ACTION THEORIES
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- ACTION THEORIES
- Max Weber: social action theory
- Types of Action
- instrumentally rational action
- means of achieving a goal
- value-rational action
- goal actor regards as desirable
- traditional action
- customary, routine or habitual actions
- affectual action
- express emotion
- instrumentally rational action
- Types of Action
- Symbolic Interactionism
- G.H. Mead
- symbols versus instincts
- taking the role of the other
- Herbert Blumer
- actions are based on meanings we give
- meanings arise from the interaction process
- meanings arise from the interaction process
- meanings we give from interpretive procedures we use
- actions are based on meanings we give
- Labelling Theory
- the looking-glass self - Cooley
- how we develop our self concept
- see ourselves through eyes of others
- label part of persons self concept
- take on role of 'mental patient'
- the looking-glass self - Cooley
- Goffman's Dramaturgical Approach
- impression management
- present an image to our audiences
- roles
- role distance between our real self self and our roles
- impression management
- G.H. Mead
- Phenomenology
- Husserl's Philosophy
- world only makes sense bcos we impose meaning on it
- Shutz's Phenomenological Sociology
- typifications
- meaning given to exp depends on its social context
- the natural attitude
- society appears to us as real
- once society is socially constructed
- takes on own life & becomes external reality
- typifications
- Husserl's Philosophy
- Ethnomethodology - Garfinkel
- indexciality & reflexivity
- nothing has fixed meaning
- language as an example of reflexivity
- experiments in disrupting social order
- challenge people's taken-for-granted assumptions
- Suicide and reflexivity
- humans constantly strive to achieve patterns
- patterns are just social constructs
- humans constantly strive to achieve patterns
- indexciality & reflexivity
- Structure & Action
- Giddens' Structuration Theory
- duality of structure
- neither can exsist without the other
- reproduction of structures through agency
- structure has two elements
- rules - norms
- resources - raw materials
- structure has two elements
- change of structures through agency
- 1. reflexively monitor our own action
- 2. actions change the world - not as we intended with unintended consequence
- duality of structure
- Giddens' Structuration Theory
- Max Weber: social action theory
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