Evaluate the contribution of action approaches to our understanding of social behaviour (20 marker)
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- Created on: 08-05-18 12:10
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- Evaluate the contribution of action approaches to our understanding of social behaviour
- Social Action theory (Max Weber)
- Types of action
- Affectual action
- Traditional action
- Value-rational action
- Instrumentally rational action
- evaluation
- Types of action
- Ethnomethodology (Garfinkel)
- social order is created from bottom up
- interested in methods and rules we use to produce meanings
- indexicality
- threat to social order
- evaluation
- ignores how wider structures of power and inequality affect meanings individuals construct
- denies existence of wider society (shared fiction)
- Craib: ethnomethodologists spend time 'uncovering' taken-for-granted rules that aren't surprising at all
- Structuration Theory (Giddens)
- agency (structure and action)
- one can't exist without the other
- language
- made up of rules of grammar (seems to exist independently and constrains behaviour) but wouldn't exist if no one used it
- we 'reflexively monitor' action (reflecting on our actions and their results)
- changes of structure through agency
- actions may change the world but not in the way we inteded
- evaluation
- Craib: isn't actually a theory because it doesn't explain what actually happens in society
- fails to unite structure and action
- Archer: underestimated capacity of structures to resist change
- Craib: isn't actually a theory because it doesn't explain what actually happens in society
- agency (structure and action)
- Social Action theory (Max Weber)
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