This book seeks to identify the main threads of a resolutely complex course of thought which has contributed greatly to sociology.

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