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Sociological Thought Sukanya Das, Lovely Professional University

notes Unit-27: Classification of Logical and Non-Logical Action

contents
Objectives
Introduction

27.1 Subject Matter
27.2 Non-Logical Action
27.3 Summery
27.4 Keywords
27.5 Review Questions

27.6 Further Readings

objectives

After studying this unit, the students will be able to:
y To understand Pareto’s Logical working,
y Interpretation of Pareto’s Non-logical working.

introduction

He believed that there exists timeliness in social system. Its structure is made of human. A lot of
powerful factors work on these human’s activities. In these powerful factors, the attitude i.e., residual
and confounded factors are the main. The one part of the human’s entire attitude is non-logical. This
non-logical behaviour is determined by residual and confounded factors. Sociology does the study of
such non-logical working. The study-method of this sociology is logical. Pareto’s logic is inductive.
He does study which happens in the consequent of the adjustments of objectiveness and subjective
action. He has established more sociological principles on such conceptual plan. The Cyclic Principle
of Elites keeps a remarkable place among these all principles.

27.1 subject matter
Logical action

On defining the sociology Pareto has introduced two ideas Logical-action and Non-logical action.
More ideas are also there with these ideas. Objective action and Subjective action. When human does
logical action he takes his all decisions within these two ideas. One more set of ideas is there: Means
and End. When human acts then he has few ends i.e., aims. To fulfil these aims he starts using few
means. And at the end of this principle of non-logical action principle action of non-logical. Pareto uses
his conception of Residues and Derivations. We’ll analyse the all ideas here. In short, the definition
of sociology given by Pareto and its methods are related with these ideas.

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