It's time to make my move.
I decided to leave my old blog for fear of having all my entries unexpectedly deleted one day. Especially when I just found out that yet another of my fellow-ODers got all her entries erased by some unknown hacker. So yes, this is the result of the great migration into the borderless beyonds of the virtual universe.
Supposed to be doing my readings (which I was) before the Great Migration started happening and completely distracted me. As a matter of proof...
Weber distinguishes four orientations of social action, none of which is ever likely to be found existing in isolation:
traditional - This is action which comes from habit; it is clearly on the edge of "meaningully oriented action" and can have different degrees of self-consciousness. Much of what we do in everyday life is action of this character.
affectual - Action here is determined by the actor's emotion, feeling, affect; thus, striking in anger can be seen as being on the borderline of meaningfully oriented action.
value-rational (wertrational) - Here action is consciously determined by a belief in a particular value for its own sake. It is distinguished from the previous mode "by its clearly self-conscious formulation of the ultimate values governing the action and the consistently planned orientation of its detailed course to these values" (p.25). It is similar to affectual action in that in both case the object of the action is, so to speak, not outside of the action itself (one does it for its own sake, without regard for consequences).
instrumentally rational (zweckrational) - With action in this sense, the means, ends, and consequences are all taken into account and weighed.
Taken from Harmon, Michael M. and Mayer, Richard T. Organization Theory for Public Administration (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1986)
I am zweckrational!
Ok. Back to reading.
Supposed to be doing my readings (which I was) before the Great Migration started happening and completely distracted me. As a matter of proof...
Weber distinguishes four orientations of social action, none of which is ever likely to be found existing in isolation:
traditional - This is action which comes from habit; it is clearly on the edge of "meaningully oriented action" and can have different degrees of self-consciousness. Much of what we do in everyday life is action of this character.
affectual - Action here is determined by the actor's emotion, feeling, affect; thus, striking in anger can be seen as being on the borderline of meaningfully oriented action.
value-rational (wertrational) - Here action is consciously determined by a belief in a particular value for its own sake. It is distinguished from the previous mode "by its clearly self-conscious formulation of the ultimate values governing the action and the consistently planned orientation of its detailed course to these values" (p.25). It is similar to affectual action in that in both case the object of the action is, so to speak, not outside of the action itself (one does it for its own sake, without regard for consequences).
instrumentally rational (zweckrational) - With action in this sense, the means, ends, and consequences are all taken into account and weighed.
Taken from Harmon, Michael M. and Mayer, Richard T. Organization Theory for Public Administration (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1986)
I am zweckrational!
Ok. Back to reading.
Labels: An old life.
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