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- stays-dirty-in-our-minds. ## Types of social action ## * Traditional: Like a habit or an unquestioned rule. * Affective: Emotionally motivated action, personally meaningful action. * Value-rational (*Wertrational*): The pursuit of a collective good or ... a very important and very special type of social action. ## Quiz: What types of social action best desc
- 3 @2667
- sacred. Let's call this **ritual**, a pattern of action which is connected to the sacred. Ritual, or sacred action, is a kind of social fact. It is, furthermore, fu... y come together as a "church" to engage in sacred action. Durkheim takes this as a general rule: All socie... nergy of the group as a whole engaged in a sacred action. Durkheim calls this "effervescence" (1915: 226).
- max_weber
- theorists, Weber's theory of society is based on action. This means that a society comes into being throu... ual and collective actions of its members. Social action has meaning and purpose. It accomplishes somethin... ividuals and groups. ## The four types of social action ## In Weber's theory, social actions can be clas... in pursuing them. There are four types of social action: * Traditional: I do it because this is how it h
- 9 @2667
- bout what other people wear. * Dress is a social action - it sends a message, even if that message is not... Weber and hipsters ## * Weber's theory of social action is relevant here: To understand social action, we must look at the meaning the actors puts in their action. * There are many levels of meaning in any one
- 11 @2700:2025
- one into social reality. * **Seeing is social action.** To look at other people is to act on other peo... ater for two people, but maybe that’s what social action is. The agent in society is not an individual, it... es other people see and will do in response to an action. * The true source (locus) of **effective social action** is not the individual person but the relationsh
- religion_and_economy
- e, for Weber, represent different types of social action, distinguishable by the motivations underlying th... offers an alternative way of locating meaning in action. Charisma draws people out of what they know and forces them to evaluate their own reasons for action; in other words, to define their selfhood in indi... ligion and economy, necessarily distinct forms of action, yet nevertheless always constantly interacting.
- 5 @2700:2025
- is a mile long (see “Agency, n.” 2024). ==== II. Action, capacity to act. ==== * **II.4. Ability or ca... act or exert power; active working or operation; action, activity.** * For instance, //I know what we... to achieve what I think is best.// * **II.5.a. Action or intervention producing a particular effect; me... he **intention of the winker** gives the winker’s action (winking) meaning. ==== Back to square one? ====
- 7.1 @1002:2018
- ory of society starts with the concept of "social action". There are four types of social action, each based on a type of meaning they embody. * Traditional: I d... most for the least amount of effort. ## Social action and society ## People are always motivated to ac... to think about themselves and the value of their action in a certain way. ## Examples ## Think about t
- 6 @2700:2025
- ~DECKJS~~ ====== Social subjects beyond norm and action ====== ===== Social subjects beyond norm and action ===== Ryan Schram\\ ANTH 2700: Key debates in anthr... r own in the course of interactions. ===== Every action sends a message. Everyday life is a conversation. ===== Social action is not just meaningful, it’s a message. When we a
- 8 @2700:2022
- rom the ground up, in terms of patterns of social action. Forms of social action can be more or less rational, and can be rational in different ways. Social acti... the way it has always been done * Emotion: This action expresses how I feel personally * Value-rationa... based on his theory of rationalization of social action, it leads to another linear scale of progress, wh
- 8 @6916:2024
- rom the ground up, in terms of patterns of social action. Forms of social action can be more or less rational, and can be rational in different ways. Social acti... the way it has always been done * Emotion: This action expresses how I feel personally * Value-rationa... ss population that can be measured. Power acts on action, not on people (Li 2007). There are two crucial
- themes @6916:2018
- he sacred, or morality * Rationality in social action - Types of social action - The meaning of social action as a perspective * Value, Marx and the commodity - Primitive acc... t another sense of value. ## Weber ## * Social action can be classified by the type of motivation. * R
- 5.1.1 @1001:2020
- ]] argues that society is a system of patterns of action, each of which has a specific meaning for the peo... ing the consequences of what they do. Patterns of action can be distinguished based on how much and what k... 1993). Either way, this was Weberian charisma in action. Specifically, this is an excellent example of t
- 8.1 @1002:2018
- l is natural, and hence a precondition for social action. It is natural for an actor to have a unique, subjective, private view of their action, and so we must take their perspective as an individual to see what they create through action. What if the individual does not exist except in
- 13 @1001:2021
- ed, political work that advocates for change, or “action research.” ===== Feminist “participatory action research” is ethnography ===== Consider what feminist s... logist Shulamit Reinharz says about participatory action research: > In feminist participatory research,