Social Action Theory & Methods
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- Created on: 26-09-19 19:15
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- Social Action Theory
- Structuration
- Weber
- Verstehen, researchers try to put themselves in the position of others to discover meanings around actions
- recognised people have the choice and could act and change structures
- Giddens
- duality of structure
- people are shaped by society and social institutions
- but these only exist as long as people take action to support them and can take action to change them
- reflexivity, people are constantly reflecting on things they do
- duality of structure
- Weber
- Social Action
- Mead
- symbolic interactions
- actions based on meanings we give to situations conveyed through symbols
- reality is subjective reality
- we define and attach meaning to things to interpret the world
- symbolic interactions
- Blumer
- we act in terms of symbols, according to what meanings arise from interactions
- people try to put themselves in others position to develop a concept of themselves by seeing how others view them
- Cooley
- the looking glass self
- image of ourselves is reflected in view of others, how they react
- self concept and social role are socially constructed and subject to constant change
- the looking glass self
- Mead
- Goffman
- dramaturgical analogy, society like a stage, we construct ourselves
- impression management convince others of the identities we wish to assert
- dramaturgical analogy, society like a stage, we construct ourselves
- Garfinkel
- ethnomethodology study of methods used by us to construct order in everyday social world
- social order is an illusion, we create it in our minds to impose sense of order using common sense
- ethnomethodology study of methods used by us to construct order in everyday social world
- Becker
- labelling theory
- how individuals label or define individuals or situations affects how those who are labelled behave
- labelling theory
- Shultz
- Phenomenology
- humans construct their world through categories and concepts/ phenomenons
- cultures often share these concepts, culture and society are socially constructed
- society is non-existent, it's a concept
- cultures often share these concepts, culture and society are socially constructed
- humans construct their world through categories and concepts/ phenomenons
- Phenomenology
- Structuration
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