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Ideal type

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 Sep 1983-Polity
TL;DR: In this article, Hekman argues that Weber's concept of the ideal type is methodologically sound and logically consistent and provides a common basis for the analysis of subjective meaning and structural forms.
Abstract: Max Weber's concept of the ideal type would seem to have fallen into neglect in contemporary social science. Professor Hekman argues that Weber's concept is methodologically sound and logically consistent. Inasmuch as it offers a common basis for the analysis of subjective meaning and structural forms it may provide a corrective to what she sees as the present methodological disarray in social theory.

66 citations

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TL;DR: However, the vague definition of social citizenship as given by T. H. Marshall means that it is difficult to see exactly which concepts best characterise social citizenship, let alone which indices measure the extent of their change over time as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Many accounts claim that social citizenship has declined during the last 20 years in Britain under the Conservative and New Labour Governments. However, the vague definition of social citizenship as given by T. H. Marshall means that it is difficult to see exactly which concepts best characterise social citizenship, let alone which indices measure the extent of their change over time. Some commentators imply an 'ideal type' model of change from a national statist model of post-war citizenship based on rights and equality to a hollowed-out, civil society model based on duties and inclusion. While there is some validity in these views, they do not represent the whole picture. An alternative account, 'the hidden history of social citizenship', points to a more limited, conservative notion of citizenship. It follows that recent trends do not signal such a sharp decline of Marshallian social citizenship as is conventionally assumed.

61 citations

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Harro Höpfl1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a re-examination of the Weberian corpus and discuss the discrepancies and lacunae in Weber's accounts, and the use and utility of ideal types and the problems of ideal typifications.
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a re‐examination of the Weberian corpus.Design/methodology/approach – Discusses the Weberian corpus and the discrepancies and lacunae in Weber's accounts. Outlines “Weberian” bureacracy in the post‐bureacracy literature, the use and utility of ideal types and the problems of ideal typifications.Findings – The so‐called “Weberian ideal type” which is the standard reference point in bureaucracy versus post‐bureaucracy discussion is only ambiguously related to what Weber himself wrote. Usually “Weberian” bureaucracy is equated with rule‐governed hierarchy. This is a gross over‐simplification of Weber's thought, but his “ideal type” demands radical re‐tooling in order to be usable. The components he itemized and the importance he attached to them are inconsistent, they are abstracted from exemplars which Weber privileged without explanation, and he gave no unambiguous criteria for deciding which components this ideal type should include or exclude. Moreover, h...

61 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that we are little closer to a working psychological model of the dictator than Plato took us with his brilliant sketch of the ideal type of the "tyrant" in The Republic.
Abstract: Significantly, we have few if any studies of the totalitarian O dictator as a personality type. It may be that we are little closer to a working psychological model of him than Plato took us with his brilliant sketch of the ideal type of the “tyrant” in The Republic. The contemporary literature on totalitarianism does, of course, contain materials that are relevant to the problem of characterization of the totalitarian dictator. Yet no frontal attack appears to have been made upon the problem. The purpose of the present article is to argue the need for one, and to do this in the context of a critical reexamination of the theory of totalitarianism. In the course of it I shall put forward some ideas of possible use in developing a conception of the dictator as a personality type.

58 citations


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