ABSTRACT
Diverse physical behaviours are constituted as forms of action by their intentional direction and social location. Many actions and social practices are relational in nature. A great many behaviours are constituted as actions by collective representations of the social significance of certain forms of behaviour according to a local convention. Behaviours are constituted as actions and social practices by their location in social relational contexts. A great many behaviours are also constituted as actions by participant agent representations of the intentional direction of the behaviour: that is, the point and purpose of the behaviour as represented by the person engaged in it. One reason why many researchers are disinclined to admit that human actions and social practices are constituted by social relations and representations is because they feel that this would somehow mean that the explanatory domain of social psychological
