Choice, Rationality, and Social Theory

by Barry Hindess

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138782254
• ISBN13: 9781138782259
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"