Overview
Presents the first comprehensive overview of methodological individualism
Explores the history of methodological individualism and discusses contemporary debates
Examines the intersection of MI with other key intellectual traditions in economics and sociology
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Founding Principles of Methodological Individualism and its Historical Emergence
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Methodological Individualism and the Rationality Principle
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Methodological Individualism and the Micro-Macro Link
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About this book
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, economics and philosophy. This two-volume handbook presents the first comprehensive overview of methodological individualism. Chapters discuss historical and contemporary debates surrounding this central approach within the social sciences, as well as cutting edge developments related to the individualist tradition with philosophical and scientific implications. Bringing together multiple contributions from the world’s leading experts on this important tradition of theorizing, this collective endeavor provides teachers, researchers and students in sociology, economics, and philosophy with a reliable and critical understanding of the founding principles, key thinkers and intellectual development of MI since the late 19th century.
Reviews
Paul A. Roth, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
“This is a tremendous survey, both wide-ranging and original, a veritable mother lode of useful analyses, from some of the leading figures in the field. The editors are to be congratulated”.
Barry Smith, The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
"This is a truly heroic accomplishment. The two volumes provide a unique treasure of multifarious perspectives and insights into key issues in the ontology, epistemology and methodology of social sciences. This giant collection will be immensely useful for students and researchers alike.”
Uskali Mäki, University of Helsinki, Finland
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nathalie Bulle is Research Director at the National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France.
Francesco Di Iorio is Associate Professor at Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism
Book Subtitle: Volume I
Editors: Nathalie Bulle, Francesco Di Iorio
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41512-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41511-1Published: 27 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41514-2Due: 10 January 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41512-8Published: 27 December 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 755
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Economic Psychology, Sociological Theory, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology