Rational Choice Theory and Empirical Research
Methodological and Theoretical Contributions in Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7635338 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clemens Kroneberg (0000-0001-8838-1087, University of Mannheim), Frank Kalter (University of Mannheim) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-92 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Sociology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0360-0572 • E-ISSN: 1545-2115 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-soc-071811-145441 |
| OpenAlex | W2131441823 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 79 |
| References cited | 99 |
Rational choice theory (RCT) constitutes a major approach of sociological theorizing and research in Europe. We review key methodological and theoretical contributions that have arisen from the increasing empirical application of RCT and have the potential to stimulate the development of RCT and sociology more generally. Methodologically, discussions have evolved around how to test RCT empirically and how to realize its ambition to give theory-guidance to social research. These discussions have identified the strengths and shortcomings of direct and indirect test strategies using survey or experimental data. Metatheoretically, different views have emerged about how to deal with counterevidence from applied fields of sociological research. Whereas some argue for a wide version of RCT that allows a broad set of auxiliary assumptions about preferences, expectations, and constraints, others advocate a major overhaul of RCT's core assumptions by incorporating additional concepts and mechanisms
Core (optical fiber · Economics · Empirical research · Epistemology · Key (lock · Management science · Positive economics · Randomized controlled trial · Randomized experiment · Rational choice theory (criminology · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Test (biology · Computer Science · Mathematics · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Power and Status Dynamics
Soziale Herkunft und die Umsetzung von Studienaspirationen
Rational choice theory and social research
Social Network Analysis in the Study of Ethnic Inequalities
Rational Choice Theory in Sociology
Action, Theories of Social
Soziale Herkunft und die Umsetzung von Studienaspirationen
Why do students from underprivileged families less often intend to study abroad?
The Explanation of Everything. A Critical Assessment of Raymond Boudon's Theory Explaining Descriptive and Normative Beliefs, Attitudes, Preferences and Behavior
Vocational Education and Training, Vocational Baccalaureate or Academic High School? An Empirical Analysis of Social Selective Transitions to Upper Secondary Education in the German-Speaking Part of Switzerland
Exploring an extinct society through the lens of Habitus-Field theory and the Tocharian text corpus
Tracking and identity
Tracking-related experiences of second-generation Asian Indian students in the USA
Will Covid pandemic intensify the inequality in transnational education participation
Estimating Latent Preferences for Crime
Does MD2 pineapple variety adoption improve smallholder GlobalGAP certification? Evidence from Southern Ghana
When Violence Is Not an Option
Fear of Being Replaced by Robots and Turnover Intention
Predictors of cellphone-related distracted walking among college students
The use frequency of 10 different methods for preventing and detecting academic dishonesty and the factors influencing their use
Número complet
Bildung als Privileg − Ursachen, Mechanismen, Prozesse und Wirkungen
Character, Circumstances, and Criminal Careers
The problem of (non)return of Ukrainian war migrants
Sociology of Justice
Rational Choice Theory (and Economic Sociology)
La perspectiva sociológica sobre la racionalidad y la desigualdad educativa
Unhealthy parenting strategies
Potentialités et limites de la simulation multi-agents
Should we study political behaviour as rituals? Towards a general micro theory of politics in everyday life
Rational choice theory' and moral behavior
The impact of teachers' expectations on students' educational opportunities in the life course
The role of rationality in motivating participation in social movements
Rethinking Rationality. Scientists’ Perspectives on Health Communication After the Covid-19 Pandemic
Sich entscheiden als praktisches Tun. Methodologische Überlegungen einer praxistheoretischen Erforschung der Elternwahl zur inklusiven Schule
Should I Stay or Should I Go?« Prevalence and Predictors of Spatial Mobility among Youth in the Transition to Vocational Education and Training in Germany
Soziologische Gerechtigkeitsanalyse. Überlegungen zur theoretischen Fundierung eines Forschungsfeldes
Análisis institucional multiagente
The Many (Subtle) Ways Parents Game the System
Social Capital in Polish-German Migration Decision-Making
The (hopefully) last stand of the covering-law theory
Is rational choice theory still a rational choice of theory? A response to Opp
Gendered ethnic choice effects at the transition to upper secondary education in Switzerland
Neutralization strategies account for the concern-behavior gap in renewable energy usage – Evidence from panel data from Germany
Attitudes toward Redistributive Policy
The ICC and the Prevention of Atrocities
Trafficking of Ethiopian women to Europe – making choices, taking risks, and implications
Rational Choice Theory in Comparative Sociology
The moderating role of government heuristics in public preferences for redistribution
Zum Zusammenwirken von Normen und Anreizen bei Fertilitätsentscheidungen
Explaining class differences in educational attainment in Japan
Tourists on shared bikes
Maximizing Utility or Avoiding Losses? Uncovering Decision Rule-Heterogeneity in Sociological Research with an Application to Neighbourhood Choice
Uncovering the Nexus Between Attitudes, Preferences, and Behavior in Sociological Applications of Stated Choice Experiments
Welche Lohnungleichheiten sind gerecht
Theory Development in Comparative Social Research
Thoughts on Integrating Evolutionary Analysis into Sociological Action Theory
Bewertungsspiele. Von der Handlungs- zur Koordinationstheorie
Theories of Middle Range
Between Mechanism Talk And Mechanism Cult
Die Low-Cost-Hypothese
Road Traffic and Aircraft Noise as Drivers of Environmental Protest
Rational Choice Requiem
Always Rational Choice Theory? Lessons from Conventional Economics and Their Relevance and Potential Benefits for Contemporary Sociologists
Analytical Sociology and Symbolic Interactionism
Toward Economic Sociology/Socio-Economics? Sociological Components in Contemporary Economics and Implications for Sociology
Economics as a Multi-Paradigmatic Science
La construction sociale de la migration
For an integrative theory of social behaviour
Installing computational social science
Do Local Sex Ratios Approximate Subjective Partner Markets
(Mis)Matched College Aspirations and Expectations
Social Influence or Rational Choice? Two Models and Their Contribution to Explaining Class Differentials in Student Educational Aspirations
Mechanisms of Perceived Social Norms
Modeling Updating of Perceived Detection Risk
Decision-Making Processes in Social Contexts
Cooperative Networks
When does a provocation demand a violent response? A randomized scenario study of the code of the street
God and the Ballot Box
Classic, Segmented-, or Neo-Assimilation, Which Theory to Use? A Scientific-Method Investigation
Social Rationality versus Rational Egoism
Rational Choice Theory in Sociology
Information, Participation, and Choice
Were They Pushed or Did They Jump?
Explaining Social Behavior
Foundations of Human Sociality
To Vote or Not to Vote
Embedded trust
The Theory of Planned Behavior
Material priming
Identifying “deterrable” offenders
Chapter Nine. Testing the Breen-Goldthorpe Model of Educational Decision Making
A framework for the unification of the behavioral sciences
Reflections on the problem of relevance
The Polish peasant in Europe and America
Education, opportunity, and social inequality
The Blackwell companion to social theory
Structure of Social Action
Frame analysis
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Analyzing Rational Crime — Models and Methods
Economics and Identity
The Name of the Game
Rational Action Theory for Sociology
Dissecting the Social
Explanations by mechanisms in the social sciences. Problems, advantages and alternatives
The relative risk aversion hypothesis of educational choice
Environmental Concern and the Adoption of Organic Agriculture
Brückenhypothesen – Kritik der ökonomischen Theorie der Ziele / Critique of the Economic Theory of Human Goals
Does Relative Risk Aversion explain educational inequality? A dynamic choice approach
Collective Political Action
Social Rationality, Semi-Modularity and Goal-Framing
Unrealistic Assumptions in Rational Choice Theory
A Preference for Selfish Preferences
Studies in the Logic of Explanation
Normative, Gain and Hedonic Goal Frames Guiding Environmental Behavior
The dissolution of marriages
Same-gender and cross-gender peer acceptance and peer rejection and their relation to bullying and helping among preadolescents
Introduction
Impure Altruism and Donations to Public Goods
The Interplay of Moral Norms and Instrumental Incentives in Crime Causation
The perceptual push
Demographic Change, Educational Expansion, and Structural Assimilation of Immigrants
What is Wrong with 'Variable Sociology
Micro-Macro Links and Microfoundations in Sociology
Modeling Micro-Macro Relationships
Analytical Sociology and Theories of the Middle Range
"Thick Rationality and the Missing "Brute Fact
Contending Conceptions of the Theory of Rational Action
Soft Incentives and Collective Action
The claiming effect
The Statistical Evaluation of Social Network Dynamics
The Rational Choice Perspective
Economic and Social Returns To Educational Choices
Green and Greenback
Group Size and the Logic of Collective Action
The `Cognitivist Model
Explaining Educational Differentials
Rational Choice Theory and Explanation
Educational Differentials in the Netherlands
Norms and Rationality in Electoral Participation and in the Rescue of Jews in WWII
Cultural capital or relative risk aversion? Two mechanisms for educational inequality compared1
Deterring Delinquents
A cost-benefit model of rural to urban migration in Taiwan
Spousal caregivers' activity restriction and depression
Mining the intersections of cognitive sociology and neuroscience
The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
Personal Influence, Collective Rationality, and Mass Political Action
Analytical Sociology and Its Critics
Foundations of Social Theory
Scandinavian Rational Choice Sociology
The Origin of Values
Human Motivation and Social Cooperation
Beyond Rational Choice Theory
From Factors to Actors
New Economics of Sociological Criminology
Culture and Cognition
Sociological Rational Choice Theory
Causal Mechanisms in the Social Sciences
The Quantitative Analysis of Large-Scale Data-sets and Rational Action Theory
Curricular Choice
Value of Children and the Framing of Fertility
Explaining Educational Decision and Effects of Families' Social Class Position
The Persistence of the Gendered Division of Domestic Labour
Educational Expansion and Persistent Inequalities of Education
Understanding the diversity of immigrant incorporation
The impact of attitudes and behavioral costs on environmental behavior
| Unique citing works | 79 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,64 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 77 |