Concept

Ideal type

Overview

social science term

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Ideal type

• Georg Simmel
• Heinrich Rickert
• Max Weber

Related ideas

• Social system
• Max Weber
• Neoclassical economics
• Abstraction
• Natural science
• Capitalism
• Phenomenon
• Economy
• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
• Moral
• Economics

Place in the tradition

Part of Fascism.

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