Situation analysis
In sociology, a situation analysis is the rational reconstruction of a decision-making situation in which a person was at the time of the action. This reconstructs how the actor was influenced by his environment, the actors and his own drives. His rational action is assumed.
James Farr divides situation analyzes into two essential elements:
- Modeling the situation
- Principle of rationality
In the modeling, actors, values, issues, etc. are put together in the way that the agent subjectively perceived them. The objective state is irrelevant because it was not available for the action. The principle of rationality only shows that the actors behaved rationally, whereby the limitation is well aware.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Haller: European integration as an elite process: The end of a dream? VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2009.
- ^ Max Haller: Sociological Theory in Systematic-Critical Comparison , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006.
- ^ Karl Popper : The principle of rationality . In: D. Miller (Ed.): Karl Popper: Lesebuch , Mohr Siebeck, 2005.
- ↑ James Farr: Situational analysis: Explanation in political science. In: The journal of politics. 1985 47: 1085-1107.
- ^ Markus Hadler: The agony of choice , Lit Verlag 2005.