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A construct
that serves as a heuristic device developed for methodological
purposes in the analysis of social phenomena. An ideal type is constructed from elements
and characteristics of the phenomena under investigation but it is not intended to
correspond to all of the characteristics of any one case. An ideal type is a sort of
composite picture that all the cases of a particular phenomenon will be compared with. Max
Weber developed this technique. Examples of ideal types are: sacred society, secular
society, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft,
sect, church, and marginal man.
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