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be physically present for action to be regarded as social
action....” (Team of Experts, 2000). It is concerned with
the interpretive understanding of human social action
and the meaning people attach to their own actions and
behaviors and those of others. Weber was a renowned
scholar who like Marx, wrote in several academic fields.
He agreed with much Marxian theses but did not accept
his idea that economic forces are central to social
change. Weber argues that we cannot understand
human behavior by just looking at statistics. Every
activity and behavior of people needs to be interpreted.
He argued that a sociologist must aim at what are called
subjective meanings, the ways in which people
interpret their own behavior or the meanings people
attach their own behavior (Henslin and Nelson, 1995;
Rosneberg, 1987).