Social order results from a complex interaction of individual actions, institutional structures, and cultural norms. But just how do they relate to one another, and is any one factor predominant? The answers that social science has provided reflect the competing paradigms of the rationalist, structuralist, and culturalist approaches.
In this innovative book, two prominent social scientists coming from competing research traditions attempt to chart a course between them, drawing on their respective strengths to present a new model based on a classificatory scheme of...
Social order results from a complex interaction of individual actions, institutional structures, and cultural norms. But just how do they relate to...
Advocates of rational choice theory in political science have been perceived by their critics as attempting to establish an intellectual hegemony in contemporary social science, to the detriment of alternative methods of research. The debate has gained a nonacademic audience, hitting the pages of the New York Times and the New Republic. In the academy, the antagonists have expressed their views in books, journal articles, and at professional conferences. Mark I. Lichbach addresses the question of the place of rational choice theory in the social sciences in general and in political science...
Advocates of rational choice theory in political science have been perceived by their critics as attempting to establish an intellectual hegemony in c...
This book explores the epistemology and the methodology of political knowledge and social inquiry: what can we know, and how do we know? Contributing authors offer answers, addressing the purpose and methods of research and analyzing concepts, including the relationship of theory and evidence and the importance of medicine to social science.
This book explores the epistemology and the methodology of political knowledge and social inquiry: what can we know, and how do we know? Contributing ...
Since the mid 1960s, theorists have elaborated over two dozen different solutions to the collection action problem. During much of this same period, students of conflict have explored many questions about protest and rebellion. The Rebel's Dilemma examines what happens when one brings the full richness of collective action theories to bear on the many complex problems of collective dissent. ." . . a significant contribution to the understanding of collective behavior, protest, and rebellion." --Choice "The book is interesting and thought-provoking, and its insights extend...
Since the mid 1960s, theorists have elaborated over two dozen different solutions to the collection action problem. During much of this same period, s...
