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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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01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theory of the process of expansion of the European Union, which deals with three depicting ideal types of entities, these three concepts describing the European union integration modes: economically, culturally and politically.
Abstract: Extension has been part of the European Union since its earlier days. Today, the EU consists of 27 member countries and five countries currently uphold candidate status. One of those five is Turkey. If the nation is granted membership into the EU, it will be the first Muslim country in the Union. It would also be due, to it’s population number, among the larger countries in the EU. This combination in itself is just one of the elements of the debate. This paper aims to assemble the favoured-arguments and the counter-arguments in the debate on: the EU and Turkey. The chosen theory concerns the process of expansion of the European Union. The theory deals with three depicting ideal types of entities, these three concepts describing the European Union integration modes: economically, culturally and politically. Each of these ideal types has a given individual discourse. It is these three discourses, pragmatic, ethical-political and moral, of which arguments are compiled below. Thereafter analyses are applied to the arguments based on an analysis framework, which is the methodological approach of this thesis. The essay question is in what idealtyp of entity is support most likely for a Turkish membership in the EU. From the analysis, it was determined that, from a European perspective, it is most likely that a Turkish entry into the EU would happen if the EU adopts the ideal type of a problem-solving device. While from a Turkish perspective, the most likelihood of a Turkish membership in the EU would occur if the ideal type of rights-based device were embraced. It was concluded that it would be worthwhile if these three concepts would be combined to allow for a more accurate picture of how likely a Turkish entry into the European Union is.

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01 Apr 2020
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present Max Weber as an economist and as a social scientist and discuss Weber's relations to economics, philosophy and sociology, showing that Weber has more in common with economists than it might seem at first sight.
Abstract: This article presents Max Weber as an economist and as a social scientist. Weber’s relations to economics, philosophy and sociology are discussed. Max Weber has more in common with economists than it might seem at first sight. His principle of value neutrality has become the foundation of the methodology of social sciences, including economics. The second point shared by Max Weber with standard economics is methodological individualism. The third point which a modern economist can learn from Max Weber is the concept of the ideal type.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors repair and develop Max Weber's ideas on the method of Verstehen and on ideal typical analysis by a sympathetic, critical confrontation with Karl, Popper's idea on the methodology of the social science, particularly with Poppers method of "situational analysis." The principal flaw in Weber's explicit methodology of ideal types, it is argued, is that Weber does not give an adequate account of the mechanism by which ideal types can be tested and corrected against reality.
Abstract: This article seeks to repair and develop Max Weber's ideas on the method of Verstehen and on ideal typical analysis by a sympathetic, critical confrontation with Karl, Popper's ideas on the methodology of the social science – particularly with Popper's method of "situational analysis." The principal flaw in Weber's explicit methodology of ideal types, it is argued, is that Weber does not give an adequate account of the mechanism by which ideal types can be tested and corrected against reality. Weber's ideal type analysis thus leads precisely to what he explicitly struggled to avoid – to reification or confusion of ideal types with objective reality. Popper's situational logic is presented as a closely related, "realistic" variant of ideal typical analysis, which, it is suggested, can help correct and complete Weber's methodological program by giving an account of the linkage between reality and the constructs of science.

1 citations

Dissertation
01 Jan 1971
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of eight small owner-managed manufacturing firms in the Kingston area of Surrey was carried out to investigate the dynamic process of entrepreneurial goal succession over time, where individual determined entrepreneurial goals, many of them having an essentially non-economic nature, were shown to change over time.
Abstract: The present research adopted as its focal point of study the higher participants in small owner-managed manufacturing firms in the Kingston area of Surrey. A case-study approach was used in the research. The main-study sample consisted of eight firms drawn from the printing and electronics industries, i.e. four firms from each industry. In addition, an entrepreneur involved in the manufacture of wire products who was in the process of selling his firm to a public company before joining the latter as Managing Director, was investigated in order to assist in a deeper understanding of the situation of the small entrepreneur. The principal findings of the study centred around an observed dynamic process of entrepreneurial goal succession. Individually determined entrepreneurial goals, many of them having an essentially non-economic nature, were shown to change over time. Further, the goals valued at any one time were seen to conform more or less closely with one of three hypothesised ideal type entrepreneurial roles, each based upon a separate latent social identity. The three ideal type entrepreneurial roles were termed. "Artisan", "Classical Entrepreneur" and "Manager". Various facets of entrepreneurial experience were found to be associated, with entrepreneurial role type. Role specificity, job satisfaction, leadership style, role time intensitivity, environmental perception and business ideology were found to be dependent variables. In accordance with the organisational goal model of organisational effectiveness, the structurally and culturally prescribed goals of the firms studied were found to be expressed essentially in terms of the concept of profit. This goal was seen, in turn, to have an identifiable relationship with each of the three entrepreneurial roles. This relationship resulted in a decline in entrepreneurial independence and. discretion as the entrepreneur moved from occupation of the "Artisan" role to occupation of the "Classical Entrepreneur" role and, finally, to occupation of the "Manager" role. The underlying motivation for entry into entrepreneurship, and for subsequent movement between entrepreneurial role types, was seen as being based upon experiences of social marginality. Each of the three ideal type roles was seen as possessing potential for a solution to marginality in a different area of the total entrepreneurial environment. Finally, a scheme for an understanding of the firm's relations with its environment was conceptualised in terms of six facets of environmental control and an attempt was made to quantify them. The thesis questionnaires and case studies are presented in a separate volume accompanying the thesis.

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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
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202311
202225
20216
202019
20199
201812