On the Limits of Rational Choice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5917428 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ilja Srubar (University of Constance Translation by Allison Wetterlin and Thomas Luckmann, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 32-46 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rationality and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1043-4631 • E-ISSN: 1461-7358 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1043463193005001004 |
| OpenAlex | W2078495813 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 9 |
Hartmut Esser states an extensive correspondence of rational choice theory and Alfred Schütz's interpretative sociology. He postulates the possibility of explaining everyday behavior using a rational choice (RC) approach that is "relaxed" by employment of actors' subjective knowledge. My comment traces the stated correspondence to its origins in Schütz's work and points out the limits of the RC model that emerge from Schütz's discussion of Ludwig von Mises' theory of action: Although the RC approach recognizes that the conditions of action are selected by actors' subjective stock of knowledge, it does not offer any theoretical explanation for the social constitution of this knowledge, nor for the selectivity of its everyday structures
Action (physics · Constitution · Criminology · Economics · Epistemology · Mathematical economics · Political science · Positive economics · Rational choice theory (criminology · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Epistemological Problems of Economics
The phenomenology of the social world
Der sinnhafte Aufbau der sozialen Welt
Habits“, „Frames“ und „Rational Choice“
Die Rationalität des Alltagshandelns
The Rationality of Everyday Behavior
Phenomenology and the social sciences
Reflections on the Problem of Relevance
Alfred Schutz and the Austrian School of Economics
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2005 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |