Goals and Behaviour

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5844934
AutoresMilan Stuchlik (autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen2014
Número2
Páginas9-42
Fecha de publicación2014-12-10
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHISTORICKÁ SOCIOLOGIE (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1804-0616 • E-ISSN: 2336-3525
EditorialCharles University in Prague, Karolinum Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14712/23363525.2014.1
OpenAlexW3122143129
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas19

In the first part of this paper I intend to argue that anthropologists have a predominantly causal conception of explanation and that the only feasible way to avoid this is to apply consistently the assumption of goal-orientation of behaviour, that is to hold what could broadly be called a teleological conception of explanation - a view that developments are due to the purpose or design that is served by them. Further on I will try to show that groups and norms do not exist and act independently of people. They have no existence as "things" apart from forming a part of the relevant stock of knowledge of the members of society. They can be brought to bear on actions only by people invoking them. Thus we have to make a sharp distinction between the conceptual or notional level of phenomena, and the transactional or processual level, sometimes known as cultural and social respectively

Archetype · Economics · Epistemology · Notional amount · Positive economics · Sociology · Teleology · Transactional analysis · Transactional leadership · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · Hume's philosophy and hair distribution · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology