Max Weber's Theory Of Social Action

In this case, power has been given to the police to arrest people and investigate into their cases hence Weber called this process a social action. For Max Weber, social action has been a way to bring people together. “Weber claims that subjective attitude constitutes social action only so far as they oriented to the behavior of others. For example, religious behavior is not social if it is simply a matter of contemplation or solitary prayer. Weber, M. (1978). Economy and society. Berkeley: Univ. of California Pr. He claimed that people can be in the closet to perform their religious act which will not hinder anyone and at the same time can be in a public to perform the same act which will hinder people. He was trying to explain how certain actions and conditions

W. (1959). From Max Weber: Essays in sociology. New York: Oxford University Press. He made an example trying to use the timing of one’s needs when an order is being made at an appropriate time and an example is no one can buy winter coats when the season is vice versa, In this case, every action come with a consequence. He was able to give different types of situations like subjective attitude, action condition by the crowd, instrumentally rational,(zweckrational), value-rational (wertrational), affectional, traditional. Max Weber in one of his theories explains how power has been given to certain class who control the