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Sociological Thought

notes and customs. The control of every society is so hard so we follow the action if we do not want.
Example – The tradition of cremation of Hindu are full of different ritualistic. Person is editing these
ritualistic if they do not want.
2. affective type or emotional type: Aristotle says that human is a sociological creature, it is correct,
but as well as human is also a feeling based creature. Human does not do work always with logic
and discretion. He is continue dip in emotion and operated from different type of emotion. He has
the feeling of work, anger, fascination, fear, jealousy. When social action performs affected with these
emotions of human then it is known as the emotional type of sociological action. These action are
not understand by tradition and values or logic and rational, but these actions are understand by
emotion. A cruel person is also emotional to sew the hungry boy and turn their action in to kindness.
It is emotion that many people is weeping to see the one weeping person.
3. evaluation type: The third type of social action of Max Weber is evaluation. These types of
sociological actions are related to values. Every society has some certain value and criteria. On the
bases of these value and criteria, understand the group. Every society secures their values and criteria.
These evaluation actions are come from ancient and continuing in future. These action have own
values in society which is not understand by logic and rational. The value of married women is to fill
the vermillion. The sociological value is to touch the foot of elders by which person are directed.
4. rationalistic type: The fourth and last type of social action of Max Weber is rationalistic. When any
work are performing with planning from rational and logic and involved in this means and end than
these action are known as rationalistic sociological action. Rationalistic actions are more important
in comparison to other action. Those actions of human are calls rationalistic actions, which operated
on the bases of means and end. When we performed any work then clearly describe the source for
find the aim of that work. There is only one aim to editing the arrangement of sociological actions.
By this human fulfilling their need. These types of sociological actions are full of logic and scientific.
Human uses the suitable source before performing any work, and then he achieves their goal then
these actions are called rationalistic. Example- addition of 2 and2 is 4. This is rational.

self assessment

Fill in the blanks—
1. Social action is……………… important in sociological viewpoint of Weber.
2. Every society has some……………………..
3. Human does not do ………………always with logic and discretion.

20.5 method of understanding social action

Ravindra Nath Thakur has said that human is objectivist creature. The same idea is Max Weber. Weber
accepts that the human perform those action, there have any object behind this. The nature of social action
of human is that type there is no need to understand because it is totally clear. Opposite it there is some
action that the external behaviour is not clear of that. Because the behaviour of people or personality is
very little, intensive and complex. The reason is that many sociological actions are dependent. There are
very hard work to find out purpose and the aim of personality in these actions.

Did You Know? Whenever we are not understood the purpose and mean of human actions.
It is very hard to understand the sociological situation.

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