Rationality and Society was founded by editor James S Coleman in 1989. Today, 32 years later, the rational action paradigm continues to be an intellectual point of reference appealing to social scientists who strive for theoretically consistent, analytically precise, empirically refutable, and practically useful theories of social phenomena. When Douglas D Heckathorn became the journal’s editor in 2000, he emphasized the potential of this paradigm for binding together a community of scholars from a variety of disciplines within the pages of the journal. Here they would exchange and discuss diverse research topics and social problems with a range of different methods and theories. In the two decades since, this vision has been impressively realized, as experts in fields including sociology, economics, political science, public administration, psychology, demography, and computer science, have published research in this journal.

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Rationality and Society 的编辑转型：新任编辑的说明

理性与社会由编辑 James S Coleman 于 1989 年创立。 32 年后的今天，理性行动范式仍然是一种智力参考点，吸引着那些力求在理论上一致、分析精确、经验上可反驳和实际有用的社会理论的社会科学家。现象。当 Douglas D Heckathorn 于 2000 年成为该杂志的编辑时，他强调了这种范式的潜力，可以将来自不同学科的学者群体结合在该杂志的页面内。在这里，他们将用一系列不同的方法和理论交流和讨论不同的研究主题和社会问题。在此后的二十年里，这一愿景令人印象深刻地实现了，因为社会学、经济学、政治学、公共管理、心理学、人口学、