Action Theories
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- Created on: 11-06-14 20:34
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- Action Theories
- Origins
- Weber
- challenged trad struct theories
- considered role of indivs in soc
- BB
- qual data - PEOPLE in soc - micro
- people have free will & choice - not cont by inst - possess agency
- we can create & shape soc through our actions
- Weber
- Social Action Theory
- Weber
- Types of action
- 4 diff mean people give to actions
- 1) instrumentally rat actions
- calc most efficient way of reaching goal
- 2) trad actions
- routine, habitual actions - like a reflex
- 1) instrumentally rat actions
- 4 diff mean people give to actions
- Types of action
- EVAL
- prob of verstehen - can't be other person so don't und their motives
- hard to app typology - hard to disting bet diff mean for actions
- trad or rat?
- too indiv - don't exp shared nature of shared mean i.e. raise hand in auction
- Weber
- Symbolic interactionism
- BB
- give mean to sits & convey these mean using symb e.g. lang
- emph how create world through act & interaction
- Mead
- symb vs instinct
- beh isn't fixed by instincts
- resp to world using mean i.e. red = danger
- don't respond to stimulus in pre-det way - have interpretive phase before we act
- beh isn't fixed by instincts
- Taking role of others
- inter mean of others
- verstehen - devel this as child ==> 'imitative play' e.g. parents
- through shared symb
- become consc of how we act & what others expect of us
- this creates pred & soc order
- become consc of how we act & what others expect of us
- inter mean of others
- symb vs instinct
- Labelling
- this is application of symb int ideas
- inc:
- def of sit (how we def a sit = label)
- something is real if bel - "dev beh... " (Becker)
- looking glass self (Cooley) - our self concept ==> f/ ab to take role of others ==> SFP
- def of sit (how we def a sit = label)
- inc:
- EVAL
- too determ & seeing people being shaped by way others lab them
- this is application of symb int ideas
- EVAL
- not all actions are meaningful
- some unconsc
- most actions improv & un-reh
- not all actions are meaningful
- BB
- Phemonology
- BB
- focus on phenomenom
- refers to things as they appear to our senses
- no definate knowl of world outside our minds
- focus on phenomenom
- Husserl
- world makes sense because we impose mean & order to it
- can only gain knowl about world through categ & giving mean to our exp
- Schutz
- app these ideas to social world
- cat & concepts we use aren't unique to ourselves - share w/ others
- shared cats = typifications
- help us org our experiences into shared world of mean
- mean of given exp varies accord top its context e.g. raise arm in auction = diff to in class
- way of stab & clarif mean - vital for soc order
- help us org our experiences into shared world of mean
- app these ideas to social world
- BB
- Ethnomethodology
- BB
- Garfinkel - soc isn't real objective structure 'out there'
- conc w/ soc order & why this happens
- Garfinkel - soc isn't real objective structure 'out there'
- Indexicality & reflexivity
- mean = unclear (indexicality)
- nothing has fixed mean - threat to soc order
- sugg we can't take mean for granted - but we beh in way that treats mean as obvious (reflexivity)
- how we use common sense knowl in everyday interact to construct a sense of mean e.g. lang
- mean = unclear (indexicality)
- EVAL
- find = trivial - focus too much on uncovering taken-for-granted rules which we all know anyway
- ig power & ineq - mean in Cap soc = linked to power or r/c
- BB
- Origins
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