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%T Goals and Behaviour %A Stuchlík, Milan %J Historická sociologie / Historical Sociology %N 2 %P 9-42 %D 2014 %K goal orientation of behaviour; groups; norms; causal explanation of behaviour; individual strategies %@ 1804-0616 %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-423769 %X In the first part of this paper I intend to argue that anthropologists have a predominantly causal conception of explanation and that the only feasible way to avoid this is to apply consistently the assumption of goal-orientation of behaviour, that is to hold what could broadly be called a teleological conception of explanation – a view that developments are due to the purpose or design that is served by them. Further on I will try to show that groups and norms do not exist and act independently of people. They have no existence as “things” apart from forming a part of the relevant stock of knowledge of the members of society. They can be brought to bear on actions only by people invoking them. Thus we have to make a sharp distinction between the conceptual or notional level of phenomena, and the transactional or processual level, sometimes known as cultural and social respectively. %C MISC %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info