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The social conditions of instrumental action: Problems in the sociological understanding of rational choice theory

Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2008
This article critically analyzes new sociological approaches to the rational choice theory which - beyond examining political or economic practices - link the notion of instrumental rationality to social issues and themes.
Bruno Sciberras de Carvalho, Paul Charles Freston   +1 more
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Extremism within the family [PDF]

, 2006
This paper considers an economic analysis of intergenerational transition of ethnic and social trait. We consider the level of social traits chosen by parents and its effect on their children's choice of ethnic and social traits when reaching adulthood.
Epstein, G.S.
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Capital theory and rational choice [PDF]

Sociologija, 2009
Almost from the very beginning of economic science the notion of capital has been the subject of numerous controversies. The main reason for the concept's controversial nature is that it explains interest and profit.
Golubović Nataša
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Expanding Students’ Choices in Language Education

Journal of Modern Languages, 2021
Many teachers seem interested in their classes being more student-centered. Students making more choices about their own learning forms a key aspect of student-centered learning, as well as life-long learning.
George Jacobs, Willy Renandya
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Simulations in Models of Preference Aggregation

Œconomia, 2020
Social choice theory provides a theoretical framework for analyzing how to combine individual opinions, preferences, interests or welfare so as to reach a collective decision.
Mostapha Diss, Eric Kamwa
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Entrepreneurs’ age, institutions, and social value creation goals: a multi-country study [PDF]

, 2020
This study explores the relationship between an entrepreneur's age and his/her social value creation goals. Building on the lifespan developmental psychology literature and institutional theory, we hypothesize a U-shaped relationship between ...
A Carsrud, A Clegg, A Van Stel, B Cohen, B Hoogendoorn, B Wiernik, BT Heim, BW Roberts, C De Ruysscher, C Howorth, CS Mackenzie, D De Clercq, D De Clercq, DC North, DE Super, DJ Levinson, DM Hechavarría, DM Hechavarría, DT Kooij, E Autio, EH Erikson, FR Lang, G Singh, GD Bruton, H Bergmann, H Zacher, H Zacher, HP Bowen, IM Katz, J Austin, J Curran, J De Haan, J Hörisch, J Hörisch, J Lepoutre, J Mair, J Mair, JE Nurmi, JJ Hox, JS McMullen, JT Lind, K Nyström, K Salmela-Aro, K Wennberg, KW Schaie, L Klapper, LL Carstensen, LL Carstensen, LL Carstensen, M Allemand, M Lévesque, M Obschonka, MM Gielnik, MT Dacin, N Bosma, NC Ebner, P Warr, PA Dacin, PB Baltes, PJ Boettke, R Aidis, R Amit, R Athayde, R Kanfer, R Sigman, RF Haans, RO Keohane, S Bacq, S Djankov, S Estrin, S Estrin, S Estrin, S Goltz, S Pathak, S Pathak, S Sasabuchi, S Srivastava, S Terjesen, SA Brieger, SA Brieger, SA Brieger, SA Zahra, SC Parker, SL Brickson, T Heimonen, T Kautonen, T Kautonen, T Kautonen, T Miller, T Minola, T Minola, TAB Snijders, U Stephan, W Bönte, ZJ Acs   +94 more
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Consistent Probabilistic Social Choice [PDF]

, 2016
Two fundamental axioms in social choice theory are consistency with respect to a variable electorate and consistency with respect to components of similar alternatives.
Brandl, Florian, Brandt, Felix, Seedig, Hans Georg   +2 more
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RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY IN SOCIOLOGY: A METHODOLOGICAL ARGUMENT [PDF]

Revista Română de Sociologie, 2013
În the last years, rational choice theory (RCT) took over a lot of the social sciences, almost polarizing discussions in sociology, such that I was able to hear questions like: are there any other theories in sociology, besides rational choice theory ...
ALEXANDRA GHEONDEA-ELADI
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Anchored Team Formation Games

Proceedings of the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2021
We propose Anchored Team Formation Games (ATFGs), a new class of hedonic game inspired by tabletop role playing games.We establish the NP-hardness of determining whether Nash stable coalition structures exist, and provide results for three heuristics for
Jacob Schlueter, Christian Addington, Judy Goldsmith   +2 more
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A generalization to networks of Young's characterization of the Borda rule [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
We prove that, for any given set of networks satisfying suitable conditions, the net-oudegree network solution, the net-indegree network solution, and the total network solution are the unique network solutions on that set satisfying neutrality, consistency and cancellation.
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