1st Edition
Methodological Individualism Background, History and Meaning
By Lars Udehn
Copyright 2002
464 Pages
by
Routledge
468 Pages
by
Routledge
464 Pages
by
Routledge
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Throughout the history of social thought, there has been a constant battle over the true nature of society, and the best way to understand and explain it. This volume covers the development of methodological individualism, including the individualist theory of society from Greek antiquity to modern social science. It is a comprehensive and systematic treatment of methodological individualism in... Read more
List of figures, Preface, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction, 2 Background, 3 Psychologism in early social science, 4 Austrian methodological individualism, 5 Society as subjectively meaningful interaction, 6 Positivism in philosophy and social science, 7 Popperian methodological individualism, 8 Economics: the individualist science, 9 The new institutional economics, 10 Rational choice individualism, 11 Why methodological individualism?, 12 Methodological individualism restated, Notes, Bibliography, Index of author names, Index
Biography
Lars Udehn
