Rationality in Social Science

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Rationality in Social Science: Introduction

   • Ivar Krumpal, Werner Raub, Andreas Tutić

   Pages 1-8

3. Foundations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. From Pascal to Ellsberg: Paradoxes of Rationality Stimulate the Progress of Decision Theory

      • Andreas Diekmann

      Pages 11-23

   3. Rationology, Rationality and Reason

      • Hartmut Kliemt

      Pages 25-44

   4. “Das Modell ist dafür nicht geeignet!” (“The Model is not Suitable for This!”): The Model of Frame Selection and a Corrective Replication of the Findings in the Fehr-Gächter Experiments on the Development of Cooperation in Public Good Situations

      • Hartmut Esser

      Pages 45-66

   5. Sociology in Times of Pandemic: Metatheoretical Considerations and the Example of the Covid-19 Crisis

      • Roger Berger, Ivar Krumpal

      Pages 67-86

4. Norms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. When Do People Follow the Behavior of Others? The Effects of Descriptive and Injunctive Norms, and the Werther Effect

      • Karl-Dieter Opp

      Pages 89-116

   3. Revenge and Gratitude in Trust-Based Encounters. Experimental Evidence on Process-Based Reciprocity

      • Manuela Vieth

      Pages 117-148

   4. How More Severe Punishment Generates Less Norm Enforcement. Further Evidence of Paradoxical Effects of Norm Enforcement in Inspection Games

      • Heiko Rauhut, Fabian Winter

      Pages 149-173

   5. Balancedness. Emerson’s Theory in the Upanishads, in Cooperative Game Theory, and Beyond

      • Harald Wiese

      Pages 175-198

5. Prosociality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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   2. Endogenizing Conditions for Cooperation of Rational Egoists

      • Werner Raub

      Pages 201-219

   3. Opposing Effects of Objective and Subjective Social Status on Prosociality: Theory and Quasi-Experiment

      • Andreas Tutić, Ulf Liebe

      Pages 221-244

   4. Green Homeowners? An Empirical Application of Fischel’s Homevoter Hypothesis

      • Peter Preisendörfer

      Pages 245-268

   5. How Can Employers Signal Trustworthiness to Job Seekers? Determinants of Employer Reputation

      • Martin Abraham, Jan Gniza, Kerstin Ostermann

      Pages 269-292

The concept of rationality and its significance for theory and empirical research in social science are key topics of scholarly discussion. In the tradition of an analytical as well as empirical approach in social science, this volume assembles novel contributions on methodological foundations and basic assumptions of theories of rational choice. The volume highlights the use of rational choice assumptions for research on fundamental problems in social theory such as the emergence, dynamics, and effects of social norms and the conditions for cooperation and prosociality.

• Social Theory
• Rationality
• Normativity
• Social Theory
• Social order
• Spiral of silence
• Social control
• Rational Choice
• Prosociality
• Social Norms
• Process-Based Reciprocity
• Descriptive Norms
• Injunctive Norms
• Covid-19 Crisis
• Frame Selection
• Decision Theory

• Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

  Ivar Krumpal, Andreas Tutić

• Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Werner Raub

Ivar Krumpal, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Leipzig
Werner Raub, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), Utrecht University
Andreas Tutić, Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation, Department of Sociology, University of Leipzig

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