文档介绍：Methodological Individualism
Background, history and meaning
Lars Udehn
London and New York
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First published 2001
by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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©2001 Lars Udehn
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Udehn, Lars, 1948-
Methodological individualism : background, history, and meaning /
Lars Udehn.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Individualism. I. Title.
HM1276 .U33 2001
~4-dc21 2001019663
ISBN 0-415-21811-x
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Contents
List of figures x
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xii
1 Introduction 1
2 Background 7
The social contract 7
The invisible hand 10
Classical economics 11
German historicism 19
Positivist sociology 27
Holism and collectivism 38
3 Psychologism in early social science 41
British psychologism 43
John Stuart Mill 43
Utilitarian economics 49
German psychologism 58
The rise of psychology 58
Wilhelm Dilthey 67
Simmel 73
Psychologism on trial 77
4 Austrian methodological individualism 87
Carl Menger 87
Max Weber 95
Joseph Schumpeter 104
Ludwig von Mises 107
Friedrich von Hayek 114
The Austrian influence 121
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Society as subjectively meaningful interaction 126
Symbolic interactionism 127
Phenomenological sociolo