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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 ... est deal. Means-ends calculation. For Weber some actions, and some societies, are more rational than othe

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ideas or objects which people believe are sacred. Actions can be sacred too. What seems important to relig... 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

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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

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hough part of you is good, and through your own actions and behavior you can cultivate goodness in you

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1999. “Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: Notes from the South African Postcolony.” Americ

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tive consciousness * Religion as a type of social action * Religious experience and subjectivity * Religio