SOCB43H3 Lecture Notes - Ideal Type, Social Actions, Rationality
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What is sociology? understand the logic society, start with simplest thing i. e. human being doing things Why they are doing this, what are their motivations, values interests goals. What matters to them hen they act: to achieve power, save their souls. Social action it becomes when they are doing it with other people. Why are people in church on sunday, what do they get out of it, why is it important. (weber"s thinking). On work> what does their mean to them, why is it important to them. Sometimes, people just do things without reason or motivation, which is not a topic of sociology though according to weber. Theory of action: theory that tells us the main types of actions, motivations that move people to do things. Seeing one person punch another, u ask an explanation of why he did it and u want it to make sense.