ON PEOPLES SUBJECTIVE REASON AND ON CRITI CAL-THEORY PROBLEM WITH THAT

Authors
Citation
H. Esser, ON PEOPLES SUBJECTIVE REASON AND ON CRITI CAL-THEORY PROBLEM WITH THAT, Soziale Welt, 45(1), 1994, pp. 16-32
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Sociology
Journal title
ISSN journal
00386073
Volume
45
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
16 - 32
Database
ISI
SICI code
0038-6073(1994)45:1<16:OPSRAO>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
This contribution deals with some critical remarks on assumptions and results of the so-called rational-choice-theory in sociology. It is de monstrated that most of the objections against the rational choice app roach are not founded in the approach itself but by a mis-interpretati on and mis-reception of some extreme assumptions of the approach. The general objection that the rational-choice-approach is not able to for mulate objective normative standards for a rational e. g. ''good'' soc iety is reasonable. But that has never been the aim of rational choice theory.