Rational choice theory
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Rational choice theory
(Schools of thought in sociology / series editor, John Urry, 8)(An Elgar reference collection)
E. Elgar, c1991
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
'Rational Choice Theory is a flourishing branch of economic sociology.'Modern sociological theory has to a considerable degree been fashioned in reaction to assumptions about human rationality. This important volume argues in favour of re-establishing rather relaxed assumptions of rationality as a basis for building theory. Although such theories often fail, they prove to be more successful in building predictive and deductive models of human affairs than any competing theoretical framework.
The volume includes important and seminal articles drawn from economics, game theory, utility theory and finds application in the Marxist theory of class, group theory, organization theory and the theory of power relations.
This landmark book will be an essential reference companion for any serious student or researcher in modern sociological theory.
Table of Contents
Part I - Structuralism: Social Structures
E. Durkheim and M. Mauss (1963), 'Primitive Classification'
D. Lockwood (1964), 'Social Integration and System Integration'
E. Balibar (1970), 'From Periodization to the Modes of Production'
G.A. Cohen (1982), 'Functional Explanation, Consequence Explanation and Marxism'
Part II - Semiotic Structures
R. Barthes (1972), 'Myth Today'
M. Foucault (1971), 'Orders of Discourse'
E. Said (1974), 'An Ethics of Language'
J. Mitchell (1982), 'Introduction - I, to Idem and J. Rose (eds.), Feminine Sexuality, Jacques Lacan and the Ecole Freudienne'
Part III - Post-Structuralism
U. Eco (1979), 'Peirce and the Semiotic Foundations of Openness: Signs as Texts and Texts as Signs'
R. Rorty (1978), 'Philosophy as a Kind of Writing: An Essay on Derrida'
D. Carroll (1982), 'Disruptive Discourse and Critical Power: The
Conditions of Archaeology and Genealogy'
H. Cixous (1976), 'The Laugh of the Medusa'
Part IV - Post-Modernism: The Classical Conception
G. Deleuze and F. Guattari (1984), 'Psychoanalysis and Capitalism'
P. Dews, 'The Letter and the Line: Discourse and its Other in Lyotard'
D. Bell (1976), 'The Disjunctions of Cultural Discourse'
M. Poster (1981), 'Technology and Culture in Habermas and Baudrillard'
A. Gutmann, 'Communitarian Critics of Liberalism'
Part V - Modernity: The Alternative Critique
M. Foucault (1987), 'Technologies of the Self'
N. Luhmann (1989), 'Ecological Communication'
M. Berman (1983), 'Modernism in New York'
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