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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Individualism in Social Science
• Subtitle: Forms and Limits of a Methodology
• Author: Rajeev Bhargava
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 280
• EAN: 9780198242796
• ISBN: 0198242794
• ID: 04523938
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 506 g
• Dimensions: 225 × 145 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. June 1992

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