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IDEAL TYPE [2 records]

Record 1 2003-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology (General)
CONT

Weber never dealt satisfactorily with the question of how the ideal-typical implications of such a doctrine as predestination, which are compelling for the true believer, are internalized by ordinary believers, with all their vacillations and compromises.

OBS

ideal type: a construct abstracted from experience in which the individual elements are combined to form a whole that is conceptually independent of empirical factors or variables, but against which particular examples of the appropriate class found in life can be measured.

Key term(s)
  • ideal type

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie (Généralités)
DEF

Qui relève du type-idéal c'est-à-dire d'une figure abstraite qui permet de subsumer et de classer une réalité très diverse dans ses particularités.

CONT

Mais elles présentent un danger, celui qui s'attache, pour recourir à des concepts weberiens, à toute construction idéaltypique procédant d'une accentuation unilatérale d'un ou plusieurs points de vue et visant à «former un tableau de pensée homogène».

Spanish

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Record 2 2003-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology (General)
DEF

A construct that serves as a heuristic device developed for methodological purposes in the analysis of social phenomena.

OBS

An ideal type is constructed from elements and characteristics of the phenomena under investigation but it is not intended to correspond to all of the characteristics of any one case. An ideal type is a sort of composite picture that all the cases of a particular phenomenon will be compared with.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie (Généralités)
DEF

Chez M. Weber, concept de référence construit à partir de l'expérience et obtenu en «accentuant unilatéralement un ou plusieurs points de vue et en enchaînant une multitude de phénomènes donnés isolément, diffus et discrets qu'on ordonne pour former un tableau homogène» grâce auquel on peut dresser et analyser ce qui est observé dans la réalité empirique, ex : la bureaucratie, le capitalisme, le pouvoir charismatique, etc.

Spanish

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