http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/philosophy-of-social-science Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:46:29 -0400 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:46:29 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/369/emile-durkheim-and-methodological-individualism By Alexander P. Young - In Smith’s initial formulation, the ‘invisible hand’ was a mechanism of beneficial outcomes, but the methodological individualist approach also accounts for negative social occurrences such as racial segregation: in the model given by Rosenberg, the ‘rational’ disposition to living around a given fraction of people of our own race may lead to a situation of practically perfect segregation – even in situations where we would prefer to live in integrated neighbourhoods. In this situation, if (for example) we wish to live with a minimum of one-third of people our... Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:49 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/369/emile-durkheim-and-methodological-individualism