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Rational Choice or Sacred Contagion?: 'Rationality', 'Non-rationality' and Religion.

Authors :
Mellor, Philip A.
Source :
Social Compass; Jun2000, Vol. 47 Issue 2, p273, 20p
Publication Year :
2000

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