Secularization and its discontents / Rob Warner. by Warner, Rob

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Of crime & criminality : the use of theory in everyday life / Sally Simpson, editor.

Table of Contents: “…: the role of emotions in a rational choice theory of crime / Jeffrey Bouffard, M. Lyn Exum, and Raymond Paternoster -- Understanding illicit drug use / Paul Mazerolle -- The routine activity approach as a general crime theory / Marcus Felson.…”
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Study Of Educational Politics : the 1994 Commemorative Yearbook Of The Politics Of Education. by Scribner, Jay D.

Table of Contents: “…of the politics of education; The politics of education: from political science to interdisciplinary inquiry; The crucible of democracy: the local arena; State policymaking and school reform: influences and influentials; Politics of education at the federal level; The international arena: the global village; Policy analysis and the study of the politics of education; Rational choice theory and the politics of education: promise and limitations.…”
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Constituents of Matter. by Leahy, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Top/Bottom; A Theory of Everything; Inhabit, from the Latin to Have and Hold; Starstruck; Recurring Dream (3); Recurring Dream (4); A Theory of Making; A Fascination: The College Park Airshow, 1992; Collaboration, from the Latin to Slip Together; Sweet Nothings, Not Whispered; Contract, from the Latin a Drawing Together; A Rational Choice Theory; An Experiment of Violence; Recurring Dream (5); The Stars Don't Dance.…”
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Making Political Science Matter : Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method. by Schram, Sanford F.

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International regimes for the final frontier / M.J. Peterson. by Peterson, M. J., 1949-

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Criminology goes to the movies : crime theory and popular culture / Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown. by Rafter, Nicole Hahn, 1939-, Brown, Michelle, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: taking criminology to the movies -- "For money and a woman" : rational choice theories and double indemnity -- "He's alive!" …”
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Habermas : introduction and analysis / David Ingram. by Ingram, David, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations for Titles of Works by Habermas -- A Public Intellectual Committed to Reason -- Habermas's Defense of Psychoanalytic Social Science -- The Linguistic Turn -- Knowledge and Truth Revisited -- Discourse Ethics -- Law and Democracy Part I: The Foundational Rights -- Law and Democracy Part II: Power and the Clash of Paradigms -- Law and Democracy Part III: Applying the Proceduralist Paradigm -- Law and Democracy Part IV: Social Complexity and a Critical Assessment -- Crisis and Pathology The Future of Democracy in a Global Age -- Postsecular Postscript Modernity and Its Discontents -- Explaining Action -- Understanding Action -- Habermas and Brandom -- Developmental Psychology -- Rational Choice Theory -- Systems Theory -- Index.…”
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Introduction to sociological theory : theorists, concepts, and their applicability to the twenty-first century / Michele Dillon. by Dillon, Michele, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Sociological Theory: A Vibrant Living Tradition -- Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) -- Max Weber (1864-1920) -- American Classics: The Chicago School, Talcott Parsons, and Robert Merton -- Critical Theory: Technology, Culture, and Politics -- Conflict, Power, and Dependency in Macro-Societal Processes -- Exchange, Exchange Network, and Rational Choice Theories-- Symbolic Interactionism -- Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology -- Feminist Theories -- Sex, Bodies, Truth, and Power: Michel Foucault, Steven Seidman, and Queer Theory -- Postcolonial Theories and Race -- Pierre Bourdieu: Class, Culture, and the Social Reproduction of Inequality -- Economic and Political Globalization: Wallerstein, Sklair, Giddens, Sassen, Bauman, Castells -- Modernities, Risk, Cosmopolitanism, and Global Consumer Culture…”

Emergence and convergence : qualitative novelty and the unity of knowledge / Mario Bunge. by Bunge, Mario, 1919-2020

Table of Contents: “…Stealthy Convergence: Rational-choice Theory and Hermeneutics -- 14. Convergence as Confusion: The Case of 'Maybe' -- 15. …”
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Culture, Structure, or Choice? : Essays in the Interpretation of the British Experience. by Warwick, Paul V.

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Idioms of inquiry : critique and renewal in political science / edited by Terence Ball.

Table of Contents: “…/ Terence Ball -- Resituating explanation / James Farr -- Rational choice theories / Russell Hardin -- Part II: Interpretation and critique -- Deadly Hermenuitics; or, Sinn and the social scientist / Terence Ball -- Toward a critical political science / Stephen K. …”

Key concepts in governance / Mark Bevir. by Bevir, Mark

Table of Contents: “…The Concepts; Accountability; Bureaucracy; Capacity; Center-local relations; Collaborative governance; Collective action problem; Communitarianism; Co-ordination; Corporatism; Decentralization; Dialogic policy-making; Differentiated polity; Enabling state; Environmental governance; Evidence-based policy; Global governance; Globalization; Good governance; Governance Indicators; Hierarchy; Implementation; Incrementalism; Institutionalism; Interdependence; Local governance; Managing networks; Market; Marketization; Metagovernance; Multi-level governance; Network; New public management; Participatory democracy; Pluralism; Policy cycle; Policy network; Public-private partnerships; Rational choice theory; Regionalism; Regulation; Regulation theory; Representative democracy; Rule of law; Social capital; Social constructivism; Social inclusion; Sovereignty; State; Systems theory; Transnationalism…”
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Understanding Contemporary Society : Theories of the Present. by Browning, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Notes on contributors; Chapter 1 Theory, theorists and themes:a user's guide to understanding the present; Part 1 Theories; Chapter 2 Post-modernism: a guide for the perplexed; Chapter 3 Post-feminism; Chapter 4 Post-history: living at the end; Chapter 5 Post-Marxism; Chapter 6 Post-colonialism and beyond; Chapter 7 Reflexive modernization; Chapter 8 Narrative; Chapter 9 Rational choice theory; Chapter 10 Complexity theory; Chapter 11 Contemporary liberalism; Chapter 12 Democracy: liberal and direct; Chapter 13 Communitarianism.…”
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The flight from reality in the human sciences / Ian Shapiro. by Shapiro, Ian

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The biological bases of economic behaviour : a concise introduction / David McFarland. by McFarland, David

Table of Contents: “…Points to remember3 Behavioural Economics; The experimental situation; The sterile environment; The captive animal; The real world; Animals in the real world; Humans in the real world; Hoarding and caching; The rationality muddle; Rational choice theory; Biological rationality; Points to remember; 4 The Biological Bases of Decision-Making; Decisions; Recapitulation; The biological view; Functional aspects of decision-making; Trade-off; "Voluntary" decisions; Introspection; The teleological imperative; Whither Homo economicus?…”
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Essential criminology / Mark M. Lanier, Stuart Henry, Desiré J.M. Anastasia. by Lanier, Mark, Henry, Stuart, 1949-, Anastasia, Desiré J. M.

Table of Contents: “…Defining the problem -- 3 Classical, neoclassical, and rational-choice theories -- 4 "Born to Be Bad" biological, physiological, and biosocial theories of crime -- 5 Criminal minds: psychiatric and psychological explanations for crime -- 6 Learning criminal behavior: social process theories -- 7 Failed socialization: control theory, social bonds, and labeling -- 8 Crimes of place: social ecology and cultural theories of crime -- 9 The sick society: anomie, strain, and subcultural theory -- 10 Capitalism as a criminogenic society: conflict and radical theories of crime -- 11 Patriarchy, gender and crime: feminist criminological theory -- 12 New directions in critical criminological theory -- 13 conclusion: toward a unified criminology.…”
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Anthropology, economics, and choice / Michael Chibnik. by Chibnik, Michael, 1946-

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Money, Time and Rationality in Max Weber : Austrian Connections. by Parsons, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Situating rationality: planning and rational choice theory; Summary of instrumentally rational economic action.…”
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A Wittgensteinian Way with Paradoxes. by Read, Rupert

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Six: Heaps of Trouble: 'Logically Alien Thought' and the Dissolution of 'Sorites' ParadoxesChapter Seven: The Dissolution of the 'Surprise Exam' Paradox-and its Implications for Rational Choice Theory; II: A Way With Lived Paradoxes; Chapter Eight: Swastikas and Cyborgs: The Significance of PI 420, for Reading Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations as a 'War Book'; Chapter Nine: From Moore's Paradox to 'Wittgenstein's Paradox'?…”
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