Ideal type

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

Affirmative action and equal opportunity policies—the relevance of a dead German

Abstract: The aim of this article is to place affirmative action and equal opportunity policies in the context of Organization Theory. It does this by relating these policies to the ideal type of bureaucracy as described by Max Weber as well as his conception of rational action. One of the main arguments raised is that affirmative action and equal opportunity policies have contradictory implications for the ideal type of bureaucracy. Another is that acceptance of affirmative action, in particular, may require us to go beyond Weber's conceptual scheme. These ideas are illustrated by means of a consideration of the Employment Equity Act recently passed by the South African legislature.

Ideal Types in Max Weber’s Sociology of Religion:Some Theoretical Inspirations for a Study of the Religious Field

Abstract: Max Weber is widely known as the author of ideal types of power. However, he also developed ideal types of religious attitudes. The article presents his original three ideal types and shows how they can be complemented by a fourth one. The fourth ideal type is based on analysis of magic as religious practice.

Webers idealtypus als methode zur bestimmung des begriffsinhaltes theoretischer begriffe in den kulturwissenschaften

Abstract: Weber's Ideal Type as a Method of Forming the Content of Theoretical Concepts in Social Sciences}. Max Weber introduced the ideal type as the specific method of concept formation in social sciences. But the ideal type is not established in social research. Instead, authors in philosophy of science until today try to reconstruct and interpret what Weber said about ideal types as well as what might be their importance in Weber's social theory. The thesis of the following paper is that the difficulties in understanding Weber's ideal types are linked with Weber's intensional logic of concept formation. The thesis is defended in three steps. The first step deals with Weber's understanding of what is a scientific question in cultural sciences. Secondly Weber's critical arguments against positivism, hegelianism and historism are worked out. Thirdly, Weber's method of concept formation is reconstructed.

Long-Term Care and Gender Equality: Fuzzy-Set Ideal Types of Care Regimes in Europe

Abstract: Recent changes in the organization of long-term care have had controversial effects on gender inequality in Europe. In response to the challenges of ageing populations, almost all countries have adopted reform measures to secure the increasing resource needs for care, to ensure care services by different providers, to regulate the quality of services, and overall to recalibrate the work-life balance for men and women. These reforms are embedded in different family ideals of intergenerational ties and dependencies, divisions of responsibilities between state, market, family, and community actors, and backed by wider societal support to families to care for their elderly and disabled members. This article disentangles the different components of the notion of ‘(de)familialization’ which has become a crucial concept of care scholarship. We use a fuzzy-set ideal type analysis to investigate care policies and work-family reconciliation policies shaping long-term care regimes. We are making steps to reveal aggregate gender equality impacts of intermingling policy dynamics and also to relate the analysis to migrant care work effects. The results are explained in a four-pronged ideal type scheme to which European countries belong. While only Nordic and some West European continental countries are close to the double earner, supported carer ideal type, positive outliers prove that transformative gender relations in care can be construed not only in the richest and most generous welfare countries in Europe.

Bend sinister: how the constitution saved the republic and lost itself

Abstract: I n the construction of a state, legitimacy is everything and nothing. Students of the state have taken a wrong turn by following Max Weber's formulation of the ideal typical state as "a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physicalforce within a given territory" (Gerth and Mills 1946, 78).' Although an ideal type can be helpful, the concept can be frozen as an absolute. I call it Weber's syndrome because he left no place for illegit imacy. There is, for example, no reference to illegitimacy in Gerth and Mills' carefully compiled essays of Weber. And a Google search revealed that "political legitimacy" came up with 219,000 hits while "political illegitimacy" came up with 3,ooo hits. "Gov ernment legitimacy" earned 18,400 hits while "government ille gitimacy" received 195.2 It is highly probable that Americans make illegitimacy a taboo word because it suggests that makes us just another ordinary state. Every state is the cold remains of conquest, control-by-force. Thus, on the coat of arms of every dictatorship, monarchy republic, or democracy, including that of the U.S., there ought to be a promi