Theories of Social Behavior

Author:Iago Kachkachishvili

Page number, Format:228, A5

© Open Society -Georgia Foundation, 2001

Short Description:The book was prepared as an auxiliary textbook for master students in social sciences. The following questions are discussed: approval of “social behavior” theory; theory of “Social Behavior” by Marx Weber; theory of “Social Behavior” by Talkot Parsons; the theory of rational choice, as mutilate rational paradigm of rational behavior; symbolic internationalism (social behavior as “role learning” process”); social behavior in structuring theory by Anthony Gidens and social behavior from anti-reduction theory point of view.