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Write short note: Ideal types and social analysis.

  • UPSC 1984
  • Sociological Thinkers

Max Weber saw the ideal type as a working instrument of research, not a definition to memorise. It is built by one-sided accentuation of selected traits into a consistent model that no real case fully matches. In social analysis it works like a measuring rod: the researcher holds real cases against it, and the gaps…

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