1. Editor’s column: Rational choice and the fate of debate

   • Jonathan B. Imber

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 3

2. Introduction

   • Guillermina Jasso

   EditorialNotes Pages: 4 - 5

3. Overview: The paradoxical relationship between sociology and rational choice

   • Douglas D. Heckathorn

   OriginalPaper Pages: 6 - 15

4. On limitations of rational choice theory for sociology

   • Peter M. Blau

   Article Pages: 16 - 21

5. Rational choice theory

   • William J. Goode

   Article Pages: 22 - 41

6. Rational choice models in sociology

   • Joan Huber

   Article Pages: 42 - 53

7. Rational choice and the sociology of age: Heuristic models

   • Matilda White Riley

   Article Pages: 54 - 60

8. The place of rational choice in criminology and risk analysis

   • James F. Short

   Article Pages: 61 - 72

9. Is rational choice humanity’s most distinctive trait?

   • Dennis H. Wrong

   Article Pages: 73 - 81

10. James S. Coleman as a guide to social research

    • Charles Tilly

    Review Essay Pages: 82 - 87