The handbook of rational choice social research [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Rafael Wittek, Tom A.B. Snijders, and Victor Nee

• Pubblicazione: Stanford, California, : Stanford Social Sciences, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (625 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.01
• Soggetto topico: Rational choice theory; Social choice
• Altri autori: WittekRafael <1965-> SnijdersT. A. B NeeVictor <1945->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Rational Choice Social Research - Rafael Wittek, Tom A. B. Snijders, and Victor Nee; Part I: Rationality and Decision-making; 1. Rationality, Social Preferences, and Strategic Decision-making from a Behavioral Economics Perspective - Simon Gächter; 2. Social Rationality, Self-Regulation, and Well-Being: The Regulatory Significance of Needs, Goals, and the Self - Siegwart Lindenberg; 3. Rational Choice Research on Social Dilemmas: Embeddedness Effects on Trust - Vincent Buskens and Werner Raub ; 4. Modeling Collective Decision-making - Frans N. Stokman, Jelle Van der Knoop, and Reinier C. H. Van OostenPart II: Networks and Inequality; 5. Social Exchange, Power, and Inequality in Networks - Karen S. Cook and Coye Cheshire; 6. Social Capital - Henk Flap and Beate Völker; 7. Network Dynamics - Tom A. B. Snijders; Part III: Communities and Cohesion; 8. Rational Choice Research in Criminology: A Multi-Level Framework - Ross L. Matsueda; 9. Secularization: Theoretical Controversies Generating Empirical Research - Nan Dirk De Graaf ; 10. Assimilation as Rational Action in Contexts Defined by Institutions and Boundaries - Victor Nee and Richard Alba Part IV: States and Conflicts; 11. Terrorism and the State - Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca; 12. Choosing War: State Decisions to Initiate and End Wars and Observe the Peace Afterward - James D. Morrow; 13. Rational Choice Approaches to State-Making - Edgar Kiser and Erin Powers; Part V: Markets and Organizations; 14. Market Design and Market Failure - Carlos Cañón, Guido Friebel, and Paul Seabright; 15. Organizational Governance - Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein ; 16. Rational Choice and Organizational Change - Rafael Wittek and Arjen Van Witteloostuijn Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research offers the first comprehensive overview of how the rational choice paradigm can inform empirical research within the social sciences. This landmark collection highlights successful empirical applications across a broad array of disciplines, including sociology, political science, economics, history, and psychology.Taking on issues ranging from financial markets and terrorism to immigration, race relations, and emotions, and a huge variety of other phenomena, rational choice proves a useful tool for theory- driven social research
• Titolo autorizzato: The handbook of rational choice social research
• ISBN: 0-8047-8550-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792186003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II