Norms or rationality? The rescue of Jews, electoral participation, and educational decisions.

Autor/inn/en	Kroneberg, Clemens; Stocké, Volker; Yaish, Meir
Titel	Norms or rationality? The rescue of Jews, electoral participation, and educational decisions. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Normen oder Vernunft? Die Rettung von Juden, Wahlbeteiligung und Bildungsentscheidungen.
Quelle	Mannheim (2006), 42 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion Paper / Universität Mannheim, SFB 504 Rationalitätskonzepte, Entscheidungsverhalten und ökonomische Modellierung. 06-09
Beigaben	Tabellen 8; grafische Darstellungen 6
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungsverhalten; Bildungsziel; Rational-Choice-Theorie; Soziales System; Soziale Norm; Soziales Verhalten; Judenverfolgung; Antisemitismus; Wahlbeteiligung; Zivilcourage; Normativität
Abstract	"In sociology it has been much debated whether the normativist-culturalist or the rational choice perspective better explains social phenomena. Since each has received considerable empirical support, an integrated account of norms and rationality is much needed. The Model of Frame Selection offers such an integration. In this model, cost-benefit calculus is replaced by unconditional norm conformity if norms are strongly internalized. We test this proposition in three fields of application: the rescue of Jews in WWII, electoral participation, and the decision among secondary school tracks. In line with the predictions of the Model of Frame Selection we find that strong helping norms, intense norms of civic duty, and high educational aspirations lead actors to disregard the risk of helping Jews, the incentive to express political preferences, and the prospects to complete school tracks." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2008/3