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en-wikipedia-org-3105		Ideal type - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1299	149	57	Weber himself wrote: "An ideal type is formed by the one-sided accentuation of one or more points of view and by the synthesis of a great many diffuse, discrete, more or less present and occasionally absent concrete individual phenomena, which are arranged according to those onesidedly emphasized viewpoints into a unified analytical construct..."[2] It is a useful tool for comparative sociology in analyzing social or economic phenomena, having advantages over a very general, abstract idea and a specific historical example. However, the conceptualizing routine of neoclassical economics differs from the genuine approach of Max Weber in that Neoclassicals focused exactly on finding and deducing economic laws (in accordance with the efforts of natural sciences), while the ideal-types of the Weberian sociology only supported the interpretative understanding of past events with no references to causal laws. Finch (eds.), Max Weber on the methodology of the social sciences. Max Weber (5.2: Ideal Type).	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3105.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3105.txt