Mon, 10 Oct 1994 05:55:06 -0700 for <socgrad@ucsd.edu>
Date:         Mon, 10 Oct 94 08:45:08 EDT
From: Alan <DAVIDSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu>
Subject:      Rational Choice theories
To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU
     One piece that is missing is it matters very much, especially in terms
of one's assumptions of the human agent and the contexts they act within
and upon, where preferences come from.  If preferences are strictly norm-driven
 then, one's options for action are relatively strictly proscribed, both with
respect to observers in a particular context as well as actors themselves.
  I, however, preferences are purposively left multifarious, then, much more
room is allowed for, and much more attention is paid to people's actions.