理性选择研究在经济社会学中的核心地位与方法错位

The attitude toward rational choice in sociology has changed from refusal, introduction to acknowledgement. The research on rational choice is always the core of New Economic Sociology developed since 1970’s. Only by taking rational choice research, rather than social network research, as a starting point, could people understand and hold the theoretical substance of New Economic Sociology. Although New Economic Sociology has extended the field of theoretical view on rational choice, with many non-economic factor’s entry into the view of rational choice which does not satisfy computation, the principle of computation and the principle of utility maximum on instrumental reason or object reason have nothing changed since then, which directly lead to the error of research methods through which economic sociology explore rational choice.