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Action Theory
Opposed to Positivism
Proponents of Action Theory include;
Interpretivists
Interactionists
Anti-positivists
Phenomenologists
Action Theorists
Believe that reality is determined
Socially constructed
Self concepts
We build reality
Relativist
People create reality, they are not passive
There is no truth. It is the subject that creates the object
Phenomenology
The Crazy Lecturer
Context
Action
Interpretations
Meaning
Symbolism
Social Construction
Idealism
Refers more to ideas than to the normal usage of the word Ideals.
Does not mean perfect.
Max Weber views the social sciences as being necessarily interwoven with the SOCIAL.
Peoples accounts of situations
People are not passive?
Weber and Symbolic Interactionists believe that you can be bias neutral.
Postmodernists reject this claim
Relativism
There is no truth.
Plato?s analogy of ?The Cave?
It is the subject that determines the object.
Objects are made real by being defined.
Conclusion
The paradigm war between positivism and interpretativism was a myth.
All aspects of quantitative and qualitative data are needed.
Subjectivity and Objectivity are needed.
The relationship between theory and methods must be understood.
The PARADIGM.
Texts to read:
Kuhn, Thomas. 1970, ?The Structure of Scientific Revolutions?, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Kuhn, Thomas. 1972, Scientific Paradigms, in B.Barnes (ed.), Sociology of Science,
Penguin, Harmondsworth.
Popper, Karl. 1963 ?Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge?. Routledge, London.
Popper, Karl. 1972 ?Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach?. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
http://plato.stanfor
d.edu/entries
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