"Instrumental" and "value-rational action" are terms scholars use to identify two kinds of behavior that humans can engage in. Scholars call using means...

assigned to their actions and beliefs. The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory provides three modern definitions of intrinsic and instrumental value: They are "the...

"Instrumental" and "value rationality" are terms scholars use to identify two ways individuals act in order to optimize their behavior. Instrumental rationality...

means'). Value rational or Instrumentally rational social action is divided into two groups: rational consideration and rational orientation. Rational consideration...

personally costly actions. Society portal Affectional action Collective action Collective effervescence Instrumental and value-rational action Interpersonal...

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life and how they determine their relationships. Society portal Affectional action Communicative action Dramaturgical action Instrumental and value-rational...

instrumentality—basically the idea that people and organisations are instrumentally rational—that is, adopt the best actions to achieve their goals. Secondly, there...

contrast, instrumental goals, or instrumental values, are only valuable to an agent as a means toward accomplishing its final goals. The contents and tradeoffs...

perform their self-determined best choice of action. One version of rationality is instrumental rationality, which involves achieving a goal using the most...

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with symbolic value or widespread popular appealPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Instrumental and value-rational action – Philosophical...

In ethics and social sciences, value denotes the degree of importance of some thing or action, with the aim of determining which actions are best to do...

affectional action they may want to take.[citation needed] Society portal Group action (sociology) Instrumental and value-rational action Interpersonal...

interactions and associations, including: Affectional action Instrumental action Traditional action Value-rational action Communicative action Dramaturgical...

Max Weber's means-end action structure is summarized in Instrumental and value-rational action Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) was a French theorist who presented...

lack of pain, and/or the fulfillment of one's preferences as having intrinsic value, making actions that produce them merely instrumentally valuable. On...

deviations from what Max Weber defined as rational social action: instrumentally rational and value rational. Merton also stated that "no blanket statement...

intrinsic and instrumental value. An entity has intrinsic value if it is good in itself, independent of external factors. An entity has instrumental value if...

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affectional, traditional, instrumental, and value-rational action. In his methodology, he distinguished himself from Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx in that his...

of Communicative Action. Communicative action for Habermas is possible given human capacity for rationality. Habermas says rationality is a capacity inherent...

of apparently 'non-rational' action, art and love on the one hand or the charisma of the leader on the other, as having any value. According to Habermas...

edited by Fabian Freyenhagen and Thom Brooks, London: Continuum, 2005 ISBN 978-0826478436 Instrumental and value-rational action "Fabian Freyenhagen". The...

closely connected to value theory, which studies the nature and types of value, like the contrast between intrinsic and instrumental value. Moral psychology...

Rational egoism (also called rational selfishness) is the principle that an action is rational if and only if it maximizes one's self-interest. As such...

Eccels' expectancy-value theory. Later Martin Fishbein and Icek Ajzen extended expectancy-value theory into the theory of reasoned action (TRA) by adding...

to be traded at its real exchange-value (though not the value of its product), thus making regularity and rational allocation in labour markets possible...

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ethical intuitionism), rationality and the theory of action. He is O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and previously held a chair...