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Choice, Rationality and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory) (Paperback)
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Choice, Rationality and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory) (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
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Choice, Rationality and Social Theory is a powerful rebuttal of the
remarkably influential theories underlying 'rational choice
analysis'. Rational choice analysis maintains that social life is
principally to be explained as the outcome of rational choices on
the part of individual actors. Adherents of this view include not
only philosophers, political scientists and sociologists, but also
prominent politicians in Western governments - notably of the
United Kingdom and the United States. Rational choice analysis is
said to be rigorous, capable of great technical sophistication, and
able to generate powerful explanations on the basis of a few,
relatively simple theoretical assumptions. Barry Hindess argues
that the theory is seriously deficient, first, because there are
important actors in the modern world other than human individuals,
and second, because it says nothing about those processes of
deliberation that play an important part in actors' decisions. The
use of highly questionable assumptions about actors and their
rationality has the effect of closing off important areas of
intellectual inquiry and ignoring the reality of certain forms of
thought and the social conditions on which they depend. These
points are established through detailed examination of the concepts
of the actor and of rationality - providing an overall argument
that constitutes a serious challenge to any adherent of rational
choice analysis.
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