Individualism in Social Science: Forms and Limits of a Methodology

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