Coleman versus Collins: Dva odlišné přístupy k teorii jednání v americké sociologii

• Authors: Subrt Jiri

Title variants

EN

COLEMAN VERSUS COLLINS: THE TWO DIFFERENT APPROACHES TOWARDS ACTION THEORY IN AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article confronts James Coleman's and Randall Collins's approaches towards action theory: reviews both their similarities (based on the importance of micro-sociological perspective for understanding social macro-level) and differences (their attitude towards the assumed rational nature of human action). Coleman supports the homo oeconomicus thesis and understands actors as beings, which make rational decisions and direct their actions on the basis of costs and gains calculations. Collins, on the other hand, emphasizes the extra-rational factors of emotions and routine. By putting up these approaches against each other two ideal type constructions arise, which are particular intellectual modes yet cannot comprehend social reality in its full complexity.

Keywords

EN

AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY; EXTRA-RATIONAL FACTORS; RATIONAL CHOICE; THEORY OF ACTION

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teorie vědy (Theory of Science)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 16/29
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 61-76
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Subrt Jiri

• Jiri Subrt, Katedra sociologie FF UK, Celetna 20, 116 42 Praha 1, Czech Republic, http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/4199/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA061718