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    Disciplines and Ideas in Social Sciences

    Activity Sheet
    Name: ________________________________ Section: ______________
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    Dominant Approaches and Ideas in the Social Sciences: Rational Choice Theory

    Think Of Me!
    Directions: Read and analyze the situation below. What is your response if you will be in this situation?

    1. It’s been almost seven months that tourism shuts down due to the pandemic disease. But now, little by little,
    tourism industries open up. Being a travel wanderer, will you go out for the first time and maximize the time
    you’ve lost because of community quarantines or you prefer to stay at home and wait until the disease will be
    finally gone?

    _______________________________________________________________________________________________
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    _______________________________________________________________________________________________

    2. What comes to your mind, if you heard the word “institution”?

    ESSAYhan Lang Natin!


    Direction: Answer the following questions in two or three sentences. Write your answers on the space provided.

    1. How do people make choices according to Rational Choice Theory?

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    3. How can social phenomena be explained according to Rational Choice Theory?
    ____________________________________________________________________________________________
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    4. How do institutions constrain human behavior according to institutionalism?
    ____________________________________________________________________________________________
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    5. How do formal institutions differ from informal institutions?
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    Identify Me!
    Direction: Identify the concept being described in each number. Write your answers in your study notebook.

    1. People act based on or in accordance with reason or logic. ___________________

    2. People will choose the object that provides the greatest reward at the lowest cost. ____________________

    3. Credited for establishing rational choice in sociology. ____________________

    4. “Rules of the game”. _______________________________

    5. The most important key institutionalist figure. __________________________

    6. Rules outside government or church. ______________________


    Assessment
    Directions: Complete the table by showing a brief description, contributors, strengths and criticisms of the lesson
    (Rational Choice Theory & Institutionalism) being discussed.

    THEORIES DESCRIPTION CONTRIBUTORS STRENGTH CRITICISMS

    Rational Choice
    Theory

    Institutionalism
    Essay
    Directions: Using a space provided below, discuss your answers on the following statement. Make sure that you will
    utilize at least five sentences.

    “A person is likely to help someone in need if in his past experiences, his actions have been rewarded”

    - George Homan

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