Methodological Individualism

theories 272–3; organic conception273; origin 272; rational choice 274–5;working of 272statistics 181–2, 234, 356, 373Steuart, James 241–2Stigler, George J. 121, 285Strauss, Anselm 131, 133–4, 153structural individualism 76, 77, 197–9,318–19, 371–2structuralism 144, 154–5, 162, 383;Coleman’s 295–7, 301–6structuration 187Stryker, Sheldon 136subjectivism 115–17, 120–1, 146–7, 155,159–60, 342, 359Sugden, Robert 284suicide 181–2, 371Sumner, William Graham 359Suppes paradigm 325Swedberg, Richard 188–9, 300symbolic interactionism 64, 126, 153, 165,368; Chicago School 131; described127; face-to-face 134–5; intersubjective131–3, 134, 136; Iowa School 131;looking-glass self 127–8; psychologicaltheory of self 128–31; as socialcontract 133–4; structuralist 135,136–7; Thomas’s theorem 128systematic empiricism 179–89, 372–3Tarde, Gabriel 35–7, 64, 65, 126, 180Taylor, Michael W. 31, 312, 313, 319Thomas, Robert Paul 277–8, 281Thomas, William I. 65, 66, 127, 128Tiryakian, Edward A. 137, 149Titchener, Edward B. 63Tocqueville, Alexis de 119, 307Tool, Marc R. 256transaction costs, asset specificity 268;frequency 268; uncertainty 267–8transcendental ego 143transcendentalism 143transformation functions 197, 199Tullock, Gordon 294Turgot, A.R.J. 378Turner, Jonathan H. 369Turner, Ralph 136, 153Ullmann-Margalit, Edna 284uncertainty 121universalism 102, 112Urry, John 187utilitarianism 44, 49–58, 123–4Index 449Vanberg, Victor 283Varoufakis, Yanis 253–4Veblen, Thorstein 256, 281verbalism 178verstehen 26–7, 114, 189Verthaltenstheorie 196–9Vico, Giambattista 21–2, 25Vienna Circle 173–8Vining, Rutledge 235–8, 377Virginia School 230, 234, 258, 273, 338,345Völkerpsychologie 46, 61–2, 68, 126, 127Vromen, Jack J. 283–4Wagner, Adolf 33Waismann, Friedrich 173Walras, Leon 12, 49, 53, 57, 87, 238, 243,244, 376, 377, 378Watkins, John W.N. 2, 207, 211–18, 233,312, 318, 321, 323, 330, 334, 337, 342Weber, Ernst Heinrich 60Weber, Max 25, 106, 189, 207, 263, 307,318, 324, 342; atomism 99; because/inorder to motives 139; collectiveconcepts 98–100, 99, 101, 103;concept/reality conflation 98;economics 96–7; emergence of thestate 272; on empiricism 322;explanatory understanding 72–3;individualism 99–100, 101–2, 103, 120,126, 163; methodological issues 97,97–8, 114, 138; political economy 365;power/authority distinction 265–6;psychologism of 332–3; and rationalchoice 291; rationality in economics 94,95–7; social action 100–1, 102, 140;sociological analysis 80, 99–103;subjective society 302Weber–Fechner law of psychophysics 60whole-part distinction see part-wholedistinctionWicksteed, Philip 52, 53–4, 121, 122, 361Wieder, Derek L. 153Wieser, Friedrich von 92, 230, 333Willer, David 195Willey, Thomas E. 130William of Ockham 168Williamson, Oliver E. 256, 258, 266–8,271, 276Wilson, Thomas P. 153Winch, Peter 155Windelband, Wilhelm 77, 78Winter, Sidney G. 258, 267, 282, 285–6