scholarly journals Familienforschung – Familiensoziologie: Einleitende Bemerkungen

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-147
Author(s):  
Hartmann Tyrell
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
The State ◽  
Family Research ◽  
State Institute ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Sociology ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

In his introductory remarks, the chairman of the Conference on the State of the Art in Family Research – that took place on March 19th and 20th 2006 in Bamberg and was jointly organised by the State Institute for Family Research at the University of Bamberg and the Zeitschrift für Familienforschung (Journal of Family Research) – comments on the relationship between family psychology and family sociology, on the increasing impact of rational-choice theory on family sociology as well as on the debate on stability and change of the overall concept of family during the 20th century that was so vibrant during this conference. The author concludes his remarks by pleading for a decomposition of the concept of the family as an all encompassing unit. Zusammenfassung In diesen einleitenden Bemerkungen nimmt der Moderator der Familienwissenschaftlichen Konferenz Stellung zum Verhältnis zwischen Familienpsychologie und Familiensoziologie, zum wachsenden Einfluss der Rational-Choice-Theorie auf letztere, sowie zur während der Tagung recht lebhaften Debatte über Stabilität und Wandel des Familienleitbildes im 20. Jahrhundert. Abschließend plädiert er für eine Dekomposition des so stark einheitsbetonten Familienbegriff.

scholarly journals Wszędzie dobrze, ale w domu najlepiej. Analiza decyzji dotyczących kontynuacji nauki na studiach drugiego stopnia na podstawie danych rejestrowych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

1970 ◽  
pp. 309-332
Author(s):  
Tomasz Zając Tomasz Zając ◽  
Agata Komendant-Brodowska
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Methodological Individualism ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
The University ◽  
The Bologna Process

The aim of the paper is to analyse decisions of first degree graduates concerning continuation of their education on second-degree programmes. One of the changes introduced by the Bologna process was a division of university programmes for the first-degree (bachelor’s degree) and seconddegree (master’s degree) programmes. As a result, a new educational threshold has appeared in the course of higher education and at that threshold students decide whether to continue education and if so, which university and programme to choose. All choices involve various costs and benefits, both to be experienced immediately, as well as those that students plan to achieve or incur in the future. The article presents data on the decisions regarding the continuation of studies in the context of the assumptions of rational choice theory: methodological individualism and rationality of actors. The analysed data come from registers of the University of Warsaw. The most common decision of first-degree graduates at the University is not to change anything: either the programme or mode of study. This result will be explained in the context of assumptions about the preferences of the students.

Theorizing religion and media in contemporary societies: An account of religious ‘publicization’

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 626-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E.J. Herbert
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Secularization Theory ◽  
Transnational Media ◽  
The Relationship

This article argues that a combination of the rapid development and dissemination of media technologies, the liberalization of national media economies and the growth of transnational media spheres is transforming the relationship between religion, popular culture and politics in contemporary societies in ways not adequately accounted for in existing sociological theories of religion (secularization, neo-secularization and rational choice) and still largely neglected in sociological theories of media and culture. In particular, it points to a series of media enabled social processes (de-differentiation, diasporic intensification and re-enchantment) which mirror and counter processes identified with the declining social significance of religion in secularization theory (differentiation, societalization and rationalization), interrupting their secularizing effects and tending to increase the public presence or distribution of religious symbols and discourses, a process described as religious ‘publicization’. These processes have implications for religious authority, which is reconfigured in a more distributed form but not necessarily diminished, contrary to neo-secularization theory. Furthermore, contrary to rational choice theory, the increased public presence of religion depends not only on competition between religious ‘suppliers’, but also on the work done by religions beyond the narrow religious sphere ascribed by secular modernity to religion, in supposedly secular spheres such as entertainment, politics, law, health and welfare and hence has implications for the relationship between politics and popular culture central to cultural studies.

scholarly journals The dynamics of public support for the king in Yogyakarta

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Pajar Hatma Indra Jaya
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Cluster Technique ◽  
Retrieval Technique ◽  
The People ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Group Interests

The background of this research is the support of the people of Yogyakarta to the sultan to lead Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta. This paper is aimed at examining the relationship between a king and the community in the democracy era. The cases examined specifically in this study were the case of the proposed law of Yogyakarta in the Sutet region, and the ore mining case in Kulonprogo. Research was conducted qualitatively by collecting data through documentation, observation and interview. Informant retrieval technique is done by cluster technique. This research is analyzed by rational choice theory which assumes that people are always trying to optimize the choices that bring benefits (Mallarangeng 2008: 9, Kuper & Kuper 2000: 895). The study had various findings, such that public support of the king could not be explained by the concept of Javanese power and that logical consideration in the form of the interest proximity of each group becomes a concept of public support against the king. When the group interests are closer, they show their support, but, when the gap becomes wider, they readily change their support without fear of karma.

Rational Choice and Political Power

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Dowding
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Structural Explanation ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Relationship

Rational Choice and Political Power is a classic text republished with two new chapters. It critiques the three dimensions of power showing that we can explain everything the dimensions are designed to highlight using the tools of rational choice theory. It argues power is best seen as a property of agents, and can be measured by looking at their relative resources. Breaking down power resources into five abstract categories we can see why groups of individuals can fail to secure their best interests due to the collective action problem. We can also define objective interests in through the lens of collective action. Despite power being seen as a property of agents rational choice models of power provide structural Explanation. The power and luck structure is the relationship in agential resource-holding given agents preferences. The book explains the difference between power and systematic luck – the latter is where groups, including powerful ones – can get what they want without doing anything simply because of their social location in the power and luck structure. The book engages with some feminist critiques of seeing power in rational choice terms and includes some methodological discussion of the relationship of methodological individualism and structuralism and then that the concept of power is essentially contested. This book’s unique interaction with both classical and contemporary debates makes it an essential resource for anyone teaching or studying power in the disciplines of sociology, philosophy, politics or international relations.

Zum Zusammenhang von Sozialisation und ehrenamtlicher Mitarbeit in Sportvereinen – Erste Überlegungen unter Anwendung der Rational-Choice-Theorie / On the relationship between socialization and volunteer work in sports clubs – Initial considerations in the framework of rational choice theory

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Flatau
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Volunteer Work ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Ehrenamtliches Engagement ◽  
The Relationship

ZusammenfassungDer vorliegende Beitrag geht erstens der Frage nach, inwieweit das Phänomen des ehrenamtlichen Engagements in Sportvereinen mit den Grundannahmen der Rational-Choice-Theorie vereinbar ist. Die Entscheidungslogiken werden sowohl auf der Ebene des Vereinsmitgliedes als auch des Vereins analysiert und mathematisch modelliert. In diesem Zusammenhang wird die wichtige Rolle der Sozialisation im Sportverein für ehrenamtliches Engagement beleuchtet und in das Modell integriert.

scholarly journals BOOK REVIEW: HOW INTERNATIONAL LAW WORK A RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-117
Author(s):  
Mursal Maulana
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
State Behavior ◽  
Enforcement Mechanism ◽  
Contemporary Development ◽  
The University ◽  
Affect State

Does international law affect state behavior?. Why would states pay any attention to international law in the absence of coercive enforcement mechanism?. What do we mean when we say international law is “binding”, given that states can almost always to violate it?. These intriguing and philosophical questions raised by the author to make sure that we had grasped at least one answer. If not, we were failed to understand the nature of international law. These question also remains us about traditional debate between proponent and opponent of international law such as Hobbes, Spinoza and Austin. But, in the 21st Century we are not debating or neglecting the existence of international law anymore.Written by Andrew T. Guzman who is recently serving as dean of The University of Southern California Gould School of Law (USC Gould), this book develops a persuasive explanation of why and when international law works by using rational choice perspective. Although previously there are some authors focusing their study on this topic such as Professor Abraham Chayes and Antonia Handler Chayes in their book “The New Sovereignty: Compliance with International Regulatory Agreement” which uses managerial approach in describing the compliance of international law and Professor Thomas Franck in his book “Fairness in International Law and Institution” which explains why states comply with international law by introducing fairness approach, this book offers better perspective in understanding international law in contemporary development by proposing “Rational Choice Theory”. The theory then is developed into “Three Rs of Compliance” (Reputation, Reciprocity and Retaliation). The book tries to explain how international law is able to affect state behavior despite a lack of coercive enforcement mechanism.

A Genealogy of Rational Choice: Rationalism, Elitism, and Democracy

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 749-771 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Maloy
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Empirical Proposition ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Resemblances ◽  
Fin De Siècle

Abstract. Unlike previous methodological debates in political science, the recent rational choice controversy has excluded consideration of normative questions altogether. These can be recovered, in part, through a genealogy of counter-utopian democratic theory which connects modern rational choice theory to the fin-de-siècle sociology of elites via the mediating figure of Schumpeter. The family resemblances include the aspiration toward a pure science of society, the search for a “realistic” theory of democratic politics, and the shading of an empirical proposition about elite domination into a normative celebration. Though democratic theorists have learned much from the counter-utopian tradition generally, both sides of the rational choice controversy have failed to take seriously the elitists' recognition of the ineluctable normative and ideological dimensions of social research.Résumé. Les débats récents sur le choix rationnel, à contre-pied d'autres disputes méthodologiques en science politique, ont exclu les questions normatives. Ces questions peuvent se rétablir, en partie, par l'intermédiaire d'une généalogie contre-utopiste de la théorie démocratique, qui lie la théorie moderne du choix rationnel au retour de la sociologie élitiste de fin de siècle, avec le personnage de Schumpeter comme médiateur. Les ressemblances familiales portent l'aspiration à une science pure de la société, la recherche d'une théorie «réaliste» de la démocratie et la transition d'une proposition empirique sur la domination des élites vers une célébration normative. Bien que les théoriciens démocratiques aient beaucoup appris de la tradition contre-utopiste, aucune des deux parties du débat sur le choix rationnel n'a pris en compte la reconnaissance élitiste des aspects idéologiques inévitables de la recherche sociale.

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