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(1990) Max Weber's construction of social theory, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The purpose behind the development of ideal types was to assist in the description and explanation of social reality. But that reality already contained its own organising principles — which came indeed from the same source which generated ideal types, namely rationality.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-20879-1_11
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Albrow, M. (1990). The historical development of rationality, in Max Weber's construction of social theory, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 177-196.
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