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Check here periodically for additional readings, sites and pages related to our course (I will try to keep this page updated throughout the quarter) Please e-mail me your suggestions. [NOTE: Order of suggested readings begins with latest class sessions] ADDITIONAL ONLINE SOURCES ON RATIONAL CHOICE THIS is just a brief list of sources I put together using a quick search in Google (based on the simple search phrase: "Rational Choice"). For the last source, I added the word "poverty." I encourage you to find additional sources if you are still confused about the rational choice perspective--perhaps one account will "speak" to you more effectively than others. If you find a particularly good source, please let the rest of the class know through the discussion board. http://uregina.ca/~gingrich/f1000.htm This a fairly long, but useful introduction to Rational Choice written by a sociologist for his course on Contemporary Social Theory http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/200/ratchoc.html Another essay on Rational Choice by a sociologist (Robert Keel, for his class on the Sociology of Deviant Behavior). The author addresses the question, "Why do people engage in deviant and/or criminal acts?" http://choo.fis.utoronto.ca/FIS/Courses/LIS2149/RatChoice.html A very short "notes" page on key assumptions in Rational Choice http://www.essaybank.co.uk/free_coursework/338.html A useful introductory essay on Rational Choice http://www.providence.edu/las/discussion.htm A discussion about Rational Choice (see the bottom of the page for a concise description of Rational Choice Theory) |
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