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Unit-20: Theory of Social Action and Types of Social Action

20.3 characteristics of social action notes

Max Weber tells those specialties of social action which can briefly divided in following parts:
1. Only action cannot say sociological action. According to Weber an activity can only be called
as social activity in which the action is affected by others people of society. That affect can
be three types-
a. Social action are affected by the action of past. In other words the seed of today’s action
is hidden in past.
b. Social action could also being the result of today’s behaviour.
c. Social action has future based result so people perform any action today their affect
can find in the future life.
2. As written above that the action of single person cannot say sociological action. The only
activity can be called social activities, which are affected from others. So in brief, other
person is necessary for sociological action. In the reference of other people, social action is
transacting.
3. The third specialty of social action is that it is perform affected with others. When person
performs action affected the behaviours of other and become aatmabhiprayak form them.
4. Sociological activities are inter-related. Weber says social action only those action in which
actions are affecting to other person.
In modern complex society to assume, the main base of social action tries to understand the incident
and sociological life. Therefore, in modern century sociological actions are trying to understand
addition with sociology.
Other than Max Weber, there are more scholars to represent idea related to sociological action. The
idea of Plato is that the action, which performs on person, is the result of that society in which person
self-live. Thereby society will generate those type situation person will perform those type action.
Society gives the knowledge of editing of sociological action. Plato show the idea that there are any
changes in sociological situation then the activity of human automatically changes.
Hedonistic Psychology provides important support in reference to the explanation of sociological
action. According to the scholar of Hedonistic viewpoint the action of human operated in two type
element happiness and sorrow. Person are editing such action by these action he feels more pleasure.
Therefore, happiness is the main base of sociological actions.

Task What are the qualities of social action? Describe briefly.

20.4 types of social action

Social action is more important in sociological viewpoint of Weber. Social action is the subject matter
of sociology. Max Weber describes the level of sociological action. These different level and type
describe the sociological behaviour of human of sociological action. Max Weber divided in following
four parts the main type of sociological action:
1. traditional type: These actions are performing by social heritage. Weber says that sociological
actions of human are related to tradition and custom in society. Human edits these things because it
is continuing from classic and the part of social heritage of human. Every society has some tradition

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