理性选择理论面临的挑战及其出路

The Rational Choice Theory(RCT) has been confronted with challenges and difficulties both theoretically and methodologically.Two trends cause economists increasingly to apply RCT to the social field,and some sociologists make their criticism more radically,even the “economic imperialism”.This paper proposes rethinking RCT on the base of new performance and some important revisions of the theory.By discussing questions such as the peasant rationality,family rationality,oriental rationality and collective action rationality in the experiential studies,the paper tends to answer how to realized the social rational choice based on individual rational choice,and what the possible perspective of development of RCT is.