Social Action Theory Flashcards
What are social action theories
Theories that focus on the meanings that individuals assign to actions.
Assumes that individuals have free will to act and will have different views.
What is micro-sociology
Seeing that society is constructed by the acts of individuals
Rather than top-down, structural approach
What is affective action
Based upon emotional factors, state of mind
What is traditional action
Based on custom and habit
When is phenomenology
We exist in a shared society that is based upon typifications.
Develop common-sense in order to communicate with others and exist within a shared society.
We have socially constructed meanings
What is ethnomethodology
Study of peoples actions
What do functionalists think about the functions of deviance
Crime is a normal part of a healthy society and performs
