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Rational choice theory : resisting colonisation / edited by Jonathon Q. Tritter and Margaret S. Archer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical realism--interventionsPublisher: London : Routledge, 2000Description: xii, 257p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415242711 (hbk) :
  • 041524272X (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.01 21
Contents:
List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Pt. I. Rationality -- 2. The bird in hand: rational choice - the default mode of social theorizing -- 3. Homo economicus, Homo sociologicus and Homo sentiens -- 4. Is rational choice theory 'unreasonable'? The neglected emotions -- Pt. II. Individualism -- 5. Social theory and the underclass: social realism or rational choice individualism? -- 6. (Ir)rational choice: a multidimensional approach to choice and constraint in decisions about marriage, divorce and remarriage -- 7. Switching allegiances: decisions by schools to 'opt out' to self-management -- 8. Rational choice or 'Hobson's choice'? Intention and constraint in UK higher education -- Pt. III. Temporality -- 9. 'I do': a theoretical critique of Becker's rational choice approach to marriage decisions -- 10. Decision-making as a process over time: the careers of home-located cultural workers -- 11. The decision to commit a crime against humanity -- 12. 'Race', ethnicity and housing decisions: rational choice theory and the choice-constraints debate -- Conclusion -- 13. 'When the battle's lost and won' -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Pt. I. Rationality -- 2. The bird in hand: rational choice - the default mode of social theorizing -- 3. Homo economicus, Homo sociologicus and Homo sentiens -- 4. Is rational choice theory 'unreasonable'? The neglected emotions -- Pt. II. Individualism -- 5. Social theory and the underclass: social realism or rational choice individualism? -- 6. (Ir)rational choice: a multidimensional approach to choice and constraint in decisions about marriage, divorce and remarriage -- 7. Switching allegiances: decisions by schools to 'opt out' to self-management -- 8. Rational choice or 'Hobson's choice'? Intention and constraint in UK higher education -- Pt. III. Temporality -- 9. 'I do': a theoretical critique of Becker's rational choice approach to marriage decisions -- 10. Decision-making as a process over time: the careers of home-located cultural workers -- 11. The decision to commit a crime against humanity -- 12. 'Race', ethnicity and housing decisions: rational choice theory and the choice-constraints debate -- Conclusion -- 13. 'When the battle's lost and won' -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

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