Methodological individualism
Method of analysis in the social sciences / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In the social sciences, methodological individualism is a framework that describes social phenomena as a consequence of subjective personal motivations by individual actors. Class or group dynamics which operate on systemic explanations, are deemed illusory, and, thus, rejected or de-prioritized, however, group dynamics for which there are individual subjective motivations are upheld. With its bottom-up micro-level approach, methodological individualism is often contrasted with methodological holism,[1] a top-down macro-level approach, and methodological pluralism.[2]