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What year marks the origin of Methodological Individualism: the early framework of Max Weber, or the later coining of the term itself?

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The source already cited on this entity credits Max Weber with introducing the individualist account of social action, and states that the economist Joseph Schumpeter is generally credited with coining the term methodological individualism itself in the early twentieth century, but names no specific year for either event, so origin-year cannot be assigned without picking a date the source does not give.

What would resolve this A source stating the specific year Joseph Schumpeter coined the term methodological individualism, or the specific year the individualist account of social action by Max Weber was first published, cited clearly enough to distinguish the two events.
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    In the social sciences, methodological individualism is a method for explaining social phenomena strictly in terms of the decisions of individuals, each being moved by their own personal motivations.
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The term "methodological individualism" was coined in 1908 by the Austrian-American economist Joseph Schumpeter as a name for Weber's views on explaining social phenomena.
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