Understanding Sociology of M. Veber in Categories "Behavior" and "Activity"
The conceptual positions of "understanding sociology" are considered in a context of author's representations about behavior and activity. The central abstraction of M. Veber’s sociology is "an aim-rational action " as maximum accessible to understanding. In the article it shows that the ideal form of the aim-rational action is the subject activity (or simply activity). Unlike the last one the social behavior is determined by motivation refracted in statement of the purpose, the adequate means of it can not be available in social sphere. In this connection the interpretation (understanding) of behavior cannot be exhausted by the aim-rational action. The concepts "behavior" and "activity" are submitted by the author as the forms of activity, the rational and non-rational components of human social action are formed in the context
Keywords: «understanding sociology» by M. Veber, target-rational action, subject activity, social behavior, interpretation (understanding) of behavior, notion «behavior», notion «activity»
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Issue: 1, 2008
Rubric: Postnonclassical Methodology of System Studies
Pages: 78 — 88
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