situational analysis and situational logic

situational analysis and situational logic

a methodological ideal, most closely associated with METHODOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALISM and the work of POPPER, in which it is proposed that social situations are analysed in terms of the motivations and goals of social actors and the logical implications of these, without recourse to either ‘psychologism’ or ‘sociologism’.

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