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Intentional, unintentional and sub-intentional aspects of social mechanisms and rationality

Alban Bouvier

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In this paper, I criticize recent programs and sub-programs in analytical sociology regarding the lack of attention they pay to the issues of rationality and intentionality. I put forward the idea that the rationalist paradigm in social sciences is not reducible to Rational Choice Theory. I also argue that establishing a dichotomy between intentional and unintentional processes is too simplistic: we also need to consider sub-intentional processes. Indeed, I focus in particular on interpersonal commitment (e.g. shipmates committed with each other to row as much efficiently as possible), a kind of social process that may be either intentional or sub-intentional. I then explore the empirical relevance of this conception of commitment by analyzing several historical examples-borrowed from contemporary processes of decolonization and secession-of political commitments or alleged commitments.
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Alban Bouvier. Intentional, unintentional and sub-intentional aspects of social mechanisms and rationality: The Example of Commitments in Political Life. Gérald Bronner; Francesco Di Iorio. The Mystery of Rationality: Mind, Beliefs and Social Sciences, Springer, pp.17-36, 2018. ⟨hal-04076575⟩
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