social action

is an action by an individuals that is generally seen as meaningful and that takes the actions and responses of others into account.

Action by individuals that is generally seen as meaningful and that takes the actions and responses of others into account. (net)

is a methodology that involves constantly giving oneself accounts of what is going on, such that accounts and reality are mutually constitutive of one another.

For ethnomethodologist (Garfinkel 1967, Cicourel 1974), reflexivity, along with ''indexicality,' is a key constituent property of social action, a ''problematic phenomenon'' woven into the fabric of the organized activities of everyday life. By that they mean that social action has to be accountable, as people universally and necessarily deploy ''ethno-methods'' to give sense to the practices of the daily round, and that accounts and reality are therefore mutually constitutive of one another.' (An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology By Pierre Bourdieu, Loïc J. D. Wacquant)

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social action