While methodological individualism is a fundamental approach within the social sciences, it is often misunderstood … first comprehensive overview of methodological individualism. Chapters discuss historical and contemporary debates … of Economics; Peter Boettke -- 5. Actuality of the Weberian paradigm /MI; Thomas Schwinn -- 6. Holism and Individualism …

-reductionist explanations that undermine the widespread theory of the equivalence between methodological individualism and reductionism. We will …This paper investigates the systemic nature of methodological individualism. According to widespread belief, the notion … of autonomy of the actor that is defended by methodological individualism is mistaken because it is incompatible with the …

‘constructivist methodological individualism': a commitment to studying the making, interpretation, implementation, development and …

The distinction between methodological individualism and rational choice theory is elaborated and a simple point is … argued, that seems to be systematically neglected: methodological individualism is a postulate which is part of the … metalanguage about social scientific theories, whereas rational choice theory is designed to offer explanations of human action and …