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Ideal type

About: Ideal type is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 400 publications have been published within this topic receiving 8012 citations.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the "hypothetical" and "self-referential" nature of Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism.
Abstract: In this article, I address the ‘hypothetical’, ‘self-referential’ and ‘constructed’ nature of Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the ‘Spirit’ of Capitalism. In particular, I argue that complaints of ...

9 citations

01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how a champion promotes an organizational innovation and sells it to the top of the organization using network theory, sociology, impression management, transformational leadership and influence tactics theories.
Abstract: This article explores how a champion promotes an organizational innovation and sells it to the top of the organization. 41 champions were interviewed at lenght and in 22 cases, from 2 to 10 people in his organization. We draw upon network theory, sociology, impression management, transformational leadership and influence tactics theories. We have uncovered three strategies based on social capital, personality and expertise of champions. We show thr HR implications for developing this champion population and getting the most of it in the medium and long term

8 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a study of fifty initiatives aimed at reducing energy usage among Swiss households is presented, which uncover what representations of change and forms of engagement are put forward by these initiatives, and the related policy implications.

8 citations

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TL;DR: The use of ideal typical constructs in qualitative research (exemplified by patient's illness careers) allows systematic validity testing despite the important differences in the conceptualization of social reality which is used in quantitative research as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: It has been argued that fundamentally different methodological approaches have made for ‘two sociologies’ This view has obscured the fact that the problem of validity has to be tackled independently of any specific methodological premises because of the textuality of sociological data This does not necessarily imply, however, a single, unified strategy for validity testing In this paper, some basic theoretical presuppositions underlying the approach to validity testing in quantitative research will be contrasted with the strategies offered by Max Weber's methodological writings on the ideal type It is argued that the use of ideal typical constructs in qualitative research (exemplified by patient's illness careers) allows systematic validity testing despite the important differences in the conceptualization of social reality which is used in quantitative research, thus serving the purpose of any empirical sociological research, that is, to gain valid insight into societies' concrete reality

8 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a taxonomy of roles based on the degree of flexibility in the role expectations, which they use for the analysis of social systems in industry, politics, and voluntary associations.
Abstract: T HE sociologist has only to attempt to answer the more penetrating questions of his brighter sophomores to realize that his professional fraternity lacks consensus on the conceptualization of "role." If he has assigned two or more readings on the concept, his students may well have found two or more definitions of it. And if he should make so bold as to teach a course which emphasizes research, he is really courting trouble when the floor is thrown open for a discussion of the utility of such a concept in a science of interaction. "Inner-directed" and "other-directed" have become almost popular jargon, but they seem to be more closely related to personality and value taxonomy than to interaction analysis.' Parsons says that he conceives the "specific-diffuse" dichotomy as a system goal concept rather than a classification of status-pair expectations." We have, then, the division of statuses and roles into "ascribed" and "achieved," a usage considerably more honored in time and in textbook than in research application. While these are meaningful and useful terms for the description of some institutional behaviors and for the comparison of diverse cultures, they offer us little in the analysis of many social systems: industry, politics, and voluntary associations, for example. Yet, to many of us, "role" is one of the basic analytic constructs, if not the core concept, in sociology and social psychology. Some taxonomy of roles, however simple, would seem desirable. We have been driven by our research to construct a classification based upon the degree of flexibility in the role expectations. The terms were derived for use in a project dealing with occupational roles and will be presented here as they apply to this research. While this dichotomy is subject to the usual difficulties which attend ideal type constructs, it is to be hoped that, as empirical work refines it, the classification may be found more generally useful in the analysis of interaction in other spheres. Sociologists need a theory of occupations. We have a theory of industrial organization by Weber out of Roethlisberger and Dickson, and most recently refined by Gouldner.3 We have a start toward a theory of industrial administration, thanks largely to Barnard, Whyte, and the applied anthropologists.4 Our knowledge of occupations, however, is almost entirely limited to descriptive materials presented without any attempt at theoretic systematization. The bulk of our data on occupations consists of facts which we possess because they were gathered peripherally in research with some theoretical orientation other than that of a sociology of occupations. Studies of the general social structure of industry, for example, through their descriptions of formal and informal organization, have led to an analysis of the stratification of occupations in work plants.5 Community stratification studies

8 citations


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202311
202225
20216
202019
20199
201812