Individualism in Social Science : Forms and Limits of a Methodology

ISBN-13: 9780198242796 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 288 str.

Rajeev Bhargava

Recenzje

a very good book ... one that is clear, very carefully argued, well-organized, with a firm mastery of the relevant literature, and breath-taking from cover to cover. ... his presentations are always sufficiently detailed and his re-constructions precise and sophisticated. ... he certainly succeeds in reassembling the issues which urgently deserve careful examination by social scientists and philosophers and, in so doing, is setting the agenda for new debates in contemporary social science. I strongly recommend the book to every one who thinks that something can be improved in that domain, and still more strongly to those who think the opposite.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1. Methodological individualism; Forms of methodological individualism; Part 2. The limits of explanatory individualism; Methodological individualism as a form of reductionism; Methodological individualism and the D-N model; Methodological individualism : intentionalism; Part 3. The limits of ontological individualism; The social dimension of meaning; The non-individualist challenge: contextualism