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    STUDIA SOCIOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2014  
         
  Article:   RAYMOND BOUDON`S FORMAL MODELLING AND ORDINARY RATIONALITY.

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  Abstract:   With the departure of Raymond Boudon on the 10th of April 2013, sociology lost an outstanding and unusual character. Explaining social phenomena entails understanding individual reasons; such is the main idea reintroduced in sociology by Boudon through the notion of methodological individualism. From his initial work on formal modelling of social phenomena to the theoretical elaboration of ordinary rationality, he kept on delivering a message of optimism tinged with voluntarism: sociology can under certain circumstances be a science like any other.

Keywords: Raymond Boudon, inequality, sociology as science, formal modelling, rationality
 
         
     
         
         
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