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Viennese Methodological Individualism
Social scientists must continually deal with collective concepts (Kollktivbegriffe) such as “society,” “nation,” “class,” “state,” and so on....
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Complex Methodological Individualism
This chapter contextualizes the question of Methodological Individualism (MI) in the social sciences into a broader and more general scientific...
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Methodological Individualism in Behavioral Economics
This chapter discusses the role of methodological individualism in behavioral economics. Since behavioral economics developed in reaction to...
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Methodological Individualism and Social Change
Theories of Social Change played a central role in explaining the development of modern societies. There are two classes of such approaches:...
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Methodological Individualism and Institutional Individualism: A Discussion with Joseph Agassi
This chapter takes the form of a discussion between the editors of this volume and Joseph Agassi, regarding the relationship between methodological...
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Methodological Individualism and Methodological Localism: A Discussion with Daniel Little
This chapter takes the form of a discussion between the editors of this volume and Daniel Little regarding the relationship between methodological...
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Methodological Individualism and Reductionism
This chapter analyzes the relationship between methodological individualism (MI) and reductionism. While the latter term is mainly used in reference...
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Methodological Individualism and Collective Representations
The aim of this paper is to show that the basic arguments underlying the methodological individualism (MI) tradition are in fact compatible with an...
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Popper’s Methodological Individualism and Situational Analysis
We explicate Popper's methodological individualism (MI), taking into consideration his philosophy as a whole and its development. His MI cannot be...
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Methodological Individualism and Micro–Macro Modeling
This contribution addresses the relation between (macro) hypotheses about social collectives (ranging from dyads to societies) on the one hand and...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism Volume II
While methodological individualism is a fundamental approach within the social sciences, it is often misunderstood. This highlights the need for a...
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Methodological Individualism and Formal Models
This chapter is on when and how formalization and model building contribute to theory construction in methodological individualism. It shows that...
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Max Weber’s Methodological Individualism
In the methodological debates, most diverse theoretical currents repeatedly refer to Max Weber. However, a satisfactory reconstruction of Weber's...
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Methodological Individualism/Sociology of Knowledge/Cognitive Sociology
Fillieule offers a historical and theoretical account of the field of sociology of knowledge from the viewpoint of methodological individualism. His...
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Methodological Individualism in Weber’s Sociology of Religion
Weber was a methodological individualist in that his starting point was individual motivation., but his understanding of individual choices is...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism Volume I
While methodological individualism is a fundamental approach within the social sciences, it is often misunderstood. This highlights the need for a...
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Methodological Individualism and Analytic Philosophy of Action
In this essay Rainone discusses the basic principles of methodological individualism in connection with analytic philosophy of action (the so-called...
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Agent-Based Models and Methodological Individualism: Are They Fundamentally Linked?
The article discusses recent scholarship on whether or not the association between agent-based computational models and methodological individualism...
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Methodological Individualism, Naive Reductionism, and Social Facts: A Discussion with Steven Lukes
This chapter takes the form of a discussion between the editors of this volume and Steven Lukes, one the most eminent critics of methodological...
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Methodological Individualism and Agent-Based Models: A Reply to Manzo
In this chapter, I focus on the stimulating and enriching contribution published by Gianluca Manzo in this handbook under the title “Agent-based...