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Rational Choice or Sacred Contagion?: 'Rationality', 'Non-rationality' and Religion.
- Source :
- Social Compass; Jun2000, Vol. 47 Issue 2, p273, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2000
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Abstract
- Drawing from the utilitarian tradition of economics to propose the leanest formal theoretical models for sociology, 'rational choice theory' rejects the Durkheimian interest in society as a reality transcendent of the individual in favour of a revitalization of individualist and rationalist conceptualizations of social order... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00377686
- Volume :
- 47
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Social Compass
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 6006640
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/003776800047002009