Social Action Theory Flashcards

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What is Instrumentally rational action

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The most efficient way of achieving a goal

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What are the four types of action according to Weber

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Instrumentally rational action
Value rational action
Traditional action
Affectual action

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What is Value rational action

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Involves action towards a goal that the individual regards as desirable for its own sake

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What is Traditional action

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Routine actions

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What is affectual action

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Action that expresses emotion

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What does Shutz say about Webers theory

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Too individualistic and can’t explain the shared nature of meanings

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What did Mead say?

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We interpret the meaning before we act
Unlike animals we do not have pre programmed instincts
Example of shaking fists

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How do we interpret other people meaning according to Mead?

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“Taking the role of the other”

Putting ourselves in their place a seeing as they see us

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What were Blumers three key principles?

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Our actions are based on the meaning we give to situations
Meanings arise from interaction
Meaning we give to situations are the result interpretive procedures

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Who disagree with Blumer?

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Functionalists

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Name the 4 symbolic interactionist

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Mead
Goffman
Cooley
Blumer

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What did Cooley say?

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“The looking glass self”

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What does the looking glass self mean?

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We come to see ourselves as to how people see us. Those who we interact with become a looking glass

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What’s Goffmans main theory called?

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Dramaturgical model

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What is Dramaturgical model?

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We are all actors trying to fulfill certain roles depending on what situation we are in

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What are the two Dramaturgical concepts?

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Presentation of self

Impression management

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What are the three main criticisms of symbolic interactionism?

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Goffmans dramatagural model - people improvise their interactions
Ethnomethodologists argue it fails to explain how actors create meanings
It ignores structural side of sociology