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    Supports→Methodological individualism lacks a clear methodological rationale when social science aims only at causal explanation rather than interpretation

    Statistical and structural causal models (Pearl, Woodward) identify causes at whatever level of aggregation yields stable interventionist relationships, which may be supra-individual.

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    Key Terms

    Interventionist(philosophy of causation)
    A way of thinking about cause and effect based on what would happen if you actively changed or intervened in a situation, rather than just observing it passively.
    Level of aggregation(describing where causes can be identified)
    The scale or scope at which you're looking at something—for example, individual people versus groups, or single events versus patterns across many events.
    Pearl, Judea(referenced as a creator of causal models)
    A computer scientist and philosopher who developed modern methods for understanding causation mathematically, especially the idea that we can figure out causes by studying what happens when we change things on purpose.
    Stable interventionist relationships(what causal models identify)
    Reliable cause-and-effect connections that stay the same when you deliberately change one thing and observe what happens to another.

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    Statistical and structural causal models(the main subject of the statement)
    Mathematical frameworks that use data and logical relationships to figure out what causes what, rather than just observing that two things happen together.
    Supra-individual(as used in social philosophy)
    Something that exists beyond or above the level of single individuals—like a group, society, or collective entity that can't be reduced to just its members.
    Woodward, James(His interventionist framework is another theory about what makes explanations good)
    A contemporary philosopher who developed a theory saying that good explanations show what would change if you intervened or manipulated the world in specific ways.

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