Weber a Schütz o lidském jednání

Petr Špecián

E-LOGOS, 2011, vol. 2011, issue 1, 18 pages

Abstract: The article approaches the methodological component of the theory of human action which was developed in the frame of Weber's sociology of Verstehen and further transformed in the phenomenological sociology of Alfred Schütz. The central problem of the analysis is how both authors try to solve the problem of interpretation of action from the point of view of the (scientific) observer and the agent himself. Although his effort to stay in touch with the psychological reality of action is obvious, it seems that Weber always readily takes the position of scientific observer. Schütz tries to develop a sounder foundation of the Weberian approach and shows how the point of view of a disinterested observer emerges from the paramount (naďve) reality of the Lebenswelt. Both authors discuss the question of rationality in action and conclude that the rationality (defined through logical consistency and empirical efficiency of action) is not a feature of "real-life" action as much as a norm for scientific description and scientific process itself. The present argument is developed on a background of the contemplation of the notion of rationality in contemporary economic theory and of the role of introspection.

Keywords: Max Weber; Alfred Schütz; human action; rationality of action; methodology of science; lidské jednání; racionalita jednání; metodologie vědy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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