SOCI 2040 Lecture Notes - George Herbert Mead, Hans-Georg Gadamer

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2040
• Professor: Charles Battershill

Document Summary

Part i: max weber and social action: human actions become social when they are oriented to other. Action is social insofar as it takes account of the behaviour of others and is thereby oriented in its course. (in the reading kit, from sociology and. Science in weber, max sociological writings, p. 228: an action is a social action, according to weber, when it has meaning, both to the initiator(s) of the action and to those who receive it. Part ii: the social actor as a meaning maker: social actors is the term we sociologists give to human beings as members of social worlds, what does it mean in sociological terms for human beings to. ; or aggressiveness. (c)these kinds of answers do not take into account the fact that human beings are social beings. Sociologists tend to view greediness, or competitiveness, or self-interestedness as arising from human beings sociability or social inclinations.