Rational Choice Sociology

Michael Hechter, Foundation Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University and Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Washington, US

• Contents:Introduction Michael Hechter PART I THEORY1 Michael Hechter and Satoshi Kanazawa (1997), ‘Sociological Rational ChoiceTheory’, Annual Review of Sociology , 23 , 191–214 22 Debra Friedman, Michael Hechter and Satoshi Kanazawa (1994), ‘A Theory ofthe Value of Children’, Demography , 31 (3), August, 375–401 263 Debra Friedman, Michael Hechter and Derek Kreager (2008), ‘A Theory of theValue of Grandchildren’, Rationality and Society , 20 (1), February, 31–63 53PART II COLLECTIVE ACTION4 Michael Hechter (1978), ‘Group Formation and the Cultural Division of Labor’,American Journal of Sociology , 84 (2), September, 293–318 875 David Siroky and Michael Hechter (2016), ‘Ethnicity, Class, and Civil War: TheRole of Hierarchy, Segmentation, and Cross-cutting Cleavages’, Civil Wars , 18(1), January, 1–17 1136 Michael Hechter (2004), ‘From Class to Culture’, American Journal of Sociology ,110 (2), September, 400–445 1307 Michael Hechter, Steven Pfaff and Patrick Underwood (2016), ‘Grievances andthe Genesis of Rebellion: Mutiny in the Royal Navy, 1740 to 1820’, AmericanSociological Review , 81 (1), February, 165–89 1768 Steven Pfaff, Michael Hechter and Katie E. Corcoran (2016), ‘The Problem ofSolidarity in Insurgent Collective Action: The Nore Mutiny of 1797’, SocialScience History , 40 (2), Summer, 247–70 201PART III SOCIAL ORDER9 Michael Hechter and William Brustein (1980), ‘Regional Modes of Productionand Patterns of State Formation in Western Europe’, American Journal ofSociology , 85 (5), March, 1061–94 22610 Michael Hechter and Satoshi Kanazawa (1993), ‘Group Solidarity and SocialOrder in Japan’, Journal of Theoretical Politics , 5 (4), October, 455–93 26011 Sun-Ki Chai and Michael Hechter (1998), ‘A Theory of the State and of SocialOrder’, Homo Oeconomicus , XV (1), 1–26 29912 Michael Hechter (2018), ‘Norms in the Evolution of Social Order’, SocialResearch: An International Quarterly , 85 (1), Spring, 23–51 325Index

'Throughout his long career, Michael Hechter has been one of the discipline's most creative and exacting theorists. This volume pulls together some of his most important publications, showing an extraordinary range of contributions to a variety of substantive problems--from the foundations of social order, to the formation of group solidarity, civil war, rebellion, state structures, and the foundations of class versus identity politics.'--Andrew G. Walder, Stanford University, US'This is one of the finest collections of papers in sociological theory. Michael Hechter's work on sociological rational choice theory captivates with its creative application to a multitude of different topics among them the key questions of solidarity, social change, and social order. Hechter shows that sociological rational choice theory is much more than a utility maximization device. By adding ''value'' to rational choice he elegantly comes to innovative and often surprising explanations of social phenomena. Dealing with the work of this most eminent theorist is a must for any scholar interested in sociological theory and its applications.'--Andreas Diekmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland and University of Leipzig, Germany'Michael Hechter has pioneered the application of rational choice theory to sociology. The range of his contributions--and the extent to which he has refined the theory--is well represented in this collection of seminal essays on key sociological topics, such as demography, nationalism, historical sociology, collective action, state formation and social norms. If the discipline has now acquired firm analytical foundations, it is to a great extent thanks to Hechter's scholarship. No student of sociology can afford to ignore such an extraordinary body of work.'--Federico Varese, University of Oxford, UK