Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Social Action
- Key words
- Social actors
- Social roles
- Meaningful behaviour
- Key sociologists
- Max Weber
- All behaviour is linked to a role
- Social actors are conscious and
have free will
- Society is the individual
- Individuals create society
- No such thing as social facts
- Meid
- 'I, self, me'
- Generalised others
- Significant others
- Behaviour is about our
interaction with others
- Methods
- Verstehen
- Qualitative
- Interviews
- Participant Observation
- Depth
- Detail
- unreliable
- Meaning
- Validity
- Opinions
- Thoughts
- Feelings
- What do they study?
- individuals within society
- Want to know why?
- Individuals act in socially meaningful ways
- Interpretivists
- No such thing as a social act
- Individuals cannot be measured
scientifically
- Criticisms
- Subjective
- Takes opinions into account
- Perspectives
- Interactionism
- claims that individuals can exert control over forces in society
- individuals can determine their own identities
- study how people behave in small scale situations
- look at how people interact with eachother
- do not want to generalise their ideas to the whole of society
- Strengths
- There is empirical evidence to
support the approach
- the approach has practical applications
- Weaknesses
- incomplete theory as it doesn't
explain why some people are
labelled as deviant and not others
- it ignores wider features of the
social structure and their influence
on behaviour
- interpretivism
- humanistic approach
- social world differs from natural
- verstehen
- depth
- understanding
- validity
- qualitative
- subjective
- variables can not be controlled
- society and people are
unpredictable
- different people have different
experiences of society
- small scale