Identity, Interest and Action (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
252
Utgivningsdatum
1996-10-01
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Medarbetare
Erik, Ringmar
Illustrationer
fig.2M.
Volymtitel
Identity, Interest and Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War
Dimensioner
240 x 160 x 22 mm
Vikt
520 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
9:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Case Laminate on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780521563147

Identity, Interest and Action

A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War

av Erik Ringmar
Inbunden,  Engelska, 1996-10-01
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This book offers an original combination of cultural and narrative theory with an empirical study of identity and political action. It is at once a powerful critique of rational choice theories of action and a solution to the historiographical puzzle of why Sweden went to war in 1630. Erik Ringmar argues that people act not only for reasons of interest, but also for reasons of identity, and that the latter are, in fact, more fundamental. Deploying his alternative, non-rational theory of action in his account of the Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years War, he shows it to have been an attempt on behalf of the Swedish leaders to gain recognition for themselves and their country. Further to this, he demonstrates the importance of questions of identity to the study of war and of narrative theories of action to the social sciences in general.
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"Erik Ringmar has done a neat job of comparing rational-choice models of decision making with cultural ones in Identity, Interest and Action....this is a powerful little study, smoothly written and tightly argued that sheds light on many different areas of sociology." James M. Jasper, Contemporary Sociology

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Acknowledgements; Introduction: the beginning of the story; Part I. A Narrative Theory of Action: 1. Historical and scientific explanations; 2. The modern orthodoxy; 3. A narrative theory of action; Part II. Why Did Sweden Go to War in 1630?: 4. Historical and cultural preliminaries; 5. Fighting for a national interest; 6. Fighting for a national identity; Conclusion: the end of the story?; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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