Chapter Outline

I. Social Action

1. Behavior and Action
   1. Behavior
   2. Action
   3. Behaviorism
2. Biographical Vignette: Max Weber
3. Types of Action
   1. Affectual action
   2. Traditional action
   3. Value-rational action
   4. Means-end rational action
4. Key Concept: Verstehen

II. Association

1. Forms and Types
   1. Forms
   2. Types
2. Consciousness
   1. Reify
3. Biographical Vignette: Georg Simmel
4. Group Size
   1. Triad
   2. Dyad
5. Key Concept: Secrecy
   1. Secrecy
   2. Lie
6. Distance and the Stranger
   1. Stranger
7. Distance and Value

III. Social Behaviorism

1. The Act
   1. Act
   2. Impulse
   3. Perception
   4. Manipulation
   5. Consummation
2. Gestures
   1. Conversation of Gestures
   2. Significant Gestures
3. Significant Symbols and Language
   1. Significant Symbols
   2. Mind
4. The Self
   1. Self
   2. Reflexivity
   3. Play Stage
   4. Game Stage
   5. Generalized Other
5. Biographical Vignette: George Herbert Mead
6. I and Me
   1. I
   2. Me
7. Symbolic Interaction
   1. Symbolic Interaction
   2. Symbolic Interactionism

IV. Symbolic Interactionism

1. Definition of the Situation
   1. Definition of the Situation
2. The Contributions of Charles Horton Colley and Robert E. Park
   1. Looking-Glass Self
   2. Primary Group
   3. Sympathetic Introspection
   4. Fieldwork
   5. Observation
3. Biographical Vignette: Robert E. Park

V. Action Theory

1. Unit Act
   1. Unit Act
2. Pattern Variables
   1. Pattern Variables
      1. Affectivity-Affective Neutrality
      2. Specificity-Diffuseness
      3. Universalism-Particularism
      4. Ascription-Achievement
      5. Self-Collectivity

VI. The Lifeworld

1. Intersubjectivity
   1. Intersubjectivity
2. Characteristics of the Lifeworld
   1. Lifeworld
   2. Natural Attitude
      1. Wide-Awakeness
      2. Suspension of Doubt
      3. Work
      4. Experience of the Total Self
      5. Intersubjectivity
      6. Intersection of Personal Time and Social Time
3. C. Typifications and Recipes
   1. Typifications
   2. Recipes
4. Realms of the Social World
   1. We-Relations
   2. They-Relations
5. Biographical Vignette: Alfred Schutz
6. Phenomenology, Meaning, and Motives
   1. Phenomenology
   2. Meaning
   3. Motives
   4. In-Order-To Motives
   5. Because Motives

VII. Summary

VIII. Suggested Readings