Dawn Love
Soc. 385
Professor Zopf
Blog– 3
The
Nature of Social Action
Weber breaks down the Nature of Social Action into three main categories. First, the action in its self must have some sort of subjective meaning. Secondly, at its basics, must have directionality with another person, and lastly, must contain mutually adjusting behavior (such as everyday conversation, and how we react in response to one another’s intended meaning and their reactions). Here I will discuss Weber’s characterizations of several theories, focus on their meaning, and apply it to everyday life.
Social action must have some kind of meaning in the way people in-gage one another, and what the socially acceptable responses are. These responses are also subjective in meaning depending on who you are, and what your particular beliefs are. As a society we try to decipher whether our actions are rational or irrational, which leads to the cause and effect of a given situation. It may be contingent on our origin, social class, or perhaps our education level, as well as the many other differences amongst our very diverse society. What may be socially acceptable for one, may not be for others. Whether it include mannerisms, the way we interpret the meaning of something as simple as hand gestures, body language, or perhaps on a larger scale, religion. For example, let us use the example of TSA at our nation’s airports. Is it irrational to ask a woman of Muslim decent to removeher head scarf, as they believe God requires them to do so? This is subjective in her mind, because this is what she believes to be true and right. Say she sees the man next to her in a red baseball cap who was not asked to remove his hat at all. Is it irrational for the Muslim woman to react by yelling or standing her ground and refusing to comply? Is she reacting in a rational orirrational manner ? She believes devoutly in her religious beliefs, and has every right to feel those rights not be violated. The effect, if the head scarf is not removed she may encounter some sort of penalty such as not be allowed to board her flight, being hassled by TSA agents which we are all very well aware does happen, or will she actually be forced to remove the scarf? This can and most likely will create an empathetic certainty, she will relive this in her mind over and over again, because not only does she feel her religious rights were violated, but she was treated unfairly as opposed to the man in the red baseball hat. Moreover, she may suffer psychological implications because of this situation as well.
Do her emotions qualify as rational intelligibility? Dose Allah exist? Is
there any evidence that Allah really dose exist, or to give another example does Godexist for Catholics? One thing is certain, there will never be an exact answer to this question for anyone, not unless we actually experience death withoutreturn. The bottom line is all of us need to put forth effort in mutually adjusting our behavior toward one-another. We are now a more diverse society than ever before. The need for our vastly increasing multi-cultural society to learn how to except one-another is of the utmost importance, for the sake of peace if anything else. It’s important not only for our own personal beliefs,but to understand the beliefs of others as-well, and try to react in a mutually adjusting manner.
Soc. 385
Professor Zopf
Blog– 3
The
Nature of Social Action
Weber breaks down the Nature of Social Action into three main categories. First, the action in its self must have some sort of subjective meaning. Secondly, at its basics, must have directionality with another person, and lastly, must contain mutually adjusting behavior (such as everyday conversation, and how we react in response to one another’s intended meaning and their reactions). Here I will discuss Weber’s characterizations of several theories, focus on their meaning, and apply it to everyday life.
Social action must have some kind of meaning in the way people in-gage one another, and what the socially acceptable responses are. These responses are also subjective in meaning depending on who you are, and what your particular beliefs are. As a society we try to decipher whether our actions are rational or irrational, which leads to the cause and effect of a given situation. It may be contingent on our origin, social class, or perhaps our education level, as well as the many other differences amongst our very diverse society. What may be socially acceptable for one, may not be for others. Whether it include mannerisms, the way we interpret the meaning of something as simple as hand gestures, body language, or perhaps on a larger scale, religion. For example, let us use the example of TSA at our nation’s airports. Is it irrational to ask a woman of Muslim decent to removeher head scarf, as they believe God requires them to do so? This is subjective in her mind, because this is what she believes to be true and right. Say she sees the man next to her in a red baseball cap who was not asked to remove his hat at all. Is it irrational for the Muslim woman to react by yelling or standing her ground and refusing to comply? Is she reacting in a rational orirrational manner ? She believes devoutly in her religious beliefs, and has every right to feel those rights not be violated. The effect, if the head scarf is not removed she may encounter some sort of penalty such as not be allowed to board her flight, being hassled by TSA agents which we are all very well aware does happen, or will she actually be forced to remove the scarf? This can and most likely will create an empathetic certainty, she will relive this in her mind over and over again, because not only does she feel her religious rights were violated, but she was treated unfairly as opposed to the man in the red baseball hat. Moreover, she may suffer psychological implications because of this situation as well.
Do her emotions qualify as rational intelligibility? Dose Allah exist? Is
there any evidence that Allah really dose exist, or to give another example does Godexist for Catholics? One thing is certain, there will never be an exact answer to this question for anyone, not unless we actually experience death withoutreturn. The bottom line is all of us need to put forth effort in mutually adjusting our behavior toward one-another. We are now a more diverse society than ever before. The need for our vastly increasing multi-cultural society to learn how to except one-another is of the utmost importance, for the sake of peace if anything else. It’s important not only for our own personal beliefs,but to understand the beliefs of others as-well, and try to react in a mutually adjusting manner.