The central argument of this book is that methodological individualism--the view that all social phenomena are explicable in ways that only involve individuals--is seriously challenged by a different approach in social science called contextualism. At the outset of his book, Rajeev Bhargava designs a two-fold programme. First, to identify the significant versions of methodological individualism, and to assess both their plausibility and feasibility. Second, to articulate contextualism as a rival conception of social science ...
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The central argument of this book is that methodological individualism--the view that all social phenomena are explicable in ways that only involve individuals--is seriously challenged by a different approach in social science called contextualism. At the outset of his book, Rajeev Bhargava designs a two-fold programme. First, to identify the significant versions of methodological individualism, and to assess both their plausibility and feasibility. Second, to articulate contextualism as a rival conception of social science and to show that it is superior to even the most plausible forms of methodological individualism. This book challenges this assumption by claiming that methodological individualism is neither trivial nor obviously true. The author presents this challenge by outlining an equally, if not more, credible non-individualist alternative. The dispute over individualism versus holism in social science is best treated here.
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As New in As New jacket. This is a study of methodological individualism, the view in social science that all social phenomena must be accounted for in terms of what individuals think, choose, and do; the author, a Professor of Philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, challenges the assertion that methodological individualism is obviously true but trivial and attempts to revive the debate between individualists and non-individualists; he argues that once the individualist assumptions are challenged, the way is clear for a rehabilitation of non-individualist methodology which permits an independent study of social contexts, and a contextual study of the beliefs and actions of individuals (black cloth with gold lettering; publisher's review copy slip afixed to front endpaper; black & green dust jacket with white lettering and red stripes is enclosed in clear mylar cover; a bright, clean, tight copy)
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