PSYchology

Social action is an action of a person (regardless of whether it is external or internal, comes down to non-intervention or patient acceptance), which, according to the meaning assumed by the actor or actors, correlates with the action of other people or is oriented on him.

Social action is action in the human, and not only in the objective world. An action based on relationships between people, or aimed at influencing people and their relationships. Physical action manipulates only objects, social action refers to people.

Actually nailing the boards and making a shelf is a physical action. Making a shelf for your wife is a social action.

M. Weber indicates four types of social action: goal-oriented, value-rational, affective and traditional. Social action, like any action, can be defined:

  1. purposefully rational, i.e. through the expectation of a certain behavior of objects of the external world and other people, and when using this expectation as a “condition” or as a “means” for rationally directed and regulated goals (the criterion of rationality is success). It seems that the translated word Purpose-rationality is the same as expediency in Russian.
  2. value-rationally, i.e. through a conscious belief in the ethical, aesthetic, religious or otherwise understood unconditional own value (self-worth) of a certain behavior, taken simply as such and regardless of success;
  3. affectively, especially emotionally — through actual affects and feelings. Impulsive actions, actions dictated by feeling.
  4. traditionally, i.e. through habit. Look…

Choice of social action: right and expediency

Not everything in life is determined by law, we must not forget about expediency.

Suppose a young father did not take care of a small child, but suddenly became interested and wants to be listened to. He may not have earned the right to this (although — if he earned money so that the mother could take care of the child, this must also be taken into account), but if you start listening to his opinion about the development and upbringing of the child, he will be interested in the child and do more. This is expedient.

Literature

  • Weber M. Basic sociological concepts // Weber M. Selected works. — M.: Progress, 1990.
  • Kravchenko E.I. Theory of social action: from Max Weber to phenomenologists // Sociological journal. 2001. No. 3.
  • Parsons T. On the structure of social action. — M .: Academic project, 2000.
  • social interaction

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