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Psychology Terms - Action
In social psychology and the broader social sciences, any behavior marked by intentionality and thus subjectively comprehensible, as delineated by the German economist and sociologist Max Weber (1864–1920) in the initial chapter of his posthumously published work, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Economy and Society), released in 1922. For instance, involuntarily burping during a dinner party constitutes behavior, whereas subsequently apologizing represents an action. Refer to Verstehen as well. The act of doing an action or a specific occurrence of an action executed. [Derived from the Latin term actio, meaning action, which originates from agere, signifying to do or to act, combined with the suffix -ion that denotes a process.
In social psychology and the broader social sciences, any behavior marked by intentionality and thus subjectively comprehensible, as delineated by the German economist and sociologist Max Weber (1864–1920) in the initial chapter of his posthumously published work, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Economy and Society), released in 1922. For instance, involuntarily burping during a dinner party constitutes behavior, whereas subsequently apologizing represents an action. Refer to Verstehen as well. The act of doing an action or a specific occurrence of an action executed. [Derived from the Latin term actio, meaning action, which originates from agere, signifying to do or to act, combined with the suffix -ion that denotes a process.
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