LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Habermas’s theory of communicative action rests on the idea that social order ultimately depends on the capacity of actors to recognize the intersubjective validity of the different claims on which social cooperation depends.

Detailed explanation-2: -III. Habermas distinguishes four kinds of action by individuals in society (TCA1, pp. 85-86):–teleological action, with strategic action as a subset; Page 7 7–normatively regulated action; –dramaturgical action; –communicative action.

Detailed explanation-3: -Habermas’ main claim was that the knowledge of scientific and social progress is tacitly guided by three types of “knowledge constitutive interests”-technical, practical, and emancipatory-that are “anthropologically deep-seated” in the human species.