Max Weber on Ideal Types and Social Relationship

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Social sciences explore and investigated the society nuisance employing different methodological tool like functionalistic, materialistic approaches but the Weber, instead,emphasising on structural orientation, moved towards the individual understanding to portrait discomfort existed in society. Thus, the Weber being scoologist and theoretician, fought with both reductionist and surface approach carried by social scientist and historians respectively.His un-comfortability reflected into his rejection of prevalent evolutionary and mono casual theories consist of idealistic or materialistic, mechanistic or oraganistic design. Both the reductionism and historians persistently search for hidden deeper causes and ingrained aversion opposite to historian transcendent concept. Taking this preview under consideration, he focused utility of concept and typologies to provide advantages for the researcher. Based on this, he developed the sociological theory and formulated fundamental idea based on social action. It is interesting to note that Weber’s scrutiny of social action, in fact, associated with individual ideal type and historical ideal types which emerged to ‘general ideal types’.