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"In the first part of this paper, Blossfeld discusses some of the historical reasons why
the explosion of rational choice scholarship in the social sciences has had surprisingly
little influence on macro-sociological data analysis. In the second part, he shows that
any theoretically powerful sociological analysis of a macro-sociological problem must
pay attention to both structural- and micro-Ievel issues but not in the usual static way. Any macro-micro framework must recognize that time is significant in this relationship.
It must identify the particular historical structures and processes that dominate the
changes occurring in a given population, and it must specify the causal mechanisms
that allow us to trace the encounters of intentionally acting individuals with the flow of history as a series of choice processes."
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