None for all! The moderate holistic alternative to Hartmut Esser's model of sociological explanation

The article is an answer to Hartmut Esser's "One for All? The Weber Paradigm, the Moderate Methodological Holism Concept and the Sociological Explanation Model", published earlier in this journal (KZfSS 58: 352-363). It explicates the differences between Essers sociological explanation model and the alternative model of moderate methodological holism. It analyses Esser's misunderstandings and shows that his model - contrary to Esser's "official" announcement - doesn't entail the concept of macrodetermination, which is rightly so, because it doesn't fit with Essers reductionist approach. The ontological and anthropological conceptions underlying the two explanation models are very different and lead to different methodologies.