Christian Robitaille is a lecturer (assistant professor) in sociology at Liverpool Hope University. His research focuses on theories of rationality, epistemology, the sociology of action, and the history of social scientific thought.Robert Leroux was a professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa. His main research interests were linked to the history of social sciences, French thought, epistemology, and theory.

• List of Contributors; Introduction - Christian Robitaille; Chapter 1. Raymond Boudon’s Methodological Individualism- Massimo Borlandi; Chapter 2. Methodological Individualism as an Explanatory Practice: Raymond Boudon and the Implicit Methodology of Tocqueville’s and Durkheim’s Empirical Sociology - Francesco Di Iorio and Enzo Di Nuoscio; Chapter 3. The Idea of Rationality in Raymond Boudon’s Theory: A Discussion - Pierre Demeulenaere; Chapter 4. Raymond Boudon and Moral Value Judgments: Interaction and Substance - Emmanuel Picavet; Chapter 5. The Epistemology of Beliefs in Boudon’s Sociology: From the Social Subject to the Evolution of Politics, Morality and Religion - Nathalie Bulle and Jean-Michel Morin; Chapter 6. Some Theoretical Deductions from Boudon’s Model of Social Mobility - Renaud Fillieule; Chapter 7. For a Critique of “Critical Sociology”: Raymond Boudon’s Tools for the Intellectual Rebuilding of the Discipline - Alexander Riley; Chapter 8. Raymond Boudon’s Social Theory as a General Research Program: Applications of Boudon’s Work Since His Death (2013-2023) and Future Perspectives - Christian Robitaille; Index

Most of the contributions in the book focus on his [Boudon’s] perspectives regarding methodological individualism and extended rationality. [...] The book includes critical remarks that extend the sociologist’s thought and clarify certain aspects that deserve re-examination, as is the case with any great scientific work. —The Tocqueville Review