Rational choice theory

As a ruler of this country his decisions has to be rational and beneficiary to the United states. But sometimes his final decisions on things don’t always turn out to be the perfect solution, after all he is just a human like us. Obama’s decision on renewing the sanction against Myanmar but tweak it, probably…

The rational choice theorist approach explains Laurell Glenn participation in a peaceful student rally for justice following the death of Freddie Gray who died while in police custody and her worries about police behavior toward the black community. Laurell rational choice was to choose peace instead of rioting and participant of the destruction of her community. Nevertheless, Laurell was deviant in participating in a rally, but necessary to action to bring awareness to others about the police…

the founders of the classical theory phenomenon (Piliavin, 1986). The concept was based on several principles, which entailed three main ideologies; free will, where actions are based on one’s own rationality (Burke 2014), more so punishment should apply to the crime as opposed to the criminal, as the theorists believed that a certainty in punishment would deter both the public and criminal (Akers 1999). The perspective adopted throughout will focus on the theories inability to justify the…

In 1908 Frank Parsons developed a simplistic matching theory whereby he matched people with jobs according to their skills and the skill requirements of employers. This was the first attempt at producing a career guidance theory. The theory is that everybody is different and that these differences can be measured. The requirements of individual jobs can be measured and the two matched up. Consequently you get the right person for the right job. Most careers software programs such as kudos and…

forge an alliance that promoted democracy in Libya by implementing a no-fly zone over Libya to safeguard those who were against Gaddafi (UN, 2011). This alliance eventually contributed to his capture and death by Libya rebel groups. The appraisal theory suggests that emotions are extracted from people’s evaluation and estimations of events that cause particular outcomes (Fetzer & Lauerbach, 2007, p. 123). This may explain why some alliances have lasted for decades such as those of north American…

concepts that are touched upon that aid in explaining how this young boy evolved into a life of juvenile delinquency. The first criminological concept to be examined is Sutherland’s Differential Association Theory and his nine propositions which explain in detail how crime is learned. This theory explains that people learn to commit crime as a result of contact with anti-social values, attitudes, and criminal behavior patterns. This proves to be the most prominent concept because it explains how…

Organizations develop tradition, heritage, and culture as they establish roots in a bureaucratic system. These qualities allow for a myriad of possibilities, and in the Department of Defense, there is a tendency toward inertia to mitigate risk. In Masks of War, Carl Builder extols the principle that technology created the USAF and the USAF tends to rely on technological solutions for its problems. However, even in an organization that embraces technology as a founding principle, the USAF…

education (Reed, 2012). One theoretical standpoint about the educational aspirations tend to propose that it depends upon their “rational calculation” (Reed, 2012), which means that parents first look at their socioeconomic status and then think about their children’s educational goals. This viewpoint involves human capital theory (Becker, 1993) and rational choice theory (Goldthrope, 1998). Since, the refugee families are not living in the UNHCR camps so, they cannot have an access to a school,…

Traditional economics assumes that human beings are rational and will consider all their options before choosing the best choice available to them. In his book “Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions,” however, behavioral economist Dan Ariely points out that human beings cannot be depended on to behave rationally and that expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, apparently illogical forces distort our reasoning abilities. While the field of…

Two of the modern theoretical approaches that I found most interesting are feminism and feminist theory and rational choice. Feminism and feminist theory is defined as “a sociological perspective that emphasizes the centrality of gender in analyzing the social world and particularly the uniqueness of the experience of women” (Giddens, 1996, page 20). Gender is very important and plays a strong role in many aspects of our everyday lives, however people mainly focus on the impact men have rather…