Action Theories
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- Created on: 02-06-18 15:47
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- Action Theories
- We shape society
- Weber: Social Action Theory
- Adequate sociological explanations involve level of cause + meaning
- Individualistic
- Never truly understand an action
- Individualistic
- Adequate sociological explanations involve level of cause + meaning
- Weber: Social Action Theory
- Symbol Interactionism
- Society shaped by individuals
- Mead
- Need to see ourselves as other see us through symbols = function in society
- Respond to world by giving meaning to things significant to us - interpretative phase comes between the stimulus and the response
- Blumer
- actions
based on
meaning given to situation which
comes from
interaction (negotiable) ,
meanings
due to
interpretation
- Actions predictable but not fixed
- Labeling Theory
- Situation defined as real, means has to be true = affects how we act = consequences
- Career: Through labeling, individual has a career running from 'symptoms' leading to being labelled and its consequences thereafter on the individual
- Self-concept arises out of ability to take on role of other = acts as looking glass to us - SFP become what others see us as
- actions
based on
meaning given to situation which
comes from
interaction (negotiable) ,
meanings
due to
interpretation
- Goffman's dramaturgical model
- Construct self through by manipulating others impressions of us ( actors convincing performance)
- Impression management: present particular image to audience by adjusting to their response
- Freedom in role we play in society - don't always believe the role we play
- Goffman's dramaturgical model
- Construct self through by manipulating others impressions of us ( actors convincing performance)
- Impression management: present particular image to audience by adjusting to their response
- Freedom in role we play in society - don't always believe the role we play
- Freedom in role we play in society - don't always believe the role we play
- Impression management: present particular image to audience by adjusting to their response
- Construct self through by manipulating others impressions of us ( actors convincing performance)
- Goffman's dramaturgical model
- Freedom in role we play in society - don't always believe the role we play
- Impression management: present particular image to audience by adjusting to their response
- Construct self through by manipulating others impressions of us ( actors convincing performance)
- Need to see ourselves as other see us through symbols = function in society
- Mead
- Doesn't explain how actors create meanings
- Society shaped by individuals
- Phenomology
- Husserl: world only makes sense bc we impose meaning and order on it
- Garfinkel: Ethnomethodology
- Interested in how social order is constructed by its members
- Meanings
are always
potentially
unclear
(indexiclity),
nothing has
fixed meaning
- Reflexibility
(common
knowledge
construct
order) enables
us to behave
as if meaning
is clear
- Strive to
impose order
by seeking
patterns
even though they're just social
constructs
(coroner
& suicide)
- Pattern suicides are mentally ill becomes part of coroners taken-for-granted knowledge = sim. cases assumes same pattern
- Reflexibility
(common
knowledge
construct
order) enables
us to behave
as if meaning
is clear
- Strive to
impose order
by seeking
patterns
even though they're just social
constructs
(coroner
& suicide)
- Pattern suicides are mentally ill becomes part of coroners taken-for-granted knowledge = sim. cases assumes same pattern
- Pattern suicides are mentally ill becomes part of coroners taken-for-granted knowledge = sim. cases assumes same pattern
- Strive to
impose order
by seeking
patterns
even though they're just social
constructs
(coroner
& suicide)
- Reflexibility
(common
knowledge
construct
order) enables
us to behave
as if meaning
is clear
- Pattern suicides are mentally ill becomes part of coroners taken-for-granted knowledge = sim. cases assumes same pattern
- Strive to
impose order
by seeking
patterns
even though they're just social
constructs
(coroner
& suicide)
- Reflexibility
(common
knowledge
construct
order) enables
us to behave
as if meaning
is clear
- Meanings
are always
potentially
unclear
(indexiclity),
nothing has
fixed meaning
- Craib - findings trivial bc taken-for-granted rules turn out not to be a surprise
- Interested in how social order is constructed by its members
- Giddens: Structure & Action
- One can't exist without the other
- Structures make our actions possible e.g. rules of language must be obeyed to understand it
- Depends on action e.g. language wouldn't exist if no one used it + create new
- Structures make our actions possible e.g. rules of language must be obeyed to understand it
- Rules + resources can be reproduced or changed by human action
- reflectively
monitor our
actions and
deliberately
choose a
new course
of action = consequences
- Society's rules
contain a stock
of knowledge
about how
to lives (need feel world orderly)
- underestimates the capacity of structures to resist change - e.g. slaves may wish to abolish slavery but lack the power to do so
- Society's rules
contain a stock
of knowledge
about how
to lives (need feel world orderly)
- Society's rules
contain a stock
of knowledge
about how
to lives (need feel world orderly)
- underestimates the capacity of structures to resist change - e.g. slaves may wish to abolish slavery but lack the power to do so
- reflectively
monitor our
actions and
deliberately
choose a
new course
of action = consequences
- One can't exist without the other
- We shape society
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