Ideal type

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

Alienation and the Negotiation Process.

Abstract: The author makes three assumptions in discussing the effect of collective negotiations on teachers' sense of alienation: first, alienation is a multidimensional concept that, in this context, is taken to derive from within the organizational setting of the school system; second, school systems are organized as bureaucracies containing more or less the general characteristics of Weber's "ideal type" bureaucracy; and third, negotiations in school systems deal with both the,:centralization of authority and the rule structure of the organization. The conceptual scheme ba'sed on these assumptions is that teacher alienation from work, the sense of powerlessness and meaninglessness, is related to the extent to which the bureaucratic structure of the school provides the means for teachers to become involved in the decisions affecting the rules and regulations governing their. work. The negotiation process is seen as a mealts whereby teachers may have increased input into the decision-making authority of the organization and, consequently, provide a rule structure that has more meaning to them. Three hypotheses are derived as a guide to further research. What is critical is the degree to which the negotiation process is truly a joint decision-making one'and the nature of the rule structure that develops from the negotiations. (Author/IRT)

The Ideal Type, the Sociologist and the Contemporary Historian: A Case Study in a Feminist Appropriation of Psychoanalysis

Abstract: In 1978, Christopher Lasch, effectively operating within the 'culture and personality' tradition spanning two decades after the mid-1930s; construed central issues of women and identity in terms of narcissism. The narcissist was an ideal type Lasch proposed had taken over from Weber's 'individual' as the typical personality of post-industrial western culture. Before Lasch, ideal type discourse on typical personality implied 'man', but with Lasch, the possibility arose that it might rather imply 'woman'. Some feminists argued that when Lasch said 'narcissistic', he meant 'feminine'. To them, Lasch was not only anti-feminist but anti-feminine. Feminists accused Lasch of conflating feminine identity as it had emerged in the nineteenthand twentieth-century west, with narcissism, which he construed as a form of cultural pathology. This paper argues that Lasch's work and its feminist critique point up the need to develop the feminist appropriation of