Action theory Flashcards

5328915278	What are Webers 2 levels of society?	Level of cause: Objective/structural Level of meaning: Subjective meaning	0
5328923750	What are Webers 4 types of action?	Instrumentally rational action, value rational action, traditional action, affectual action	1
5328934616	What is the key belief in Calvinism?	Work hard= Get to heaven	2
5328987832	What does Schutz say about Weber?	His view of action is too invilidualisitic	3
5328939366	What do symbolic interactionists believe?	We create society through our actions and meanings we give things	4
5328945514	What does Mead believe?	We give meanings to things significant to us and 'take the role of the other' to understand others meanings	5
5328953519	What are Blumers 3 Key principles?	1. Actions are based on meanings we give 2. Meanings arise from interaction process 3. Meanings are a result of interpretive process	6
5328967580	What are the elements of the labelling theory?	Definition of the situation. looking glass self and career	7
5328977002	What does Goffman believe?	We are all actors performing to construct an image of ourselves that presents us best	8
5328994827	What does symbolic interactionism ignore?	Wider societal structures e.g inequality	9
5329005149	What do phenomenologists believe?	We can never have a definite knowledge of society outside of us	10
5329010944	How does Husserl say we create meanings?	By categorising things	11
5329017788	How are meaning categories organised?	Through typifications, giving things agreed meanings by their context and creating social order	12
5329027931	What does Schutz say helps social order?	Recipe knowledge	13
5329031809	Define natural attitude	Society exists outside of us and is real and objective	14
5329046876	How do Berger and Luckman criticise phenomenology?	Society is not inter objective, once creates it takes on an external life of its own	15
5329058985	What approach do ethnomethodologists take?	Bottom up approach	16
5329061109	Define idexicality	Nothing has fixed meaning	17
5329067502	Define reflexivity	Using commonness knowledge and interaction to create meaning	18
5329076221	How does Craib criticise ethnomethodology?	Says it's findings are trivial	19
5329081660	What is Giddin's key idea?	Duality of structure- structure and action cannot live without one another	20
5329090975	What are the elements of structures?	Rules and Resources	21
5329094458	Define ontological security?	The need to feel the world really is as it appears	22
5329100276	Define reflexively monitoring?	Reflecting on our actions and their effects and adjusting accordingly	23
5329105793	How does Archer criticise Giddins?	He says he underestimates the power of structures to resist change	24