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1 online resource (viii, 344 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-320) and index. |
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Success and Failure of Rational Choice -- Assumptions of the Rational Choice Approach -- Strengths of Conventional Rational Choice -- Weaknesses of Conventional Rational Choice -- Chapter Structure of This Book -- Alternatives to Conventional Rational Choice: A Survey -- Structural Assumptions and Models -- Assumptions about Decision Making -- Preference and Belief Assumptions -- A General Model of Preference and Belief Formation -- An Identity Coherence Model of Preference and Belief Formation -- Assumptions of the Model -- Basic Implications of the Model -- Preference and Belief Change -- Rewards and Preference and Belief Change -- Implications for Dynamic Choice -- Implications for Collective Choice -- Plan for the Following Chapters -- Proofs of Theorems -- Ideology Formation and Policy Choice in Ex-Colonies -- Theories of Policy Formation -- Conventional Model of the State -- Variations on the Conventional Model of the State -- An Identity Formation Theory of Oppositional Ideology Formation and Policy -- A Statistical Analysis of Economic Intervention -- Origins of Ethnic Identity and Collective Action -- Rationalist Theories of Ethnic Collective Action -- A Coherence-Rational Choice Theory of Ethnic Group Formation -- Structural Change, Cultural Change, and Civic Violence -- Theories of Tradition and Modernity -- An Coherence Rational Choice Theory of Structural Change, Altruism, and Collective Action -- Modifying the Assumptions of the Model -- Justifications for the Coherence Model. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
Annotation Social science research is fragmented by the widely differing and seemingly contradictory approaches used by the different disciplines of the social sciences to explain human action. Attempts at integrating different social science approaches to explain action have often been frustrated by the difficulty of incorporating cultural assumptions into rational choice theories without robbing them of their generality or making them too vague for predictions. Another problem has been the major disagreements among cultural theorists regarding the ways in which culture affects preferences and beliefs. This book provides a general model of preference and belief formation, addressing the largest unresolved issue in rational choice theories of action. It attempts to play a bridging role between these approaches by augmenting and modifying the main ideas of the "rational choice" model to make it more compatible with empirical findings in other fields. The resulting model is used to analyze three major unresolved issues in the developing world: the sources of a government's economic ideology, the origins of ethnic group boundaries, and the relationship between modernization and violence. Addressing theoretical problems that cut across numerous disciplines, this work will be of interest to a diversity of theoretically-minded scholars. Sun-Ki Chai is Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rational choice theory.
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Rational choice theory. |
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Group identity.
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Group identity. |
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Identity (Psychology)
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Identity (Psychology) |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Chai, Sun-Ki. Choosing an identity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, ©2001 9780472107018 (DLC) 00060741 (OCoLC)44681864 |
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9780472023950 (electronic book) |
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0472023950 (electronic book) |
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0472107011 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780472107018 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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