Weber’s Action Theory
• Max Weber sees sociology as the explanation of social action and understanding actors’
meanings, purposes, values, etc.
• Weber raised four main types of action.
• Traditional or customary: Because our people have always done it like this.
• Affective: Because it is emotionally satisfying.
• Value-oriented: because it is the right thing to do.
• Instrumental: because it is the most effective way to achieve a certain end.
[Review]Basics of Symbolic Interactionism by Blumer
• According to Herbert Blumer (1969a)…
• People act toward things (objects) based on the meaning (and symbols) those things have
for them.
• These meanings are given through social interaction.
• The meanings can be modified through interpretation.
Socialization
Socialization
• A specific form of social interaction is called socialization.
• It is a process by which people learn the things in order to survive in society.