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Fourth London Symposium (London: 1961), pp. 469-476. MacKay, too, emphasizes the selective function of meaning but relates it not only to conscious states (experiences) but also to the totality of the conditionally built-in tendencies of an organism(l) to react to the environment. But in this way the, for us, decisive aspect of world preservation remains unclear or assumed as a system-performance in the form of memory etc. J. Gergen, eds.. The Selfin Social Interaction, vol. 1 (New York: 1968), pp.
Knowing subject posits himself as producer, or more precisely: as initiator of a 62 MEANING AS BASIC CONCEPT production process that others are also capable of initiating according to specifiable rules. Interest in this structure, and, by the way, the "technical" aspect of this structure, 68 are not concerned with the mechanics of the production process as such, but rather with the abstraction of the position of subject. , and thus of the concretely given societal structure as well. Both the pragmatic meaning criterion 69 appearing at the end of the nineteenth century and Max Weber's attempt to rationalize scientific concepts using ideal-typically insinuated means/ends relationships 70 are only later variations of this basic idea.
And this too is given in the meaningful constitution of the world: meaning is experienced as constituted through experience or through action and dealt with (behandelt) differently in each case. Furthermore, like all cases of attribution, the distinction here involves an element of convention. The attribution itself can be regarded as contingent, seen as something that could be different, and this contingence for its part can then be problematized. Sociologists should, for example, be interested in the question of how it is possible in simple social systems with elementary face-to-face interactions to reach adequately quick and reliable agreement about what, in any given case, is experience and what is action.