KnowraMethodological individualismLinked fromLinked fromThe 21 pages that link to Methodological individualism, each with the reason it gives.All 21Related 6Narrower topic 1Compared with 14Émile DurkheimCompared with: It challenges Durkheim’s insistence that social facts require explanations at the social level.SociologyCompared with: It raises the question of whether collective patterns can be explained from individual action alone.Collective responsibilityCompared with: It challenges explanations that treat a collective as an independent bearer of responsibility.Economic determinismCompared with: It challenges explanations that assign decisive causal power to economic structures above individuals.InterpretivismCompared with: It can reduce explanation to individual action, whereas interpretivism also examines shared cultural meanings.Actor–network theoryCompared with: ANT instead follows relations among people, objects, and institutions.Social factCompared with: It challenges explanations that treat social facts as irreducible collective forces.HolismCompared with: It offers a rival starting point for explaining institutions and collective outcomes.Social theoryCompared with: It challenges explanations that treat social structures as independent causal forces.Structure and agencyCompared with: It gives explanatory priority to individual action rather than social structures.Social practiceCompared with: Practice theory shifts attention from isolated actors to organized activity and shared conditions.The Rules of Sociological MethodCompared with: Durkheim rejects reducing social facts to individual motives.Charles Horton CooleyCompared with: Cooley resisted separating individuals from the social relations through which they develop.Criticism of MarxismCompared with: It disputes explanations that treat classes or economic structures as primary historical agents.