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In 'Economy and Society', Max Weber constructs a celebrated fourfold typology of social action (ação social) based on the subjective meaning (sentido subjetivo) attributed by the actor. Which of the following correctly describes 'instrumentally rational action' (ação racional com relação a fins)?

Action guided purely by unreflective habits, long-standing customary everyday routines, and ancestral unexamined traditions. Action determined directly by intense emotional impulses, immediate affective reactions, or unmediated psychological sentiments. Action oriented toward systematically evaluating and selecting appropriate means to attain clearly defined, calculated ends. Action motivated exclusively by unconditional allegiance to an absolute ethical, aesthetic, or religious duty regardless of practical outcomes.

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Action oriented toward systematically evaluating and selecting appropriate means to attain clearly defined, calculated ends.

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