TY  - JOUR
TI  - Situated actions and vocabularies of motive
T2  - The Russian Sociological Review
IS  - The Russian Sociological Review
KW  - Mills
KW  - social action
KW  - motive
KW  - social situation
KW  - sociology of knowledge
AB  - In his classical paper C. Wright Mills suggests a novel view of the motives within the framework of sociology of knowledge. Contrasting an approach of sociology of knowledge to subjectivistic understanding of the motives as outer manifestation of the inner elements, Mills locates a particular types of action within typical frames of normative actions and socially situated clusters of motive. Motives is something that is imputed and avowed by actors, therefore it is necessary to consider, first, how different motives are assigned by different actors to themselves and others in certain social and historical situations, and second, how different vocabularies of motive conflict with each other and replace each other over time. In this case motives are not a manifestations of some inner impulses but a justifications of the behavior.
AU  - Charles Wright Mills
UR  - https://sociologica.hse.ru/en/2011-10-3/46796428.html
PY  - 2011
SP  - 98-109
VL  - 10