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What does Weber mean by ideal types? How is the concept relevant in sociology?

  • UPSC 1989
  • Sociological Thinkers

For Max Weber, social reality is an endless flow of unique events, and no concept can copy it. In "'Objectivity' in Social Science and Social Policy" (1904) he defined the ideal type as a construct formed by the one-sided accentuation of one or more points of view. The researcher synthesises many scattered concrete phenomena into…

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