List and define each of the authors’ four coordinates of action and order for mapping theory, then create a question regarding an activity in our society, covered in class, and provide the possible answers or reasons for this activity by utilizing each of the four coordinates.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Order - It asks what accounts for the patterns or predictability of behavior that lead us to experience social life as routine. Collective - Society is thus pictured as an overarching system that works down on individuals and groups to determine the shape of the social order. Society is understood as a reality sui generis that operates according to its own logic distinct from the will of individuals: Individual - Here, it is individuals and groups creating, recreating, or altering the social order that works up to produce society. This position grants more autonomy to actors, because they are seen as relatively free to reproduce the patterns and routines of social life (i.e., the social order) or transform them. Action - the factors that motivate individuals or groups to act. The forces held to be responsible for steering individual or group behavior in a particular direction. Nonrational - the individual takes his bearings from subjective ideals, symbolic codes, values, morals, norms, traditions, the quest for meaning, unconscious desires, or emotional states, or a combination of these. Rational - It contends that individual and group actions are motivated primarily by the attempt to maximize rewards while minimizing costs. Here, individuals and groups are viewed essentially as calculating and strategic as they seek to achieve the “selfish” goal of improving their position.