TY - BOOK ID - 77903966 TI - Culture, structure, or choice?: essays in the interpretation of the British experience PY - 1990 SN - 1280656050 0875862713 9780875862712 0875860877 9780875860879 0875862640 9780875862644 9786610656059 6610656053 PB - New York Agathon DB - UniCat KW - Consensus (Social sciences). KW - Great Britain -- Economic conditions. KW - Right of property -- Great Britain. KW - Consensus (Social sciences) KW - Legitimacy of governments KW - Capitalism KW - Right of property KW - Protestantism KW - Governments, Legitimacy of KW - Legitimacy (Constitutional law) KW - Revolutions KW - Sovereignty KW - State, The KW - General will KW - Political stability KW - Regime change KW - Authority KW - Common good KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Christianity KW - Church history KW - Protestant churches KW - Reformation KW - Ownership of property KW - Private ownership of property, Right of KW - Private property, Right of KW - Property, Right of KW - Property rights KW - Right of private ownership of property KW - Right of private property KW - Right to property KW - Civil rights KW - Property KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77903966 AB - The study of politics has been profoundly influenced in the post-war era by the introduction of concepts and explanations that highlight the role of culturally determined norms and values in shaping the political process.This study examines three main perspectives from which the social sciences are discussed, and compares the divergent theories by which social, economic, and political phenomena may be explained. Rational-choice theory is contrasted with the structuralist and the culturalist perspectives. The controversy is then given substance through the introduction of three issues central ER -