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Write short note: Concept of ideal type and its limitations.

  • UPSC 2006
  • Sociological Thinkers

The ideal type is Max Weber's device for turning the endless variety of social reality into analysable concepts. In his 1904 essay on "objectivity" in social science, he described it as formed by the one-sided accentuation of one or more points of view and the synthesis of scattered concrete phenomena into a unified analytical construct.

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