Social Choice Phenomenology — A Critique of Sartre (Part 12)

In this article, we discuss the classification of social choice. One method of classification divides social choice into two kinds: object-choice and non-object-choice. Object-choice is a very common form of social choice, one that frequently occurs in our daily lives, and we will discuss it in greater detail later. Another method classifies social choice into four ideal types: purposive-rational choice, value-rational choice, emotional choice, and habitual choice. We can see that these four kinds of choice correspond one by one to the four ideal types of action in Weber’s theory. In later discussions, we will also encounter other forms of classification for social choice.