ABSTRACT
Can rational action theory unify social science? Less ambitiously, can it unify sociology, or some significant slice of overlap among the discipline? This chapter will consider the question from two angles. The first part treats the analytical possibilities as to what might be accomplished along this line, grounded in what has happened thus far. The second part takes the viewpoint of the sociology of science, considering to what extent the multiple factions of the intellectual world are capable of uniting under a single theoretical banner.
