Last updated on Sunday, January 25, 2004

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)