Social Choice Phenomenology — A Critique of Sartre (Part 10)

In this article, we mainly introduce the sociologist Max Weber’s classification of social action. He divided social action into four types: purposive-rational action, value-rational action, affectual action, and traditional action. These four forms are ideal types, while actual actions in society are mixtures of these ideal types. This classification was developed by Weber on the basis that social action constitutes the foundation of sociology. Since we take social choice, rather than social action, as the foundation of sociology, we will later classify social choice in several different ways as well.