Social action theory

• What is social action theory?

  -Social action theory is a theory against the view that people’s behaviour is the result of outside forces over which they have little control.

  -Social action theorists believe that individual have control over their own behaviour, however the attitudes and actions of other people can affect how we behave.

  -argues that people are able to work out what is happening in any given situation, because they already bring a set of interpretations to every interaction, and use them to make sense of social behaviour.