Methodological Individualism

In the social sciences, infinite discussions are underway, including fundamental issues between methodological individualism and methodological totalitarianism. This is why among these researchers such deep discussion touches our personal and social nature, our understanding of these, and the "persistence" of good social ideas. According to Parsons (1937), methodological individualism is a proposition in social phenomena and must be explained by showing how these results are derived from individual behaviors. .

The main attraction of methodological individualism is ideology. Paul Thompson (Curtler 1986, pp. 127 - 128) treats methodological individualism as an ideological position, supports social views determined by individual choice, and attempts to interfere with individual behavior in the market are natural I suggest that it is putrefying. Economic Order Many individualist critics against collective moral responsibility have the desire and belief that only individuals can act, the group can not make a choice and can not be achieved depending on the group's intention It shows that it can not be done. For example, Edmund Wall 's statement on corporate organization represents this position.

According to Christian Arnsperger and Yanis Varoufakis, the definition of Neoclassical economics has three axioms: methodical individualism, methodological instrumentism, and axiomatic equilibrium. Methodological individualism is the "subject" of neoclassical economics, showing that everyone is fully understood and reasonable. Methodological instrumentalism describes how preferences are used to maximize demand for goods, services, and / or profits. Equilibrium axiomization is described as "agent's behavioral behavior is coordinated so that it is sufficiently regular to produce reliable predictions" (Arnsperger and Varoufakis, 5).

Popper believes that social science should accept methodological individualism and situation analysis, not historicism or utopian aggregatism. In the definition of Popper, methodological individualism thinks that behavior of social institution should be analyzed according to the behavior of individuals making up it. Part of this individualistic motivation is that Popper's say that many important social institutions like the market are not the result of any conscious design, but rather the harmonious behavior of a broad individual of motivation It is based on an assertion. Then scientific assumptions about these unplanned institutional behaviors must be expressed in the form of component participants. For Popper and Hayek, defending methodological individualism in social sciences plays an important role in their broad debate of supporting liberalism, market economy, and planned economy.