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In the initial chapter Schutz praised Max Weber's views on value-freedom in social science and the autonomy of science vis-à-vis other activities (e.g. politics), and he commended Weber's methodological individualism and ideal-type methodology.

This approach aims to correct the methodological individualism and lack of context characteristic of traditional law and economics.

I guess a Marxist would have problems with the whole idea of methodological individualism, and a Galbraithian would have problems with the idea that self-interest can be defined without taking into account the ability of advertisers and so forth to shape preferences.

Watkins (1952a), between methodological individualism and methodological holism.

Fodor introduces it by way of a distinction between "methodological individualism" and "methodological solipsism".

He will trumpet both methodological individualism and group selection, positions often viewed as mutually exclusive.

There are three main foundations of Public Choice theory: methodological individualism, behavioral symmetry, and "politics as exchange". The first two are represented in nearly all work that identifies as "Public Choice," but politics as exchange is often forgotten or de-emphasized.

This volume counters such methodological individualism by exploring recent and influential work in the life sciences that utilizes notions of collectivity, sociality, rich interactions, and emergent phenomena as essential explanatory tools to handle numerous persistent scientific questions in the life sciences.

It was this debate between Watkins and his critics that (perhaps unfairly) solidified the association in many people's minds between Popper and methodological individualism.

Thus one way of accentuating the difference between atomism and methodological individualism is to note that the former entails a complete reduction of sociology to psychology, whereas the latter does not.

It is worth emphasizing the difference between methodological individualism, in Weber's sense, and the older traditions of atomism (or unqualified individualism) in the social sciences.