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• catalog abstract "These essays use a common interpretive framework to show how economic and other concepts are socially constructed, how political philosophers and the workings of democracy can be understood, and how rational choice theories might be given wider application and greater discriminatory power. Aaron Wildavsky hoped that fellow social scientists would be persuaded of the unifying and integrating potential of what Mary Douglas called "grid-group theory" (which he further developed as "cultural theory") by seeing this explanatory tool used in so many different ways and with regard to such a variety of issues and questions. In the first section, Wildavsky argues that concepts such as externalities, public goods, altruism, and even risk and rape, are constructs of rival, ubiquitous societal subcultures engaged in a perpetual interpretive and political struggle with one another. In the second section, he shows how his own cultural constructs and concepts can be used to understand the competing human objectives of normative and analytic political philosophers, including Thomas Hobbes and John Stuart Mill. In the third section, Wildavsky suggests how his cultural ideas might be combined with those of rational choice theorists by adding a theory of preference formation and ultimate objectives to their theories of efficient preference realization and instrumental rationality.".
• catalog contributor b10475946.
• catalog contributor b10475947.
• catalog contributor b10475948.
• catalog created "c1998.".
• catalog date "1998".
• catalog date "c1998.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
• catalog description "In the first section, Wildavsky argues that concepts such as externalities, public goods, altruism, and even risk and rape, are constructs of rival, ubiquitous societal subcultures engaged in a perpetual interpretive and political struggle with one another. In the second section, he shows how his own cultural constructs and concepts can be used to understand the competing human objectives of normative and analytic political philosophers, including Thomas Hobbes and John Stuart Mill. In the third section, Wildavsky suggests how his cultural ideas might be combined with those of rational choice theorists by adding a theory of preference formation and ultimate objectives to their theories of efficient preference realization and instrumental rationality.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: Political Cultures -- 1. On the Social Construction of Distinctions: Risk, Rape, Public Goods, and Altruism -- 2. Why the Traditional Distinction between Public and Private Goods Should be Abandoned -- 3. At Once Ubiquitous and Elusive, the Concept of Externalities is Either Vacuous or Misapplied -- 4. Accounting for the Environment -- 5. The Social Construction of Cooperation: Egalitarian, Hierarchical, and Individualistic Faces of Altruism -- 6. If Institutions Have Consequences, Why Don't We Hear about Them from Moral Philosophers? -- 7. Thomas Hobbes and His Critics: Interpretive Implications of Cultural Theory -- 8. The "Multicultural" Mill -- 9. Democracy as a Coalition of Cultures.".
• catalog description "These essays use a common interpretive framework to show how economic and other concepts are socially constructed, how political philosophers and the workings of democracy can be understood, and how rational choice theories might be given wider application and greater discriminatory power. Aaron Wildavsky hoped that fellow social scientists would be persuaded of the unifying and integrating potential of what Mary Douglas called "grid-group theory" (which he further developed as "cultural theory") by seeing this explanatory tool used in so many different ways and with regard to such a variety of issues and questions.".
• catalog extent "xxviii, 324 p. :".
• catalog identifier "1560002751 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1998".
• catalog issued "c1998.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers,".
• catalog subject "306 21".
• catalog subject "Culture.".
• catalog subject "Democracy.".
• catalog subject "Externalities (Economics)".
• catalog subject "HM101 .W448 1997".
• catalog subject "Politics and culture.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Political Cultures -- 1. On the Social Construction of Distinctions: Risk, Rape, Public Goods, and Altruism -- 2. Why the Traditional Distinction between Public and Private Goods Should be Abandoned -- 3. At Once Ubiquitous and Elusive, the Concept of Externalities is Either Vacuous or Misapplied -- 4. Accounting for the Environment -- 5. The Social Construction of Cooperation: Egalitarian, Hierarchical, and Individualistic Faces of Altruism -- 6. If Institutions Have Consequences, Why Don't We Hear about Them from Moral Philosophers? -- 7. Thomas Hobbes and His Critics: Interpretive Implications of Cultural Theory -- 8. The "Multicultural" Mill -- 9. Democracy as a Coalition of Cultures.".
• catalog title "Culture and social theory / Aaron Wildavsky ; edited by Sun-Ki Chai and Brendon Swedlow ; with a foreword by Charles Lockhart and Richard M. Coughlin.".
• catalog type "text".