On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Eubulides wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Miles Jackson" <cqmv at pdx.edu>
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> However, at another level of analysis, a society is an agent, and
> the agency of a society is just as "real" as that of any specific
> individual.
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> One need not be a methodological individualist to think there are
> *serious* problems with the above assertion.
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> Ian
You sound like a strict Darwinist arguing with Gould about species or clade selection! Why the glorification of the individual organism? If we don't need to do that in evolutionary theory, we sure as hell don't need to do it in social theory.
Miles