Idealization, abstraction and ideal types

Stephen Clarke

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Idealization, abstraction and ideal types

Stephen Clarke

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Abstract

Abstraction and idealization are mental processes that are employed in order to simplify and organize empirical information to enable the use of laws and models to explain that information. Ideal types are a form of idealization that have been particularly important in the methodology of the social sciences and that are associated most closely with Max Weber.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (Second Edition)
Editors	James D Wright
Place of Publication	United Kingdom
Publisher	Elsevier
Chapter	213
Pages	516-520
Number of pages	5
Edition	2nd
ISBN (Print)	9780080970875
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.63031-3
Publication status	Published - 2015

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