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发帖数: 759 | 1 The Ideal Type
In his effort to escape from the individualizing and
particularizing approach of German Geisteswissenschaft and
historicism, Weber developed a key conceptual
tool, the notion of the ideal type. It will be recalled that
Weber argued that no scientific system is ever capable of
reproducing all concrete reality, nor can any
conceptual apparatus ever do full justice to the infinite
diversity of particular phenomena. All science involves
selection as well as abstraction. Yet the social |
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