Showing papers on "Ideal type published in 1996"

How are social-scientific concepts formed? A reconstruction of Max Weber's theory of concept formation

Abstract: L'A. montre que certains specialistes rejettent la methode de conceptualisation proposee par Weber. Il montre comment G. Oakes et T. Burger ont affirme que celle-ci repose sur l'epistemologie depassee d'H. Rickert. L'A. s'efforce de reconstruire la theorie de Weber. Il montre que ce dernier distingue les jugements, les concepts. Il montre que sa theorie propose un certain nombre de criteres d'abstraction et de synthese qui interviennent dans la construction des ideaux-types et d'evaluation de ces memes constructions. Il montre que sa theorie de la conceptualisation est coherente meme si elle demeure incomplete et qu'elle ne doit rien aux analyses de Rickert

The Pure Theory as Ideal Type: Defending Kelsen on the Basis of Weberian Methodology

Abstract: Although Hans Kelsen is widely regarded as the most influential legal positivist of his generation,' his \"pure theory\" of law has often struck theorists in the Anglo-American legal tradition as an exercise in theoretical systembuilding out of touch with legal reality.2 This is due in large part to Kelsen's Kantian (or neo-Kantian) methodology. This methodology, by claiming to identify and analyze the necessary conditions of legal cognition, appears to distance the concerns of the legal scholar from the problems facing both practicing lawyers, on the one hand, and social theorists and reformers, on the other. This Note seeks to reduce the strangeness of Kelsenian jurisprudence3