Action is the human behavior that attaches subjective meaning.
Adequacy of causal relationship is the probability that the action will always actually occur in the same relationship.
Adequacy of meaning is the typical inter-relationships between the meaning and the action.
Administrative order is a band order which governs the band action by itself.
Affectual action is the action that is conditioned by affection and states of emotion.
Artel is Russian cooperation before the Soviet Union which pooled all land in common and distributed worker's income according to work performed.
Association is a band the established order of which is based on a voluntary agreement of the members.
Autonomous band is the band which order is installed by its own members on their own authority.
Autonomous leadership means that the leader is established by the authority of the autonomous band.
Band action is the action directed to enforce its order.
Band is a closed relationship which order is maintained by a leader or staff (12:0).
Benedek, Ludwig August, Ritter von --(1804-1881) Austrian field marshal whose defeat at the Battle of Sadowa on July 3, 1866, was decisive in the emergence of Prussia as the predominant German power and the creation of a Prussian-dominated German Empire.
Charismatic validity is the validity based on the belief in prophetic revelation of new order.
Church is hierocratic institution that monopolizes the legitimate use of hierocratic coercion.
Clarity is the striving goal of every interpretation of meaning.
Closed relationship is a social relationship that is closed or restricted for its participation such as family and citizenship.
Communal relationship is a social relationship that orients to affectual or traditional sentiment of belonging together such as family and friend
Community is the continuing communal relationship.
Competition is a conflict relationship that peacefully attempts to attain controlling power over opportunities which are also desired by others.
Conflict relationship is a social relationship that is oriented to carry out one's own will against the resistance of the other party.
Constitution is the probability of obedience to the imposing authority.
Convention is a legitimate order which is guaranteed by the reaction of disapproval.
Correct causal interpretation is the correct apprehension of the action and the motives through meaningful comprehension of its causal relationship and the demonstration of its existence.
Custom is actual practice rests on long familiarity.
Direct understanding is attained by direct observation.
Discipline is the probability that a command will receive prompt and automatic obedience.
Empathic interpretation is imaginary experience of emotional-context of action.
End-rational action is the action that is oriented to the expectation of desired result.
Enterprise is continuous purposive activity
Explanatory understanding is attained by the explanation of the meaning of action. Explanation requires a grasp of the meaning-context of an understandable action.
Fashion is a usage that is based on the newness of behavior
Fontenoy, Battle of (May 11, 1745), confrontation that led to the French conquest of Flanders during the War of the Austrian Succession. It was the most famous victory of the French marshal Maurice, Count de Saxe.
Gresham's law is the theory holding that if two kinds of money in circulation have the same denominational value but different intrinsic values, the money with higher intrinsic value will be hoarded and eventually driven out of circulation by the money with lesser intrinsic value. After Sir Thomas Gresham (1519-1579) English financier.
Heteronomous band is the band which order is imposed from outside.
Heteronomous leadership means that the leader is installed by the authority of outsiders.
Hierocratic band is a rulership band which order is guaranteed by psychic coercion through the distribution or denial of religious goods
Ideal type of social action is a rationally and systematically constructed pure type of action, which can rarely taken place in reality. Construction of an ideal type serves for clarity of interpretation.
Imaginary experience is imaginary participation to the emotional condition under which social action took place.
Imitation is a reactive behavior that has no meaningful orientation.
Imposition of an order is that it does not originate from a voluntary agreement.
Institution is a band the established order of which is imposed on every individual according to certain specific criteria within a given specific sphere of activity.
Interest-situation of regularity is the probability that it is conditioned by the end-rational expectation.
Interpretation is the explanation of meaning. Interpretation is either rational or empathic character.
Law is a legitimate order which is guaranteed by physical or psychic coercion.
Legal-rational validity is the validity based on the belief in the legality of order.
Legitimacy is the prestige of duty or model.
Legitimate order is the order that lends the prestige of duty or model.
Marathon -- A village and plain of ancient Greece northeast of Athens. It was the site of a major victory over the Persians in 490 B.C.
Market is a social relationship that involves competition and rational relationship.
Mass-conditioned action is the action that is influenced by the fact that the one is a member of a mass confined within a limited space.
Maxim is the inner attitude toward the meaning-content of a continuing social relationship.
Meaning of social action is subjective since it exists as individual's. Sociology seeks neither correct nor true meaning of social action, which is the realm of normative disciplines and not the realm of empirical science.
Member is a participant to a closed relationship, which guarantees for monopolized opportunity of benefits and interest to its participants.
Moltke, Helmuth von -- (1800-1891) chief of the Prussian and German General Staff (1858-88) and the architect of the victories over Denmark (1864), Austria (1866), and France (1871).
Motive is the meaning-context of sequence course of action.
Objectivity of an interpretation of meaning must be based on the outcome of action. For our understanding, the combination of adequate interpretation of motivation and its empirical verification is decisive. Without adequate interpretation, our understanding of action left unsatisfied. But without empirical demonstration, a theoretical interpretation would be empty.
Open relationship is a social relationship that is open to anyone who wishes to participate such as market.
Order is the meaning-content of a continuing social relationship which consist of determinate maxim.
Plataea -- An ancient city of central Greece southwest of Thebes. It was the site of a major Greek victory over the Persians in 479 B.C.
Political band is a rulership band which order is guaranteed by physical force.
Power is the probability that one carries out his own will despite resistance
Prestige is social honor, or honor that receives from others.
Property is guaranteed opportunity for appropriation.
Rational interpretation is intellectually consistent grasp of the meaning-context of action, which can be attained by thinking experiment.
Rational relationship is a social relationship that orients to rational comparison and obligation of interest, such as exchange and agreement.
Regularity of social action is frequent repetition or wide-spread practice of the same type of action, which constitutes the same intended meaning. There is three kinds of the regularity: Usage, Custom, and Interest-situation.
Regulative order is a band order which governs other than the band action.
Relationship exists only as a particular meaning-content to which human action is oriented.
Representative relationship is the responsibility of social action which is charged for representative member.
Right is the probability of monopolized opportunity that is appropriated by a member.
Rulership band is the band which rulership is legitimated and submitted by the members.
Rulership is the probability that a command will be obeyed by give persons.
Salamis -- An island of Greece in the Saronic Gulf east of Athens. In an important naval battle off the island's northeast coast the Greeks, led by Themistocles, defeated the Persian fleet in 480 B.C.
Selection is not a social relationship, but a conflict of life opportunity for advantages and survival without a meaningful mutual orientation among individuals.
Social Action is the action including inaction that is oriented to the behavior of others. Social action is distinguished from other human behavior including stimuli, reaction, imitation, and mass-conditioned action.
Social Relationship is the meaning-content of social action among mutually related individuals such as friendship, erotic relationship, and exchange.
Social means taking consideration of other's behavior.
Society is the continuing rational relationship.
Sociological rule is the regularity of the actual process which constitutes understandable meaning of social action.
Sociology is the science that attempts to understand social action and to explain its course and effect.
Solidary relationship is the responsibility of social action which is charged for every member.
State is political institution that monopolizes the legitimate use of physical force in the enforcement of its order.
Sublimation is conscious release of emotional tension of affectually conditioned action.
Territorial band is a band which order has the validity to all people of a given territory.
Thinking experiment is the thought construction that takes away a certain element of motivation and articulates to the consistent attribution of causal relationship.
Traditional validity is the validity based on the belief in the sanctity of tradition.
Traditional action is the action that is conditioned by accustomed habituation.
Understanding of the meaning of action is attained only by the relation to its means and end. It may be either direct or explanatory character.
Usage is the probability that the existence of regularity is conditioned entirely by its actual practice
Validity of order is the probability that the orientation to order is actually resulted.
Validity is probability of actual occurrence.
Value-rational validity is the validity based on the belief in the rationality of Natural Law.
Value-rational action is the action that is oriented to the conscious belief in the ultimate value of the action for its own sake.
Violence is a conflict relationship that uses actual physical force to carry out one's own will.