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What did you do this morning when you first got up? Turn the alarm off? Groaned at your roommate or your parent? What did you do then? Got out of bed and … brushed your teeth? Got dressed? Ate breakfast? Which of those actions were social and which were personal? What about when you are all alone in your room dancing or playing music? What kind of action is that?
Our textbook gives us a very good definition of social action, and by default personal action. The reason this distinction is important because society is built up from social actions. You might be surprised just how many of your actions are social. Check out what the textbook has to say and then work through the journal exercise. Social actions lead to interaction (the blending together of social actions). And these social interactions provide the basis of social organization. We are surrounded by interactions and social organization. Even so common place an action as standing in line is a complex form of social organization. Your threaded discussion assignment asks you to analyze the achievement of making a line (or what we call a queue). |
