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 | A. Schutz - Philosophy - 1972 - 418 pages
...all human behavior when and insofar as the acting individual attaches a subjective meaning to it ... Action is social insofar as, by virtue of the subjective...the behavior of others and is thereby oriented in it course." See Talcott Parsons, op. cit.. esp. pp. 82ff, 345-47, and 484ff ; Felix Kaufrnann, op.... | |
 | Alfred Schutz - Philosophy - 1967 - 296 pages
...interpretive sociology is to understand and interpret social action. Social action is that action which by virtue of the subjective meaning attached to it by the acting individual (or individuals), takes account of the behavior of others, and is thereby oriented in its course. ... In "action" is... | |
 | Max Weber - Social Science - 1968 - 371 pages
...refraining from such intervention or passively acquiescing in the situation. Action is social in so far as, by virtue of the subjective meaning attached to...individual (or individuals), it takes account of the behaviour of others and is thereby oriented in its course.1 Reprinted by permission of The Macmillan... | |
 | Peter G. Hollowell - Psychology - 1998 - 276 pages
...alienating. Weber's famous definition of social action will help us here. Action is social in so far as, by virtue of the subjective meaning attached to it by the acting individual ... it takes account of the behaviour of others, and is thereby oriented in its course.5 We are brought... | |
 | Louis Schneider, Charles M. Bonjean - Culture - 1973 - 172 pages
..."inside" their subjectivity as it were. Action, he wrote, is social "insofar as its subjective meaning takes account of the behavior of others and is thereby oriented in its course."80 But this is the same Weber who also put what one can only describe as enormous emphasis... | |
 | Laird Addis - Philosophy - 237 pages
...refraining from such intervention or passively acquiescing in the situation. Action is social in so far as, by virtue of the subjective meaning attached to...individual (or individuals), it takes account of the behaviour of others and is thereby oriented in its course. 7 The most important feature of Weber's... | |
 | Reinhard Bendix - Biography & Autobiography - 1977 - 580 pages
...when and insofar as the acting individual attaches a subjective meaning to it. ... On the other hand: Action is social insofar as, by virtue of the subjective...behavior of others and is thereby oriented in its course.5 In this way, Weber emphasized that action in society is individual as well as social. Like... | |
 | David Trevor Evans - Business & Economics - 1993 - 372 pages
...individual attaches subjective meanings, action being social when 'by virtue of the subjective meanings attached to it by the acting individual (or individuals) it takes account of the behaviour of others and is thereby oriented in its course' (p. 1 10). Accordingly the basic unit of... | |
 | Michael Martin, Lee C. McIntyre - History - 1994 - 818 pages
...included all human behavior when and insofar as the acting individual attaches a subjective meaning to it Action is social insofar as, by virtue of the subjective...behavior of others and is thereby oriented in its course" ([17], p. 88). Some of Weber's subsequent examples of a subjective meaning (subjecktiv gemeinter Sinn)... | |
 | R. A. Sydie - Social Science - 1994 - 284 pages
...refraining from such intervention or passively acquiescing in the situation. Action is social in so far as, by virtue of the subjective meaning attached to...individual (or individuals), it takes account of the behaviour of others and is thereby oriented in its course.6 The method to be used by sociology was... | |
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