id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5765 Social actions - Wikipedia .html text/html 2378 213 56 According to Max Weber, "an Action is 'social' if the acting individual takes account of the behavior of others and is thereby oriented in its course". The basic concept was primarily developed in the non-positivist theory of Max Weber to observe how human behaviors relate to cause and effect in the social realm. According to Weber, heterogeneous actors and groups that are competing, find it hard to settle on a certain medium and understand the common social action; Social action models help explain Social Outcomes because of basic sociological ideas such as the Looking Glass Self. Action theory (sociology) Parsons, Talcott (1968), The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers, New York: Free Press ^ Weber, Max The Nature of Social Action in Runciman, W.G. ^ Weber, Max The Nature of Social Action in Runciman, W.G. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5765.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5765.txt