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Does improved upward social mobility foster frustration and conflict? A large-scale online experiment testing Boudon’s model 提高社会向上流动性是否会助长挫折感和冲突？测试布东模型的大规模在线实验

IF 1 4区社会学

Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2024-01-04 DOI: 10.1177/10434631231225544

Joel Berger, Andreas Diekmann, Stefan Wehrli

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Effectiveness of technology for braille literacy education for children: a systematic review. 儿童盲文识字教育技术的有效性：系统回顾。

IF 2.2 4区社会学

Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-05-15 DOI: 10.1080/17483107.2022.2070676

Elizabeth R Hoskin, Morag K Coyne, Michael J White, Stephan C D Dobri, T Claire Davies, Shane D Pinder

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Refined tastes, coarse tastes: Solving the stratification-of-goods enigma 精致的口味，粗糙的口味：破解商品分层之谜

IF 1 4区社会学

Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2023-12-11 DOI: 10.1177/10434631231220850

Elias L. Khalil

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Explaining mobilization for revolts by private interests and kinship relations 用私人利益和亲属关系解释动员起义的原因

IF 1 4区社会学

Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.1177/10434631231219954

Niccolò G. Armandola, Malte Doehne, Katja Rost

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Graduated sanctioning, endogenous institutions and sustainable cooperation in common-pool resources: An experimental test 分级制裁、内生机构和共有资源的可持续合作：实验检验

IF 1 4区社会学

Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/10434631231219608

Fijnanda van Klingeren, Vincent Buskens

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The role of generalized trust and control in the employment of domestic help – An experimental case study for Germany and the UK 广义信任和控制在雇佣家庭佣工中的作用——德国和英国的实验案例研究

4区社会学

Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.1177/10434631231213721

Martin Abraham, Natascha Nisic, Miriam Trübner, Hanna Walch, Anja Wunder

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Cooperation sustainability in small groups: Exogenous and endogenous dynamics of the sustainability of cooperation 小团体中的合作可持续性:合作可持续性的外生和内生动力

4区社会学

Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI: 10.1177/10434631231209832

Zeynep Melis Kirgil, Rafael Wittek

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High realistic aspirations – Do normative pressures overthrow rational calculations? Applying the model of frame selection to the educational aspirations of immigrant and majority students in Germany 高度现实的愿望——规范的压力会推翻理性的计算吗?将框架选择模型应用于德国移民和多数学生的教育愿望

4区社会学

Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/10434631231208989

Miriam Schmaus, Melanie Olczyk, Sebastian Neumeyer, Gisela Will

{"title":"High realistic aspirations – Do normative pressures overthrow rational calculations? Applying the model of frame selection to the educational aspirations of immigrant and majority students in Germany","authors":"Miriam Schmaus, Melanie Olczyk, Sebastian Neumeyer, Gisela Will","doi":"10.1177/10434631231208989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10434631231208989","url":null,"abstract":"Educational aspirations are of interest to scholars in several disciplines. They can affect multiple aspects of educational success and have been shown to differ between major social groups. Explanations for educational aspirations typically link to two main models of aspiration formation: the Wisconsin model (WM) and rational choice theory (RCT). Whereas the WM highlights significant others’ educational norms, RCT cites cost-benefit calculations to explain how aspirations are formed. As it is still unclear how the two approaches interrelate, we apply a third model, namely the model of frame selection (MFS), which allows the integration of both WM and RCT arguments. In short, it suggests that the importance of others’ educational norms moderates the relevance of own cost-benefit calculations. We assume that considering this interrelation is fruitful when explaining aspirations in general, and specifically when explaining immigrant students’ aspirations, who often perceive high educational obligations by their parents. Using data from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), we test prognoses derived from the three theoretical models for their relevance when explaining the aspirations of Turkish and German students. Results indicate that the processes suggested by both WM and RCT shape aspirations. Consistent with the MFS, these processes also interrelate in that parents’ educational norms reduce the relevance of students’ own cost-benefit calculations. This interrelation does not only apply to Turkish students but holds for all students in the sample.","PeriodicalId":47079,"journal":{"name":"Rationality and Society","volume":"105 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135373074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Externality and taboo: Resolving the Judaic pig puzzle 外部性与禁忌:解决犹太猪之谜

4区社会学

Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2023-10-05 DOI: 10.1177/10434631231203890

Peter T Leeson, Vincent Geloso, Nicholas A Snow

{"title":"Externality and taboo: Resolving the Judaic pig puzzle","authors":"Peter T Leeson, Vincent Geloso, Nicholas A Snow","doi":"10.1177/10434631231203890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10434631231203890","url":null,"abstract":"Judaic law famously bans pigs. For millennia, scholars have wondered why. This paper uses the economics of property rights to resolve the puzzle. We argue that the Judaic pig ban was an instrument for internalizing swine externalities. Free ranging pigs in search of sustenance trespass on agricultural landowners’ property, wreaking destruction. Activities that foster such pigs thus create negative externalities that can cripple agricultural economies. When the expected cost of swine externalities becomes large, internalization becomes worthwhile: lawmakers with a vested interest in the agricultural economy ban activities that foster free ranging pigs. That is what transpired in ancient Judah, where lawmakers were priests whose livelihoods depended on agriculture, where all swine ranged freely, and where the expected cost of swine externalities surged during the late Iron Age. Lawmakers invoked God to enjoin involvement with pigs because a supernatural injunction was cheaper to enforce than a natural one: in a land of faithful Hebrews, Yahweh’s swine prohibition enforced itself. The Judaic pig ban’s features are consistent with pig bans recently adopted by US states such as Montana, which everyone agrees are instruments for internalizing swine externalities.","PeriodicalId":47079,"journal":{"name":"Rationality and Society","volume":"301 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135483411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An analytical narrative of the Day of Dupes 杜普斯日的分析叙事

IF 1 4区社会学

Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2023-08-20 DOI: 10.1177/10434631231194142

B. Crettez, Régis Deloche, Ronan Tallec

{"title":"An analytical narrative of the Day of Dupes","authors":"B. Crettez, Régis Deloche, Ronan Tallec","doi":"10.1177/10434631231194142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10434631231194142","url":null,"abstract":"On November, 11th, 1630, Queen Marie de’ Medici demanded, in vain, that her son, King Louis XIII, dismiss Richelieu as Principal Minister. Historians agree that this crisis known as the Journée des Dupes (the Day of the Dupes) was the true foundation stone of French “absolutism”, but they disagree about whether the decision made by the Queen was rational. We analyze the historical setting of the crisis from a game theory viewpoint where the King and the Queen are two players. We consider two assumptions regarding the King and the Queen’s cognitive skills. On the one hand, we assume that both the King and the Queen are perfectly rational. On the other hand, we assume that they both have limited cognitive skills (that is, they are level-k players). In this last case we propose a definition of naivety and we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the Queen to be naive. We then study the Nash equilibrium when both the King and the Queen are perfectly rational as well as the behavioral theoretical solution of the game when they have limited cognitive skills. We rely on this study to propose an analytical narrative of the Journées des Dupes. We conclude that what we know of the historical facts does not allow us to reject the assumption that the Queen was perfectly rational, or, if she was not, that she had not been naive.","PeriodicalId":47079,"journal":{"name":"Rationality and Society","volume":"35 1","pages":"480 - 501"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49666508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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