Turner claims that each Ndembu symbol makes visible and accessible to purposive public action basic elements in their society and culture.

Melossi contends that earlier attempts by Box and Hale to use an argument based upon the 'unintended consequences of purposive social action' are limited.

Cheerfully now, happy with the expectation of purposive action, he found himself thinking of the things to be done that day.

An achieved status is entered as a result of some degree of purposive action and choice.

According to one description of the condition, "Personality, memory, purposive action, social interaction, sentience, thought and even emotional states are gone."

This framework proposes four broad domains of volition, planning, purposive action, and effective performance as working together to accomplish global executive functioning needs.

Above all, if the United States is to return to a time of greater caring, we must avoid being as simplistic about the possibilities of purposive social action as liberals once were.

This 'purposive rational action' is steered by the "media" of the state, which substitute for oral language as the medium of the coordination of social action.

According to the perversity thesis, any purposive action to improve some feature of the political, social, or economic order only serves to exacerbate the condition one wishes to remedy.

He emphasized that his term "purposive action... [is exclusively] concerned with 'conduct' as distinct from 'behavior.'