Abstract
The symposium theme at the annual meeting of the Kanto Sociological Society was a review of the relation between social action and social order. It is necessary for us to reconsider the relation between social action and social order in connection with the ‘subjective-objective schema of social action’, because this schema concerns not only the relation between social actors and sociologists but also the relation between social actors. Namely, this schema is related not only to an epistemological problem but also to substantives issues of social action and social order. Should we distinguish subjective meaning and objective meaning? Is it possible for us to ask about the signification of social action apart from social order? In this paper I would like to consider the significance of three reports in the symposium from this perspective.
