02169nmm a22003018i 4500 829718 cr cnu-------- 131206s2015||||enk o ||1 0|eng|d 9781107763111 (ebook) H61 .E434 2015 Elster, Jon, 1940- author. 58117 Explaining social behavior : more nuts and bolts for the social sciences / Jon Elster. 2nd edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015. 4065 1 online resource (x, 505 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). e-Book Cambridge University Press In this new edition of his critically acclaimed book, Jon Elster examines the nature of social behavior, proposing choice as the central concept of the social sciences. Extensively revised throughout, the book offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms, drawing on many case studies and experiments to explore the nature of explanation in the social sciences; an analysis of the mental states - beliefs, desires, and emotions - that are precursors to action; a systematic comparison of rational-choice models of behavior with alternative accounts, and a review of mechanisms of social interaction ranging from strategic behavior to collective decision making. A wholly new chapter includes an exploration of classical moralists and Proust in charting mental mechanisms operating 'behind the back' of the agent, and a new conclusion points to the pitfalls and fallacies in current ways of doing social science, proposing guidelines for more modest and more robust procedures. Social sciences Methodology. 5240 Social interaction. 58118 Electronic book. 60578 e-Book 58568 Electronic books. 0011_1 บริหารธุรกิจบัณฑิต สาขาการจัดการธุรกิจการค้าสมัยใหม่ MTM (ป.ตรี) 31 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107763111 Click to e-Book (On Network PIM Only) BK 829718 boonyanuch 829718 829718