INDIVIDUALISM IN SOCIAL SCIENCE by Rajeev Bhargava ( 9780198242796 )

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INDIVIDUALISM IN SOCIAL SCIENCE
FORMS AND LIMITS OF A METHODOLOGY

By:

Rajeev Bhargava

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 June, 1992

Series:

Oxford Philosophical Monographs

Pages:

280

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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 contextrelatively 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.

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