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  • Submitted By: alf2
  • Date Submitted: 12/02/2008 9:57 AM
  • Category: Social Issues
  • Words: 364
  • Page: 2
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The article presented by Pescosolido represents the notion of how society constructs a framework to make decisions. She goes on to say how the social organization strategy or “SOS” affects the individual’s choice to develop patterns of decisions, learn, understand, and cope with certain difficulties in their lives. Furthermore, she argues the point that social interaction is creating what we define as social structure and limits possible within society and individuals alike. The argument is furthered as in “rational choice theory and economic psychology presents but one way of exploring this social action” and most relevant is the understanding of decision making in sociology. In turn, the “SOS” proposed by this journal is social network and even centered. This means that it is a sequence of intertwined theories beginning with human nature and social life and combining them with the ability for people to maximize provided resources, putting these to proper use within rationality. In addition, the article provides a model of decision making based on the idea of “revised rational choices, combining multiple sociological theorist views.
The methodology used in this article combines a array of idealists from network theorists to symbolic interactionists. The next step in this is taking simple data from different analysis and applying it to the methods of sociology, anthropology, economics, and history used throughout. The data used was quite specific and included such variables such as race, age, education, employment, marital status, and insurance. Discussing the variable instances of choices one makes in society. Using this methodology allows the research of new sociological problems to be critiqued and looked at in a new and non-traditional light. Also, using this data based information combined with viewpoints of several areas of study allows these sociological problems to be worked through and develop a new course of action. The affects of this...

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