Toward a General Theory of Action

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Toward a General Theory of Action
Talcott Parsons
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But in addition to attaining critical vantage points, real progress has been made in defining the nature of the problems, and here and there is a glimmer of positive insight. It may confidently be hoped that intensive and competent work toward pushing forward this frontier of our knowledge should yield results of some value. Here, above all, the resources of modern social science can be mobilized for the task of extending and or- dering our knowledge of human conduct.
FIGURES 1-15 Accompanying
...Part II Fig. 1 COMPONENTS OF THE ACTION FRAME OF REFERENCE THE SUBJECT THE OBJECT 1. An actor-subject: the actor whose orientation of 2. Objects: those objects to which the actor-subject action is being analyzed. (In an interaction situ- is oriented. These are (i) social objects and (ii) ation, this actor is called "ego. ") nonsocial objects.
Theactor-subject is sometimes called simply the i. Social objects are actors (i. E. , action systems) "actor" and is always an "action system. " Thus but here they are objects rather than subjects the actor-subject is either: in a given analysis.


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