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The Explanation of Everything. A Critical Assessment of Raymond Boudon’s Theory Explaining Descriptive and Normative Beliefs, Attitudes, Preferences and Behavior

机译:一切的解释。雷蒙德·鲍顿理论的关键评估解释描述性和规范信念,态度,偏好和行为

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Raymond Boudon proposes a theory that explains attitudes, descriptive and normative beliefs, preferences and behavior, in other words: everything – or at least almost everything – social scientists are interested in. The basic idea is that reasons are a major causal factor, but there are also irrational factors (Boudon’s term) such as affective causes. This is the first paper that provides a detailed critical analysis of this theory. We first identify the major problems of the theory. One is its relatively low explanatory power: it is largely left open how to select the causally relevant reasons and irrational factors for a given explanandum. A second problem is the validity of the theory: is it plausible that a single theory can explain the wide range of phenomena Boudon focuses on? A final question is whether Boudon’s rejection of utility maximization is acceptable.To answer these questions two social psychological theories are applied to each of the explananda of Boudon’s theory: value expectancy and balance theory. It is shown that the two theories are capable of improving the explanatory power of Boudon’s theory. They further confirm that a single theory can explain the explananda of Boudon’s theory. Finally, both theories imply that Boudon’s rejection of utility maximization is not tenable.
机译:Raymond Boudon提出了一个解释态度,描述性和规范性信仰,偏好和行为的理论,换句话说:一切 - 或者至少几乎所有的一切 - 社会科学家都感兴趣。基本思想是原因是一个主要因果因素,但在那里也是非理性因素(Boudon的术语),如情感原因。这是提供对该理论的详细批判性分析的第一种论文。我们首先确定理论的主要问题。一个是它相对较低的解释力:它在很大程度上留下了如何选择对给定的解释性的因果关系和非理性因素。第二个问题是理论的有效性:单一理论可以解释广泛的现象Boudon专注于吗?最后一个问题是Budon对实用能力最大化的拒绝是可接受的。回答这些问题,两个社会心理学理论适用于Boudon理论的每个解释性:价值期望和平衡理论。结果表明,这两个理论能够提高鲍顿理论的解释力。他们进一步证实,单一理论可以解释Boudon理论的解释。最后,这两个理论都意味着Boudon对公用事业最大化的拒绝是不可替代的。

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    Karl-Dieter Opp;

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