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Bio: (-) American sociologist. Michael Hechter got his Ph.D. in Sociology in , from Columbia University, and taught at the universities of Arizona and Oxford, and today he teaches at the University of Washington.
Hechter deals with the problems of the theory of rational choice; values and norms; the problem of social order; group solidarity and nationalism.
Michael hechter biography
He sought to solve the "Hobbesian" (Thomas Hobbes) problem of social order, and in that context, he applied theories of rational choice. Hechter believes that the concept of rational egoism used by classical theories of rational choice is not enough to explain the phenomenon of cooperation and collective action, and therefore cannot be the basis for explaining the social order.
To improve the theory of rational choice, Hechter focuses on two new areas of study. To better understand the social order, it is necessary to study the "aggregation mechanism", that is, the process by which different individual actions are combined