Individualism in Social Science
Forms and Limits of a Methodology
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 18 June 1992
- ISBN 9780198242796
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 225x145x22 mm
- Weight 506 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures 0
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Short description:
Professor Bhargava carefully disentangles the different forms of methodological individualism, and then identifies the key assumption of its most plausible version: that beliefs are attitudes individuated entirely in terms of what lies within the individual mind. He argues that once this assumption is challenged it is possible to rehabilitate a non-individualist methodology which permits a contextual study of beliefs and actions, and even a study of social context relatively independent of the beliefs and actions of individuals.
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The literature on methodological individualism is characterized by a widely held view that if the doctrine were stated with sufficient care it would be seen to be trivially true. Professor Bhargava questions this view. He begins by carefully disentangling the various formulations of the doctrine, identifies its most plausible version, and finally locates the principal assumption underlying it, namely that beliefs are attitudes individuated entirely in terms of what lies within the individual mind. Bhargava argues that once this individualist assumption is challenged it is possible to rehabilitate a non-individualist methodology which permits a contextual study of beliefs and actions, and even a study of social context relatively independent of the beliefs and actions of individuals.
'this book is one of the most accomplished works critiquing Methodological Individualism that has appeared anywhere ... the book will deservedly establish a major international reputation for the author ... Setting such a high standard, however, can be both rewarding and frustrating. Rewarding in obvious ways and frustrating because mediocrity is rarely comfortable recognising excellence.'
Achin Vanaik, Indian Express, May 1993
Table of Contents:
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
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