"In many cases, it cannot be thought in terms of individuals.
But when you talk about it in terms of individuals, it is much tougher.
School officials were classical liberals who saw the world in terms of individuals, not races.
I think we've had some massive success stories in terms of individuals that have come through the programme.
Psychologist Chris Cocking, from the University of Brighton, says: "Describing riots in terms of individuals snapping doesn't explain why crowds get involved".
At the same time, experimental techniques have been developed which allow theories stated in terms of individuals' expected utility to be examined under controlled conditions.
Yet in terms of individuals Colley is emphatic that "becoming a patriot was a political act, and often a multifaceted and dynamic one"; a stance it is essential to understand to come to terms with Britain's past - and its present.
Consequently, under the premise that there was no technical bias, the number of reads obtained after PCR and NGS will probably be more closely correlated to their fractional biomass than abundance in terms of individuals.
Whereas classical economics tried to explain the world in terms of individuals acting to maximise their financial self-interest, behaviouralists, thinking fast and slow, have proved that our rational capacity is often undermined by more intuitive forces.
Two widely heralded yet contested approaches to economics have emerged in recent years: one emphasizes evolutionary theory in terms of individuals and institutions; the other views economies as complex adaptive systems.
Methodological holism maintains that at least some social phenomena must be studied at their own autonomous, macroscopic level of analysis, that at least some social "wholes" are not reducible to or completely explicable in terms of individuals' behaviour (see emergence).
