Nathalie Bulle is a sociologist research director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, Groupe d'Etude des Méthodes de l'Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne) in France. Her interest in the analysis of human thought, in its common or scientific form, is at the core of her work applied to educational ideas and the epistemology of the social sciences. She has published articles on methodological individualism in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, the Journal of Classical Sociology, and L'Année sociologique. [...]

Chapter 1. The turmoiled emergence of methodological individualism within the social sciences landscape: a path to its understanding.

Chapter 2. Carl Menger (1883). On the theoretical understanding of social phenomena that are neither the products of convention nor of positive legislation, but the unintended results of historical development.

Chapter 3. Joseph Schumpeter (1908). Methodological individualism and the emergence of the marginalist school of economics.

Chapter 4. Georg Simmel (1905-1907). The intrinsic conditions of historical knowledge and the mental nature of history.

Chapter 5. Max Weber (1922). The basic concepts of sociology.