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Methodological individualism

Known as: Individual (disambiguation), Methodological Individualist 
Methodological individualism is the requirement that causal accounts of social phenomena explain how they result from the motivations and actions of… Expand
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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Methodological Individualism and Holism in Political Science: A Reconciliation
Political science is divided between methodological individualists, who seek to explain political phenomena by reference to… Expand
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
An Alternative to Methodological Individualism: A Non-Reductionist Approach to Studying Technology Adoption by Groups
Studies on groups within the MIS discipline have largely been based on the paradigm of methodological individualism. Commentaries… Expand
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Meanings of methodological individualism
Advocacy of ‘methodological individualism’ is widespread, especially among economists. However, the term is rarely defined with… Expand
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Methodological Individualism, Spontaneous Order and the Research Program of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
This paper is an exercise in the archeology of knowledge that seeks to understand the intellectual precursors to the Workshop in… Expand
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences
Losing the Traditional Individualization and 'Precarious Freedoms' A Life of One's Own in a Runaway World Individualization… Expand
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Doing Business in the 21st Century with the New Generation of Chinese Managers: A Study of Generational Shifts in Work Values in China
Our goal is to develop a profile of Chinese managers, and in particular a profile of the New Generation of Chinese managers. The… Expand
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Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
The malaise of modernity
An automatic reel hub assembly which is easily manufactured and assembled includes an axially movable central shaft, a generally… Expand
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Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Individualism and collectivism: Cross-cultural perspectives on self-ingroup relationships.
The individualism and collectivism constructs are theoretically analyzed and linked to certain hypothesized consequences (social… Expand
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Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
Methodological Individualism Reconsidered
In what follows I discuss and (hopefully) render harmless a doctrine which has a very long ancestry, has constantly reappeared in… Expand
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Highly Cited
1962
Highly Cited
1962
The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke
This important reinterpretation of political theory from Hobbes to Locke not only freshly illuminates the thought of that period… Expand
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