Ideal type

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

Margins I: Post-fascism

Abstract: In this chapter, el-Ojeili focusses on the far-Right margin of the contemporary utopian constellation, examining post-fascism. A five-featured ideal type of fascism is developed, each element of which is loaded with utopian significance. el-Ojeili demonstrates that versions of each of these ideal typical features can be located across the contemporary far-Right. Drawing on Bloch’s engagement with fascist utopianism, el-Ojeili examines the utopian and dystopian figuration visible within today’s far-Right, the combination of “the future in the past”, elements of the post-modern present, and appeals to a novel future. Such post-fascist utopianism, el-Ojeili argues, has been neglected in the critical literature, which has instead emphasized the important, very visible fears found within this ideological ensemble.

Bureaucracy and efficiency: enugu state civil service in focus

Abstract: This paper tries to assess the level of efficiency in the bureaucracy and the functions of the bureaucracy. It is hoped that the study will help to educate civil servants on their expected roles and factors that can make them to be more efficient in the delivery of social service to the citizenry. The paper adopted the bureaucratic theory as the theoretical frame work which lays emphasis on the adherence of the ideal type principles of bureaucracy as advocated by Max Weber the study exposed several issues about the bureaucracy and efficiency among which; are that disregard of administrative ethics as one of the major causes of inefficiency in the civil service. It was equally discovered that there has emerged new approaches that are better than the ideal type. The paper recommends that civil servants should be enlightened on the need to be administratively ethical.

The Social Work Student: Towards an Ideal Type

Abstract: (1978). The Social Work Student: Towards an Ideal Type. Journal of Further and Higher Education: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 72-75.

Modernization, Democracy, and Morality: The Work of Barrington Moore, Jr.

Abstract: This review considers three recent works from Barrington Moore, Jr.'s illustrious career. Moral Aspects of Economic Growth is a collection of essays that are generally concerned with, but not limited to, the problem of morality and markets. Moral Purity and Persecution in History is aptly titled, as it considers the problem of moral purity among the ancient He brews, in prerevolutionary France, during the French Revolution, and in Asian traditions. Democracy, Revolution and History is a Festschrift edited by Theda Skocpol in which a collection of outstanding scholars evaluate and extend Moore's most important work, The Social Origins of Dictator ship and Democracy.1 In this review, I will try to place Moore in the history of social thought, and interpret and assess his contribution to our understanding of the rise and meaning of modernity. Barrington Moore may not have the impact of Max Weber or Karl Marx, but he nonetheless made a rare contribution to the tradition they represent. The two books by Moore under review here often remind this reader of Max Weber. Moore is sometimes in dialogue with Weber, as when he rejects Weber's ascetic image of early capitalists and sometimes makes use of Weber's methods or ideas, as when he crafts an ideal type. Like Weber, Moore explores the nexus between economics, institutions, and ideas and has little use for mono-causality or teleology. The most striking resemblance, though, is the breadth of history and geography Bar rington Moore can cite. Moore may not call on ancient Egypt quite as often as Weber?he himself cites the omission of Islam as a weakness of Moral Purity and Persecution in History?nonetheless, his comparative history draws on China, India, ancient Hebrew traditions, and medieval and modern Europe. And like Weber again, Moore's comparative history leads to the present. Stalin, Mao, Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher are also present.