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Bounded Rationality, Emotions, and How Sociology May Take Profit: Towards an Interdisciplinary Opening

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Human action differs from processes in the physical world insofar as action in the social world is driven by motivation. Motivation is embedded in a framework of social goals and related preferences. Phenomenology describes very clearly that social action is led by a cognitive structure of sense and relevance, which guides people through their biographies. Such cognitive structures of sense and relevance serve as a kind of normative compass, indicating which aims are positive, neutral, or negative and how specific courses of social actions are related to those aims. Rationality has its origin in the Latin ratio, which is considered as another term for pure reason. Statements of reason can differ according to different social logics within a single society and across societies, in recent as well as in historical times.

Bögenhold, Dieter. Bounded Rationality, Emotions and How Sociology May Take Profit: Towards an Interdisciplinary Opening, in: Helmut Staubmann & Victor M. Lidz (Eds.). Rationality in the Social Sciences. The Schumpeter/Parsons Seminar 1939/40 and Current Perspectives (pp. 105–120). Heidelberg; New York et al.: Springer.

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Bögenhold, D. (2021). Bounded Rationality, Emotions, and How Sociology May Take Profit: Towards an Interdisciplinary Opening. In: Neglected Links in Economics and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79193-3_7

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