scholarly journals The rational choice of implementing Hamis Batar traditional rituals by the community of Rabasahain Village

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-102
Author(s):  
Hildigardis M. I. Nahak ◽  
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Blajan Konradus ◽  
Dasma Damanik ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
The People ◽  
Science And Culture

Purpose: In this study, this research aimed to find out the process of implementing the Hamis Batar rite and how it means for the people of Rabasahain Village. Research methodology: The approach used in this study is qualitative. The analysis in this study uses the Rational Choice Theory. Respondents were selected by purposive sampling. 6 respondents are consisting of Village Head, 1 Traditional Head and 4 ordinary people who are often involved in the implementation of the Hamis Batar Ritual. Results: The Hamis Batar ritual is a traditional event carried out by the Rabasahain community as a form of gratitude to the creators and ancestors for the harvest obtained and its implementation depending on the agreement of the Fukun, Katuas And Ferik of the traditional house, as well as the readiness of corn as an offering. Based on the research, it can be concluded that the Hamis Batar ritual is categorized as a rational activity because it is considered to have a function and purpose for society. Limitations: This research does not cover more details about the Hamis Batar Ritual. This research only focuses on explaining the process of the Hamis Batar Ritual in brief and showing the ritual as a rational activity. Contribution: This research becomes scientific information for social science and culture. Keywords: Rituals, Indigenous activities, Rational choice theory

scholarly journals Praktik Demokrasi Pasca-Pemilu di Tingkat Lokal: Preferensi para Aktor Elite dalam Perspektif Teori Pilihan Rasional

Humaniora ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
Yustinus Suhardi Ruman
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
The People ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Electoral Democracy

Electoral democracy generates the political elites. Because these political elites are born through a democratic process, they are expected to practice their power in accordance to the basic principles of democracy. One of them is to open the opportunity and acces of people to participatie in decision making proceses. Nevertheless, the problem is that the political elites who were elected through electoral democracy tend to close the participation of citizen in policy making process. To analyze how the political elites formulated the policy and what the rationality of the policy was, this article used rational choice theory. Article used secondary data to analyze the problem. Results of the analysis showed that democracy in local level after elections was determined by rationality, preferences, and interests of the political elites. The practices of power of the elites in local level in the context of rational choice theory made opportunity and access for the people obstructed. It then affects the existing development policies reflect only rationality, preferences, and interests of some elites. 

The Quiet Resolution of the Science Wars

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-79
Author(s):  
Matt Grossmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Confirmation Bias ◽  
Frequentist Statistics ◽  
Science Wars ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

The “science wars” were resolved surprisingly quietly. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, critics of science from humanities disciplines fought with scientists over the extent to which science is a social and biased process or a path to truth. Today, there are few absolute relativists or adherents of scientific purity and far more acknowledgment that science involves biased truth-seeking. Continuing (but less vicious) wars over Bayesian and frequentist statistics likewise ignore some key agreements: tests of scientific claims require clarifying assumptions and some way to account for confirmation bias, either by building it into the model or by establishing more severe tests for the sufficiency of evidence. This sedation was accompanied by shifts within social science disciplines. Debates over both simplistic models of human nature (especially over rational choice theory) and over what constituted proper quantitative and qualitative methods died down as nearly everyone became theoretically and methodologically pluralist in practice. I herald this evolution, pointing to its benefits in the topics we cover, the ideas we consider, the evidence we generate, and how we evaluate and integrate our knowledge.

Is Reputation a Means or an End?

Reputation ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 28-61
Author(s):  
Gloria Origgi
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Social Trait

This chapter is devoted to the theoretical approaches to reputation developed in the different branches of social science that adopt the theory of rational choice. It answers the principal questions of whether reputation can be seen as a rational strategy or as a means to other ends or an end in itself. The chapter explores the various ways in which cultivating one's reputation, given the costs it imposes and the benefits it confers, can be a rational strategy. It examines how several most prominent social scientists approach the questions on reputation. It also treats explanations that synthesize evolutionary theory with rational-choice theory only as “theoretical models” useful for illuminating the conditions for the possibility of the emergence of a social trait, such as reputation.

scholarly journals The dynamics of public support for the king in Yogyakarta

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Pajar Hatma Indra Jaya
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Cluster Technique ◽  
Retrieval Technique ◽  
The People ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Group Interests

The background of this research is the support of the people of Yogyakarta to the sultan to lead Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta. This paper is aimed at examining the relationship between a king and the community in the democracy era. The cases examined specifically in this study were the case of the proposed law of Yogyakarta in the Sutet region, and the ore mining case in Kulonprogo. Research was conducted qualitatively by collecting data through documentation, observation and interview. Informant retrieval technique is done by cluster technique. This research is analyzed by rational choice theory which assumes that people are always trying to optimize the choices that bring benefits (Mallarangeng 2008: 9, Kuper & Kuper 2000: 895). The study had various findings, such that public support of the king could not be explained by the concept of Javanese power and that logical consideration in the form of the interest proximity of each group becomes a concept of public support against the king. When the group interests are closer, they show their support, but, when the gap becomes wider, they readily change their support without fear of karma.

Cultural Contributions to Explaining Institutional Form, Political Change, and Rational Decisions

1999 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 862-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHARLES LOCKHART
Keyword(s):  
Group Theory ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Explanatory Variable ◽  
Institutional Form ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
The Social

Relying on culture as an important explanatory variable is regarded with skepticism by many contemporary political scientists. Yet, doubts about culture's usefulness rest in large part on false perceptions of various sorts. These misunderstandings relegate an important explanatory variable to the social science scrap heap. Accordingly, the author engages in three tasks. First, selected prominent arguments for culture's lack of explanatory usefulness are discussed. Second, it is demonstrated how at least one conceptualization of culture, Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky's grid-group theory, overcomes aspects of these difficulties and contributes to explaining institutional form and political change. Third, it is argued that grid-group theory contributes significantly to both institutional analysis and rational choice theory. Grid-group theory augments each of these latter two approaches and, more important, reveals complementary aspects, linking these modes of analysis together as mutually supportive elements of a more inclusive explanatory scheme.

Defending the role of rationality in the social sciences, rationally

2020 ◽  
pp. 053901842096344
Author(s):  
Tibor Rutar
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
The Social

Peter T. Leeson and Tobias Wolbring agree with me that rationality, properly clarified, should continue to assume an important theoretical role in modern social science. We disagree, however, about the precise extent of its role. In my reply to the debate I focus on two related issues that have emerged. First, can and should the concepts of rationality, or rational choice theory (RCT) more generally, be employed as something more than just one tool among many? Second, can all cases of norm-following be satisfactorily subsumed by rationality and RCT analysis?

Exploitation in the New Marxism of Collective Action

1987 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Brewer
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Contemporary Society

The ‘new Marxism of collective action’ is a term Lash and Urry have recently used to describe a new intellectual current in Marxism which seeks to apply rational choice theory, and particularly game theory, to key Marxian concepts like collective action, class, revolution and exploitation. This current is seen as part of a general shift within social science away from structure towards agency. This paper focuses on a concept which Lash and Urry's outline ignored: namely, exploitation. Granting the concept this attention is useful for a number of reasons. Firstly, by summarizing the general debate on the concept, both within the new Marxism of collective action and outside, the paper allows the discussion of exploitation to be placed in the context of the more general debate between structuralist and humanistic versions of Marxism; especially in the context of the debate about whether there can be a Marxist theory of ethics and injustice. Secondly, by outlining how the concept is understood by advocates of the new Marxism of collective action, the paper accords the concept the central status which advocates reserve for it. In consequence, the paper identifies differences between advocates of the new Marxism of collective action with respect to how exploitation is to be understood, which suggest that the intellectual current is not as homogeneous as Lash and Urry imply. Moreover, the paper stresses that the differences between them with regard to exploitation are more than just unhelpful disagreements over matters of definition, but represent fundamental disagreements about the validity of Marx's original formulations in contemporary society.

scholarly journals Eksistensi Hiburan Kibot pada Acara Resepsi Pernikahan Masyarakat Tamiang

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Abdul Robby ◽  
Rakhmadsyah Putra Rangkuty
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Interactive Analysis ◽  
The People ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Research Findings

This research focuses on the causes of kibot entertainment still exist in Tamiang society and the motives of people choosing kibot as entertainment. Coleman's rational choice theory was used in analyzing research data. The research method is a qualitative approach with data collection techniques such as observation, interviews, and documentation. Meanwhile, the data analysis technique in this study used an interactive analysis method. The research findings illustrate that people see kibot as a rational choice based on economic value considerations because of its affordable prices. Kibot entertainment also has social value as a prestige that is given through the recognition of others. In addition, the existence of kibot entertainment is based on the guidance of people around them who help them with their work at the wedding reception. On the basis of these motives, kibot entertainment continues to exist in demand by the Tamiang community, especially the people of Kampung BaboAbstrakPenelitian ini berfokus pada penyebab hiburan kibot masih eksis di tengah masyarakat dan motif masyarakat memilih kibot sebagai hiburan. Teori pilihan rasional Coleman digunakan dalam menganalisis data penelitian. Metode penelitian yaitu pendekatan kualitatif dengan teknik pengumpulan data berupa observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Sementara teknik analisis data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan metode analisis interaktif. Temuan penelitian menggambarkan masyarakat melihat kibot sebagai sebuah pilihan rasional atas pertimbangan nilai ekonomi karena harga yang terjangkau. Hiburan kibot juga memiliki nilai sosial sebagai sebuah prestise atau gengsi yang diberikan melalui pengakuan orang lain. Selain itu, eksistensi hiburan kibot dilandasi oleh tuntunan dari orang-orang sekitar yang membantu pekerjaan mereka dalam acara resepsi pernikahan. Atas dasar motif-motif tersebut menjadikan hiburan kibot tetap eksis diminati oleh masyarakat Tamiang khususnya masyarakat Kampung Babo.

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