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Contents10 Rational choice individualism 288Rational choice sociology 290James Coleman 292Raymond Boudon 306Analytical Marxism 309Jon Elster 310John Roemer 316Structural individualism 31811 Why methodological individualism? 320Philosophical background 321Reductionism 324Scientific reduction 324Psychologism 331Microfoundations 336Normative individualism 336Political individualism 337Humanism 339Conclusion 34512 <strong>Methodological</strong> individualism restated 346Strong and weak methodological individualism 346Versions of strong methodological individualism 349Explanatory methodological individualism 354ixNotes 357Bibliography 388Index of author names 437Index 441
Figures1.1 A graphic representation of methodological individualism 52.1 The theory of the social contract 92.2 Adam Smith’s theory of the invisible hand 112.3 Emile Durkheim’s rules of sociological method 342.4 Social wholes and collectives 403.1 John Stuart Mill’s psychologistic methodological individualism 494.1 Carl Menger’s theory of social institutions 914.2 Actions and institutions according to Robert Nozick 1254.3 Individuals in society according to Weber, Mises and Hayek 1255.1 Society according to symbolic interactionism 1365.2 Society according to phenomenological sociology 1445.3 Society according to ethnomethodology 1605.4 Berger and Luckmann’s dialectic of individual and society 1615.5 A mapping of some sociological theories in a two-dimensional space 1656.1 Mario Bunge’s methodological systemism 1866.2 Roy Bhaskar’s transformational model of the society/personconnection 1876.3 Hedström and Swedberg’s typology of social mechanisms 1887.1 Popperian institutional individualism 2278.1 The elements of the economic system according to Keynes 2328.2 The methodological individualism of general equilibrium theory 2459.1 Social institutions as endogenous variables 2869.2 Social institutions as endogenous and exogenous variables 28710.1 Coleman’s micro–macro scheme 29910.2 <strong>Methodological</strong> individualism according to Coleman 30010.3 Coleman’s micro–macro scheme extended in time 30110.4 Social structure as a determinant of individual action 30310.5 Social structure as positions to be filled 30510.6 Structural individualism 31812.1 The individualistic research programme, or versions of strongmethodological individualism 35312.2 Deductive–nomological explanations 355
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