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Introduction: the puzzling scope of rationality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

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The question of how social norms and the rational pursuit of interests combine into social action continues to be one of the core puzzles of social theory. The essays by Jon Elster and Ralph Turner and the comments by Margaret Levi and Steven Lukes published in the following pages of the Archives are fine and, we believe, representative contemporary examples of how social scientists try to come to terms with this puzzle.

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The puzzling scope of rationality
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Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1991

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(1) Scharpf, Fritz W., Games real actors could play: The problem of mutual predictability, Rationality and Society, II (1990) 4, 471–494.Google Scholar