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  • Metodološki individualizam i povijest : ili u kakvom smislu imaju društvena djelovanja uzročnu snagu?
    Kante, Božidar
    The article focuses on a detailed analysis of the notion of methodological individualism in history by opposing it to the notion of methodological holism or collectivism. Methodological individualism ... is expressed in the belief that the ultimate constituens of the social world are particular individuals; according to this fact, the social individuals or facts (for example: social classes, nations, organizations, big events) are to be explained in terms of individual behavior. There are several reasons for rejecting the central tenets of methodological individualism. One of them is P. Pettit's, who claims that a lot of generalizations about social individuals or facts offer us a new or additional information in contrast to facts of involved individuals. Structural explanations are especially convenient when we know the social facts which were causes of social changes, but we have no idea whatever about actions of involved particular individuals. Pettit proposes the program explanations of social facts. But program explanations also have to consider the problem, namely, why so many people acted in the same way. So to explain a collective action from the perspective of individuals, one must draw attention to the source of those common beliefs and desires. The source of those shared beliefs and desires might be social conventions, cultural ideology and objective interests
    Source: Filozofska istraživanja. - ISSN 0351-4706 (God. 19, sv. 3, 1999, str. 477-488)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 1999
    Language - croatian
    COBISS.SI-ID - 9217288

source: Filozofska istraživanja. - ISSN 0351-4706 (God. 19, sv. 3, 1999, str. 477-488)
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