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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
- 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 sacred society and the sacred self ## The interaction of religious ideas and economic practices raise c... 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
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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
- 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
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- 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? ====
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- nection to feminist social science, particularly “action research.” * “Action research,” as described by feminist social researcher Shulamith Reinharz, involves... he builder and the act of building; when the interaction ceases and the activity of building ends, it reve... Value In A Provincial Art World.” //Symbolic Interaction// 1 (1): 32–43. https://doi.org/10.1525/si.1977.1
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- 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
- 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 @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
- breaching_experiment
- ate his approach to studying everyday social interaction (Weber 2011). Breaching experiments also resemble... on deliberately violates the sacred zones of interaction between people, and exposes the presence of the u... you go "off script" then you are bound to get a reaction! Here's a YouTube video from a sociology student'... 2009 [1971]. Relations in Public. New York: Transaction Publishers. Rawls, Anne. 2002. Editor's Introduc
- description_of_a_speech_event @3621:2024
- e engage in speech acts, or use speech to take an action. A speech event will be typically be found in a s... lay them in slow motion. Alice and Bahadur’s interaction might take only five seconds. We can understand i... hink of another, similar kind of patterned social action involving language. (Also, you may have already r... y Press. Hymes, Dell. 1972. “Models of the interaction of language and social life.” In //Directions in
- 3 @2700:2021
- egories are not so much constraints on individual action but necessary conditions for action. This cultural schema of classification makes it possible for people ... in pristine isolation. People’s contact and interaction across boundaries drive historical change. * Th... e Study of Kin Networks, Land Tenure, and Oil Extraction in Kutubu, Papua New Guinea.” //American Anthropo