In recent years, the ability of holistic social theories to account for the rights, duties, and even reality of the individual, has been more and more often called into question. At the same time, interest in individualism in a variety of forms has been gaining ground, both as an object of study and as a methodology. This important collection brings together essays by eminent social scientists from several countries. They discuss the question of individualism from historical, methodological, hermeneutical, political, and ...
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In recent years, the ability of holistic social theories to account for the rights, duties, and even reality of the individual, has been more and more often called into question. At the same time, interest in individualism in a variety of forms has been gaining ground, both as an object of study and as a methodology. This important collection brings together essays by eminent social scientists from several countries. They discuss the question of individualism from historical, methodological, hermeneutical, political, and sociological points of view and attempt to reconcile methodological individualism with the classical approach of sociological theory, based on collective identity. Together, the articles comprise a major contribution to a topical and widening debate.
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Physical description; vi, 340 pages; 23 cm. Notes; First published in French as Sur l'individualisme: théories et méthodes: Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1986. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The gaffe-avoiding animal or a bundle of hypotheses / Ernest Gellner--Individualism and holism in the social sciences / Raymond Boudon--Marxism and methodological individualism / Jon Elster--Marxism and rational choice / Adam Przeworski--Community, individualism, and culture / Bertrand Badie--The citizen-individual in Western Christianity / Guy Hermet--Individualism and citizenship / Jean Leca--Individual mobilization and collective action / Charles Tilly--Individualism, mobilization, and collective action / François Chazel--Individual action, collective action and workers' strategy / Pierre Birnbaum--Is the voter an individualist? / Georges Lavan--On the rationality of democratic choice / Alessandro Pizzorno. Subjects; Individualism. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.
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