Change 615 7$aSocial Sciences 676 $a301/.01 700 $aLichbach$b Mark I$01563585 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780703503321 996 $aIs Rational Choice Theory All of Social Science$93832105 997 $aUNINA