 | Peter Hamilton - Sociologists - 1991 - 390 pages
...scientific analysis it is convenient to treat all irrational, affectually determined meaning complexes of behavior as factors of deviation from a conceptually pure type of rational action. . . . The construction of a strictly rational course of action in such cases serves the sociologist... | |
 | Peter Hamilton - Sociology - 1998 - 326 pages
...approach will find it expedient to 'treat all irrational, affectually determined elements of behaviour as factors of deviation from a conceptually pure type of rational action', though naturally this 'does not involve a belief in the actual predominance of rational elements in... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - Marxian economics - 1993 - 426 pages
...the study of subjects with the methods of objective rationality. With regard to the subject matter: "it is convenient to treat all irrational, affectually...deviation from a conceptually pure type of rational action . . . the construction of a purely rational course of action . . . serves the sociologist as a type... | |
 | Richard Swedberg - Business & Economics - 1998 - 330 pages
...studied is not rational, Weber says, one should start the analysis by constructing a rational ideal type: For the purposes of a typological scientific analysis...from a conceptually pure type of rational action. For example a panic on the stock exchange can be most conveniently analysed by attempting to determine... | |
 | Daniel W. Rossides - Social Science - 1998 - 422 pages
...that emerges from them — the kind of situation that the ideal type is designed to overcome. "For purposes of a typological scientific analysis it is...affectually determined elements of behavior as factors of deviations from a conceptually pure type of rational action."" By constructing a hypothetically rational... | |
 | Theodor W. Adorno - Social Science - 2002 - 212 pages
...Roth and C. Wittich, 2 vols, Los Angeles/London 1978. Weber writes: For the purposes of a typological analysis it is convenient to treat all irrational,...from a conceptually pure type of rational action. [...) Only in this way is it possible to assess the causal significance of irrational factors as accounting... | |
 | Stephen Turner - History - 2000 - 316 pages
...by and large rational. Weber also offers an argument for this primacy, but of a very different kind: For the purposes of a typological scientific analysis...determined elements of behavior as factors of deviation 20 Ibid., p. 19. 21 Ibid. i2 Ibid. from a conceptually pure type of rational action. For example a... | |
 | Ann Swidler - Family & Relationships - 2001 - 324 pages
...readily can we empathize with them.") Yet rational action still serves as the baseline for analysis: For the purposes of a typological scientific analysis...from a conceptually pure type of rational action. . . . Only in this way is it possible to assess the causal significance of irrational factors as accounting... | |
 | George E. McCarthy - Philosophy - 364 pages
...types are now seen as useful for the measurement of statistically average characteristics of events. "For the purposes of a typological scientific analysis...deviation from a conceptually pure type of rational action."100 In order to explain a stock market panic or political or military campaign, it is useful... | |
 | Nathan Rousseau - Psychology - 2002 - 392 pages
...and can interpret intellectually their influence on the course of action and the selection of means. For the purposes of a typological scientific analysis...from a conceptually pure type of rational action. For example a panic on the stock exchange can be most conveniently analysed by attempting to determine... | |
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For the purposes of a typological scientific analysis it is convenient to treat all irrational, affectually determined elements of behavior as factors of deviation from a conceptually pure type of rational action. 
