Difference between revisions of "Methodological Individualism (propaganda)"
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{{DES | des = Individuals always exist within and are entwined with societies. Actually adhering to methodological individualism would mean ignoring families, households, corporations, governments and all other social groups in analysis. It is obviously stupid to ignore these sorts of emergent properties. Methodological individualism also blinkers us to social interactions. A [[Greedy Reductionism|greedy reductionist]] (in the words of [[Daniel Dennett]]) attempt to oppose "[[Collectivism|collectivist]]" theories with invalid models of atomistic individuals. | show=}} | {{DES | des = Individuals always exist within and are entwined with societies. Actually adhering to methodological individualism would mean ignoring families, households, corporations, governments and all other social groups in analysis. It is obviously stupid to ignore these sorts of emergent properties. Methodological individualism also blinkers us to social interactions. A [[Greedy Reductionism|greedy reductionist]] (in the words of [[Daniel Dennett]]) attempt to oppose "[[Collectivism|collectivist]]" theories with invalid models of atomistic individuals. | show=}} | ||
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| + | Methodological individualism also provides no way to solve prisoner's dilemmas or the waste of zero-sum status competitions. Indeed, it insist on a blindness to joint benefits in general. | ||
Another obvious problem is that individuals are heterogenous (not all alike.) Methodological Individualism provides no way to deal with heterogeneity, whether the cases are discrete or continuous. | Another obvious problem is that individuals are heterogenous (not all alike.) Methodological Individualism provides no way to deal with heterogeneity, whether the cases are discrete or continuous. | ||
