limits to the inclusion of explanatory factors within the “wide“ rational choice model. It is true that, in principle, any number of factors may enter into ...
Author: Andreas Diekmann
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
ISBN: 9783531908663
Category: Social Science
Page: 344
View: 216
In der Soziologie finden Rational-Choice (RC)-Erklärungen zunehmende Verbreitung. Sie sollen einerseits zu einer Lösung allgemeiner theoretischer Kernprobleme (Erklärung von sozialer Ordnung, Kooperation und sozialen Normen) beitragen. Darüber hinaus dominiert die RC-Theorie mittlerweile zahlreiche Felder der empirischen Forschung. In diesem Band beschreiben namhafte Autoren die umfangreichen theoretischen und empirischen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten. Ein Schwerpunkt der theoretischen Arbeiten sind Analysen sozialer Normen. Die empirischen Beiträge und Anwendungen behandeln ein breites Spektrum von Themen, u.a. aus der Soziologie des abweichenden Verhaltens, der politischen Soziologie und der Analyse des Terrorismus. Abgerundet werden die Aufsätze durch methodologische Überlegungen. Der Band liefert Studierenden und Forschern eine umfassende Orientierung über wichtige Entwicklungslinien dieses Forschungsprogramms.
A CONCLUSION—WHAT CHOICE? We started our journey together with a comparison between the onset of Modernity and our Digital Modern era.
Author: Christopher Peterka
Publisher: Murmann Publishers GmbH
ISBN: 9783867746410
Category: Political Science
Page: 336
View: 842
Ein humanistischer, ökologischer und technologischer Weckruf - konzipiert als zweisprachiges E-Book in Deutsch und Englisch. // A humanist, ecological, and technological call to action - designed as a bilingual e-book in German and English. Der Wandel ist heute so schnell wie noch nie. Wir drohen an Überforderung durch neue Technologien und maßlose Informationsvielfalt kollektiv zu ersticken und mit uns das, was wir einmal Gesellschaft nannten. Jene, die den Wandel vorantreiben, haben vor allem zweierlei im Sinn: Profit und Macht. Sie missbrauchen uns als Klickvieh und Datenlieferant, reduzieren uns auf ein Dasein als Human Ressource und Konsument. Dadurch gefährden sie unsere Demokratie, Vielfalt und heute schon die Menschheit als solche. So muss es nicht weitergehen, sagt Humanist und Unternehmer Christopher Peterka. Statt unser Streben nur noch auf seine Wirtschaftlichkeit abzustellen, plädiert er für einen radikal offenen Dialog über das Menschsein: Wer wollen wir sein? Wie wollen wir miteinander als Gesellschaft leben? Welchen Sinn soll unser Streben haben? Wir müssen diese fundamentalen Fragen neu verhandeln sonst tun es andere. Dafür müssen wir jedoch kurzsichtige Lösungen hinter uns lassen, in den Widerstand gegen das gegenwärtige System gehen und uns von den Ketten, die uns derzeit noch halten, lösen. Deine Wahl soll uns ermutigen, den Status quo in Frage zu stellen und als progressiver Optimist das System nachhaltig zu verändern. English Change today is happening faster than ever before. We are overwhelmed by new technologies and an excess of information, and we feel that we and what we used to think of as society are being suffocated. Those who drive this change pursue primarily two goals: profit and power. They lure us with clickbait and abuse us as a data pool, reducing our existence to one of human resource and consumer. In doing so they threaten our democracy, our diversity, even our humanity itself. It doesn t have to be like this, thinks humanist and entrepreneur Christopher Peterka. Instead of basing our ambition on purely economic yield, he pleads for a radical new dialogue about being human: Who do we want to be? How do we want to live together as a society? What meaning is our ambition meant to have? We have to consider these questions afresh, because if we don t do so, others will. But this means leaving behind short term solutions, and taking a stance against the current system to throw off the shackles that tie us down. Your Choice is a call to action that encourages us to challenge the status quo and to bring lasting change as progressive optimists. To carry its global appeal across geographical boundaries, this book is designed as a bilingual e-book in German and English.
In what way is educational choice a question of federal policy ? Presumably the main issue that concerns this committee is what federal policy should be ...
Choice. Cult Formation and the Development of the True Believer The bounded choice framework and theory offers a new perspective on the identity shift and ...
Author: Janja A. Lalich
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 9780520384026
Category: Religion
Page: 353
View: 524
Heaven's Gate, a secretive group of celibate "monks" awaiting pickup by a UFO, captured intense public attention in 1997 when its members committed collective suicide. As a way of understanding such perplexing events, many have seen those who join cults as needy, lost souls, unable to think for themselves. This book, a compelling look at the cult phenomenon written for a wide audience, dispels such simple formulations by explaining how normal, intelligent people can give up years of their lives—and sometimes their very lives—to groups and beliefs that appear bizarre and irrational. Looking closely at Heaven's Gate and at the Democratic Workers Party, a radical political group of the 1970s and 1980s, Janja Lalich gives us a rare insider's look at these two cults and advances a new theoretical framework that will reshape our understanding of those who join such groups. Lalich's fascinating discussion includes her in-depth interviews with cult devotees as well as reflections gained from her own experience as a high-ranking member of the Democratic Workers Party. Incorporating classical sociological concepts such as "charisma" and "commitment" with more recent work on the social psychology of influence and control, she develops a new approach for understanding how charismatic cult leaders are able to dominate their devotees. She shows how members are led into a state of "bounded choice," in which they make seemingly irrational decisions within a context that makes perfect sense to them and is, in fact, consistent with their highest aspirations. In addition to illuminating the cult phenomenon in the United States and around the world, this important book also addresses our pressing need to know more about the mentality of those true believers who take extreme or violent measures in the name of a cause.
The victims can employ political and legal responses, and this would remain true under choice. In any event such practices will be discouraged by the ...
Author: John E. Coons
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780520317383
Category:
Page: 266
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Features Education For Choice, a charity based in London, England, that provides education and training resources on abortion from a pro-choice perspective. Notes that the charity provides trained speakers for school visits and debates. Contains a FAQ.
Author: Chicago Area Transportation StudyPublish On: 1973
Car - " Other " Choice If the relevant behavioral choice is between private ... The very different calculated reactions for the specific choices : for the ...
Since Medicare + Choice began in 1999 , numerous health plans have terminated or reduced their contracts . Of 309 Medicare + Choice plans serving Medicare ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. JudiciaryPublish On: 1972
predictability than exists at present , since there would be no way of knowing what sort of choice - of - law rules would be fashioned by the federal courts ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary
GovPub | US ED 1 .341 : SCH 6/2 INDICATOR OF THE MONTH NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION STATISTICS ugust 1997 School choice Since the late 1980s , school ...
Then , thine must be the choice . The city or its Gov'nor ! They have said , That thou should'st choose between them . Yield the one , Or by denial doom the ...
A Rational Choice Theoretic Approach Kotaro Suzumura. to cast serious doubt on Sen's approach. To bring this point home, let us examine a modified version ...
Author: Kotaro Suzumura
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674725126
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 787
View: 177
Social choice theory critically assesses and rationally designs economic mechanisms for improving human well-being. Kotaro Suzumura—one of the world’s foremost thinkers in social choice theory and welfare economics—fuses abstract ideas with real-world economies to examine foundational issues of normative economics and collective decision making.
CHOICE AND CHANCE . CHAPTER I . CHOICE . WE have continually to make
our choice among different courses of action open to us , and upon the discretion
with which we make it , in little matters and in great , depends our prosperity and
...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationPublish On: 2011
Consumers need more distributor competitors , and more content competitors - and more competition will generate more choice , better prices , and greater ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Nor has there been any quantitative empirical examination of the factors affecting attorneys ' choices to litigate in a state or federal forum.?4 The dearth ...
This is a booklet about choices. Choices you as a small community official, have in how your community solves its existing wastewater problems, or addresses ...
Janet Napolitano and the Politics of Latina/o College Choice Ryan Evely Gildersleeve, Carlos Cruz, Diana Madriz, and Cindy Melendrez-Flores This chapter ...
Author: Patricia Perez
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317512615
Category: Education
Page: 210
View: 146
Now the largest and fastest-growing ethnic population in the U.S., Latino students face many challenges and complexities when it comes to college choice and access. This edited volume provides much needed theoretical and empirical data on how the schooling experiences of Latino students shape their educational aspirations and access to higher education. It explores how the individual and collective influence of the home, school and policy shape the college decision-making process. This unique collection of original scholarly articles offers critical insight on educational pathways that will help families, educators and policy makers intervene in ways that foster and sustain college access and participation for Latino students. It considers destination preferences and enrollment selections, elementary and secondary school experiences, and intervention programs that shed light on how practitioners can promote participation and retention. This multi-conceptual, multi-methodological volume offers directions for future research, programming and policy in Latino education.
Charles JACK AND THE Perrault This Story is the Choice of: Dr. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER Dr. HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE President of the New York Free Kindergarten ...
Author: Various
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN: EAN:4057664624567
Category: Fiction
Page: 888
View: 471
"Favorite Fairy Tales: The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
... down the tree along the USE-SELECT-CHANGE-CREATE (USCC) choice sequence. ... these increasingly dramatic institutional choices is harder to anticipate, ...
Author: Joseph Jupille
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107038950
Category: Bibles
Page: 258
View: 822
Why do institutions emerge, operate, evolve and persist? 'Institutional Choice and Global Commerce' elaborates a theory of boundedly rational institutional choice that explains when states USE available institutions, SELECT among alternative forums, CHANGE existing rules, or CREATE new arrangements (USCC). The authors reveal the striking staying power of the institutional status quo and test their innovative theory against evidence on institutional choice in global commerce from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. Cases range from the establishment in 1876 of the first truly international system of commercial dispute resolution, the Mixed Courts of Egypt, to the founding and operation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the World Trade Organization, and the International Accounting Standards Board. Analysts of institutional choice henceforth must take seriously not only the distinct demands of specific cooperation dilemmas, but also the wide array of available institutional choices.
He gave me my choice . Er traf eine Auswahl . He made a choice . Aus freier
Wahl . Of one ' s own choice . Dhne Auswahl . Indiscriminately . Ausgewählte
Blumen . Choice flowers . Eine Auswahl der besten Lieder . A selection of the
best ...
the wrong . can all “ choice is pressed upon us all . It is part of the very greatness
of our nature that we can choose , and solemnly resolve in deliberate
determination to pursue the right and avoid We are not feathers blown about by
every wind ...
