Conclusion
This chapter has taken us a long way from the comparatively simple notions of human action discussed in the previous one. The basic assumption is the same: the social sciences are concerned with understanding meaningful human action, but the approaches discussed in this chapter all emphasize the significance of the wider culture, whether we call it a language game, a form of life, a tradition or a community.
The individual and the meaning of individual action is framed by the wider culture in the same way perhaps as the sentences that I speak as an individual are framed by the rules of the language in which I speak. But they all leave us with an interesting question: To what extent are we prisoners of our own tradition, our culture? And can we see outside it or beyond it? How can we question it?
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