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Ideal type
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the reasons for the bad reputation of homo oeconomicus and ideal types and suggest that a common retrieval of their honour could be thinkable.
Abstract: Neither the model of homo oeconomicus nor Max Weber's concept of the ideal type have a good reputation these days - to try to combine the two does not seem a promising idea, therefore. It could result in the attempt to tie two sinking ships together - to borrow a metaphor of Alasdair MacIntyre's which he used in a dierent context as a comment on the programme of Analyse & Kritik 30 years ago. But perhaps the reasons for the bad reputation of homo oeconomicus and ideal types are connected so that a common retrieval of their honour could be thinkable. I will contemplate this question in the following considerations that are not very systematical but rather exemplary and fragmentary.
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TL;DR: This article presented a heuristic attempt at understanding economic action in South Korea based on the idea of experience-near concepts and constructed by the terms "affiliation", "indebtedness" and "mediation".
Abstract: This article presents a heuristic attempt at understanding economic action in South Korea. The heuristic is based on the idea of experience-near concepts — as introduced by Clifford Geertz — and constructed by the terms 'affiliation', 'indebtedness' and 'mediation'. In order to enrich the understanding of economic action in Korea I chose the interplay between the functionalist and the interpretivist paradigm. Qualitative interviews with native and foreign executives were conducted on site and interpreted against the background of (Neo-)Confucianism in South Korea. For the purpose of the study I developed 'the (Neo-)Confucian way of life' as an ideal type, following Max Weber's 'ideal typical construction of meaning'.
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08 Oct 2018
TL;DR: Weber did not develop the concept of bureaucracy as part of a quest to advance a science of organisations, or in order to do a microanalysis of the internal structure of particular organisational units.
Abstract: It is doubtful whether Max Weber would have been appreciative of his current status as the father of organisation theory. Weber did not develop the concept of bureaucracy as part of a quest to advance a science of organisations, or in order to do a microanalysis of the internal structure of particular organisational units. The concept of bureaucracy was an ideal-typical concept developed as a point of departure for comparisons across historical periods and geographic settings. Weber’s research was motivated by macroscopic and historical questions such as ‘why did capitalism develop in the West’ and, ‘how do persons in the West and other civilizations attach meaning to their activities?’ Unlike consultants and organisation theorists that make use of him today, it was not a major concern for Weber to develop criteria for the most efficient kinds of organisations. Rather, his concern was to identify variations in administrative and bureaucratic cultures and patterns by the means of the bureaucratic ideal type. It is maintained in modern textbooks in organisation theory that there has been a development from a closed and rationalistic paradigm towards an understanding of organisations as open and natural systems, and Max Weber’s theory of bureaucracy is taken as a point of departure for this kind of narrative. This classification of Weber as an example of a rational and closed approach is highly questionable. The cross-societal and historical approach used so effectively by Weber, is put on a sidetrack in such mainstream narratives. It would be more in the spirit of Weber to focus on organising as an activity, bureaucracy as an ethos and to study organisations within their particular political and cultural contexts.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe and explain three processes whereby social knowledge is metamorphosed into theoretical dogmatism, theoretical alienation, and theoretical slavery, based on referring to the ideal type of social knowledge.
Abstract: Social knowledge is more dynamic than natural science. A full recognition of this character is the precondition for upholding the validity of statements in social knowledge. In order to maintain the validity of such statements and to avoid the metamorphosis of social knowledge into other theoretical constructs, this paper, based on referring to the ideal type of social knowledge, aims to describe and explain three processes whereby social knowledge is metamorphosed into theoretical dogmatism, theoretical alienation, and theoretical slavery.
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TL;DR: The legal positivism of Kelsen is widely regarded as the most influential legal positivist of his generation, but it has often struck theorists in the Anglo-American legal tradition as an exercise in theoretical systembuilding out of touch with legal reality.
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
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