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The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action
American Sociological Review · 1936 · Vol. 1(6) · pp. 894–894
Abstract
Methodological difficulties in researching unanticipated consequences of purposive action are exposed, while focusing on deviations from rationality of social action.
Weber, Simmel, Sociological TheoryPolitical Philosophy and EthicsEconomic Theory and InstitutionsAction (physics)PsychologyNonprobability samplingSocial psychologySociologyDemography
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