Is Rational Choice Theory All of Social Science? [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Lichbach Mark I
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| Titolo: |
Is Rational Choice Theory All of Social Science? [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 301/.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Electronic books. -- local |
| Rational choice theory | |
| Social choice | |
| Sociology & Social History | |
| Social Change | |
| Social Sciences | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; 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 |
| 3.2. 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 | |
| 5.3. 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 | |
| 8.3. 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A timely examination of the current ""paradigm wars"" in political science |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Is Rational Choice Theory All of Social Science |
| ISBN: | 1-282-44470-0 |
| 9786612444708 | |
| 0-472-02485-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780703503321 |
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