Ricerc@Sapienza

Re-read Weber and Pareto. Reason and sensibility in social action theory Social action theory constitutes an absolute novelty in the panorama of sociology between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. It marks the recovery of the role of the subject (social actor) in the context of social processes and Vilfredo Pareto and Max Weber are two of his greatest exponents. Starting from the foundations of the theory of social action, the paper focuses on the relationship between emotions and rational action.