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65; emphasis in original). And in the discussion of techniques (which are subordinate components of deliberately purposive action) the qualitative difference is that: 'Economic action is primarily oriented to the problem of choosing the end to which a thing should be applied, technology to the problem given the end of choosing the appropriate means' (1g68, pp. 66-7; emphasis in original). Sociological Theories rif the Economy How then is end-selection different from the selection of means in terms of complexes of su~jective meanings?

An automatic process. e. a recognition structure- or culture is conceived in the later sense as constitutive, in which the systems of action become in the last analysis mere 'slices' of an idealist hierarchy of effectivity. This alternative only overcomes the inconsistency of the earlier position in so far as the claimed autonomy of the systems of action is denegated in favour of a fullblown idealist theology. The second form of reconciliation is no more successful than the first. In this case the claim that the sub-systems must involve the capacities of human subject might be seen as perfectly consistent with the general theory of action in that it has always been made explicit that social systems are 'actors'.

70). The clement of rationality, whether instrumental or value-oriented, demarcates forms of economic actions which are individually conscious Sociological Theories of the Economy and discriminating from plrysicalry or traditionalry derived forms of action. In these latter two cases the meaningful element in actions is (i) in the case of physically anchored 'affects': 'on the borderline of what can be considered 'meaningfully' oriented .... It may, for instance, consist in an uncontrolled reaction to some exceptional stimulus'; and (ii) in the case of traditional orientations: 'it is very often a matter of almost automatic reaction to habitual stimuli which has been repeatedly followed' ( 1968, p.

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