%0 Journal Article
%T The Analytical Micro¨CMacro Relationship in Social Science and Its Implications for the Individualism
%A Gustav Ramstr£¿m
%J Philosophy of the Social Sciences
%@ 1552-7441
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0048393118789793
%X This article argues that the tradition within the individualism-holism debate of importing arguments from the micro¨Cmacro discussion in other disciplines (e.g., philosophy of mind and philosophy of biology) significantly has hampered our understanding of the ¡°individual-social¡± relationship. While, for example, the ¡°neural-mental¡± and ¡°atomic-molecular¡± links represent empirical ¡°gives rise to¡± relationships, in the social sciences the micro¨Cmacro link is a purely analytical ¡°qualifies as¡± type of relationship. This disanalogy is important, since it has significant implications for the individualism-holism debate: (a) it implies a phenomenally monist social ontology and (b) it disqualifies the notion of social macro causation
%K micro¨Cmacro relationship
%K individualism-holism debate
%K macro causation
%K social ontology
%K methodological individualism
%K nonreductive individualism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0048393118789793