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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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© 1990 Martin Albrow
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Albrow, M. (1990). The Historical Development of Rationality. In: Max Weber’s Construction of Social Theory. Contemporary Social Theory. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20879-1_11
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