Talking Your Self into It How and When Accounts Shape Motivation for Action

Following Mills, several prominent sociologists have encouraged researchers to analyze actors’ motive talk not as data on the subjective desires that move them to pursue particular ends but as post hoc accounts oriented toward justifying actions already undertaken. Combining insights from hermeneuti...

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Published in:	Sociological theory Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 257 - 281
Main Authors:	Winchester, Daniel, Green, Kyle D.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles, CA American Sociological Association 01.09.2019 SAGE Publications
Subjects:	Accounts Careers Comparative analysis Ethnography Exegesis & hermeneutics Martial arts Motivation Original Articles Religion Researcher subject relations Social action Sociologists Subjectivity Talking accounts culture identity ethnography motivation
ISSN:	0735-2751, 1467-9558
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