| Abstract: | In sociological action theory, individualistic positions typically criticize practice theoretical approaches in regard to their assumption that individual acts are the products of collective social processes. Instead, individualistic theories generally reduce every action and all social processes to individual actors. This critique on practice theoretical arguments, however, is based on a missing distinction between the cause and the creator of the social meaning of action. Drawing on conceptual distinctions between cause and creator, causality and coordination, and causality and constitution of meaning, I will reject the individualistic critique on theories of practice in this article. Furthermore, I will determine problems of a social theory that is based on an individualistic ontology more generally. |
