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Individualism in social science : forms and limits of a methodology / Rajeev Bhargava.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bhargava, Rajeev, author.
- Series:
- Oxford philosophical monographs.
- Oxford philosophical monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Methodology.
- Social sciences.
- Individualism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 271 pages).
- Other Title:
- Forms and limits of a methodology
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this work, the author argues for a non-individualist strategy in the social sciences - one that encourages an independent study of social contexts, and a contextual study of individual beliefs and actions.
- Contents:
- I. Forms of Methodological Individualism
- 1. Methodological Individualism
- Strands in methodological individualism
- Explanatory individualism
- On two criticisms of MI
- Ontological individualism
- II. The Limits of Explanatory Individualism
- 2. Methodological Individualism as a Form of Reductionism
- Conceptual reduction
- Explanatory reduction
- Correlatory reduction: EI-2
- Micro-reduction: EI-3
- Ruben against Microreduction
- Does a prima-facie distinction between the social and the individual exist?
- 3. Methodological Individualism and the D-N Model
- Laws in the social sciences
- The role of laws in explanation
- The redundancy of laws
- Pragmatic aspects of explanation
- 4. Methodological Individualism: Intentionalism
- The structure of intentional explanation: The Elster-Davidson view
- Intentionalism applied
- The limits of intentionalism
- III. The Limits of Ontological Individualism
- 5. The Social Dimension of Meaning
- Individualists assumption of theories of meaning
- The challenge to the individualist assumption: Putnam's theory of the meaning of natural-kind terms
- The division of linguistic labour
- Expert-meaning, skill, and practices
- 6. The Non-Individualist Challenge: Contextualism
- Social beliefs
- Social practice
- What contextualism is
- What contextualism is not
- Contextualism applied.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 0-19-168056-7
- 0-19-824279-4
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