We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
On Deformational Modeling: Max Weber's Concept of Idealization.
- Authors
Godek, Lidia
- Abstract
The article aims to reconstruct the idealization procedure understood as a deformational means of concept modeling in the theory proposed by Max Weber. The ideal type represents the basic form of the deformational transformation. Deformational modelling refers to a strategy of conscious and deliberate distortion of an object of empirical reality in varied and consequently contrafactual ways. The method essentially seeks to account for a concept by highlighting significant characteristics of the empirical content of investigated socioeconomic phenomena at the expense of their actual exemplification. The ideal type is a deformed means of representing a selected real-life phenomenon or object, oriented towards the fulfilment of specific cognitive goals while taking into account all methodological conditions involved in the process of its construction. By reference to Leszek Nowak's typology of deformational procedures, it is possible to characterize the Weberian ideal-type method as representing an example of quantitative deformation (positive potentialization).
- Subjects
CONCEPTUAL models; WEBER, Max, 1864-1920; DEFORMATION potential; HINDSIGHT bias (Psychology); IDEAL type (Sociology)
- Publication
Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences & the Humanities, 2016, Vol 108, p63
- ISSN
0303-8157
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/9789004318847_005