This point of view ignores that human beings have selves and that they act by making indications to themselves. All sociological conceptions of human society fail to recognize that the individuals that compose it have selves. These conceptions dont regard the social actions by humans as being constructed by them but action is instead treated as a product of factors that play on and through individuals. General sociological views and symbolic interaction conflict again under social action. In the symbolic interaction view social action is in the acting individuals, who fit their respective lines of action to one another through a process of interpretation, group action is a collective action of such individuals.
Sociological conceptions lodge social action in the action of society or in some unit of society.
For example, by treating societies or human groups as social systems, group action is expression of a system or group action is an expression of the function of a society or a group. Also, group action is the outward expression of elements lodged in society or group, like societal purposes, cultural demands, social values or institutional stresses. This ignores the view of group life or action as the collective actions of individuals trying to get through life situations. By large, sociologists do not study human society in terms of its acting units. Instead, they are forced to view human society in terms of structure or organization and to treat social action as an expression of such structure or organization.