Is rational choice the best choice for understanding the peasant? A constructivist reading of the rational choice controversy

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Politics - Region: South Asia, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg (Sudasieninstitut Abteilung Politische Wissenschaft), course: Rationalitat und Politik in Sudasien: Kultur, Kontext und vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, language: English, abstract: In this essay I will try on the one hand to critically examine the reservations held against rationa...