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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 discursive and up-to-date reference work analyzing this approach’s classic arguments and assumptions in the light of contemporary issues in sociology, ec...

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Other Authors: Bulle, Nathalie (Editor), Di Iorio, Francesco (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Subjects:
Economic Sociology
Sociological Theory
Economics / Psychological Aspects
Sociology
Economic Psychology
Science / Philosophy
Philosophy Of Science
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part I – MI/ Methods and Key Research Topics in the Social Sciences
  • 1. MI/History/Religious Phenomena; David D’Avray
  • 2. MI/Organized Action; Erhard Friedberg
  • 3. MI/Collective Intentionality; Jens Greve
  • 4. MI/Culturalism/Multiculturalism; Simon Langlois
  • 5. MI/Educational Inequality; Ye Liu
  • 6. MI/ Social Movements; Anthony Oberschall
  • 7. MI/Historical-Sociological Explanation; Richard Münch
  • MI/Deviance; Michael Rosenberg
  • 8. MI/Theories of Social Change; Michael Schmid
  • 9. MI/Cultural Anthropology; Richard A. Shweder
  • 10. IM/Kelsen/Social Theory
  • 11. IM/Kelsen/Social Theory; Stephen P. Turner
  • Part 2 - Controversial Issues about MI
  • 12. MI and its Critics/Analytical Philosophy; Alban Bouvier
  • 13. The Limitations of the Economic Approach/MI; Olivier Favereau
  • 14. Contemporary Debates on RCM/MI; Catherine Herfeld
  • 15. Reductionism/MI; Francesco Di Iorio
  • 16. Agent-Based Computational Models/MI; Gianluca Manzo
  • Part IV. Methodological Individualism and its Critics: A Roundtable Discussion
  • 30. Institutional Individualism and Methodological Individualism; Joseph Agassi, N. Bulle & F. Di Iorio
  • 31. MI and Critical Realism; Margaret Archer
  • 32. Methodological Localism and Methodological Individualism; Daniel Little, N. Bulle & F. Di Iorio
  • 33. MI/Reductionism/Social Facts; Steven Lukes, N. Bulle & F. Di Iorio.
  • 17. MI and Political Individualism; Branko Mitrovik
  • 18. Reductionism/Invisible Hand Explanations; Emma Tieffenbach
  • 19. The Individualism-Holism Debate in Economics; Richard Wagner
  • 20. MI/Methods and Political Assumptions in Sociology, Holistic Biases; Ieva Zake
  • Part III - MI in Practice
  • 21. Beliefs/Religions: Case Studies; Salvatore Abbruzzese
  • 22. Sociological Analysis of Singular Phenomena; Raymond Boudon
  • 23. ABS/IM/Empirical Case Studies; Shu-Heng Chen
  • 24. MI, Unintended Consequences and Economic Empirical Research; Christopher J. Coyne
  • 25. Understanding Radicalization; Hans Kippenberg
  • 26. MI/Mathematical Models of Social Action; Werner Raub
  • 27. MI/Understanding the Meaning of Social Action; Natalia Ruiz-Junco
  • 28. MI/Anthropology and Identities; Gunther Schlee (Max Planck Institute, Emeritus, Germany): MI/Anthropology and Identities
  • 29. MI/Risk and Uncertainty/Catastrophes/Covid19; Bryan Turner

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