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1、LimitationsofRationalChoiceTheoryAuthor(s):RaymondBoudonSource:AmericanJournalofSociology,Vol.104,No.3(November1998),pp.817-828Publishedby:TheUniversityofChicagoPressStableURL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/210087.Accessed:10/12/201307:57YouruseoftheJSTOR
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4、Sociology.http://www.jstor.orgThiscontentdownloadedfrom113.108.133.58onTue,10Dec201307:57:58AMAllusesubjecttoJSTORTermsandConditionsLimitationsofRationalChoiceTheory1RaymondBoudonCNRSTHEATTRACTIVENESSOFRATIONALCHOICETHEORYTheappealofrationalchoicetheory(RCT)ha
5、sbeenwellexplainedbyJamesColeman(1986):rationalchoicetheoryhasªauniqueattrac-tivenessºasabasisfortheorybecauseitissuchacompleteconceptionofactionªthatweneedasknomorequestionsaboutit.ºHollis(1977)hasexpressedthesameideainotherwords:ªrationalactionisitsownexplan
6、a-tionº(quotedbyGoldthorpe1996).Itistruethat,oncewehaveexplainedthatsubjectXhasdoneYratherthanY¢becauseYwasmoreadvanta-geous,weneedtoknownothingmore.Evenifbiologywasabletodescribeadequatelythechemicalorelectricalprocessesgoingoninthebrainwhenasubjectmakesadeci
7、sion,thiswouldaddnothingtotheexplanationastowhythesubjectdidY.Itwouldmerelydescribethesameprocessinadifferentlanguage.Butthebiologicalexplanationwouldbeunabletocon®rmordiscon®rmtherationalexplanation.Thisª®nalºaspectofratio-nalexplanations,thefactthattheseexpl
8、anationsarewithoutªblackboxºfrustrations,isprobably,assuggestedbyColeman,themainsourceofRCT'sattractiveness.ISRCTGENERAL?TwoquestionsshouldberaisedbeforewegiveRCTthestatusofagenera
