Methodological Individualism

This book highlights the theoretical bases of methodological individualism, as defined and developed in the writings of its founders and early advocates. Making available in English texts by Menger, Schumpeter, Simmel and Weber, it provides key insights into one of the essential methodological paradigms in the social sciences.

Nathalie Bulle is a sociologist research director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, Groupe d'Etude des Méthodes de l'Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne) in France. Her interest in the analysis of human thought, in its common or scientific form, is at the core of her work applied to educational ideas and the epistemology of the social sciences. She has published articles on methodological individualism in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, the Journal of Classical Sociology, and L'Année sociologique. http://www.nathaliebulle.com/