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He felt that humans should try to fully understand behavior by understanding the unspoken meanings that are attached to different behaviors. He used the German word for "understanding," verstehen for this. To help in understanding behavior, Weber introduced the concept of ideal types. "An ideal type is formed by the one-sided accentuation of one or more points of view and by the synthesis of a great many diffuse, discrete, more or less present and occasionally absent concrete individual phenomena, which are arranged according to those one-sidedly emphasized viewpoints into a unified analytical construct?In its conceptual purity, this mental construct?cannot be found empirically anywhere in reality" (Weber 2006, 116)...
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To help in understanding behavior, Weber introduced the concept of ideal types. "An ideal type is formed by the one-sided accentuation of one or more points of view and by the synthesis of a great many diffuse, discrete, more or less present and occasionally absent concrete individual phenomena, which are arranged according to those one-sidedly emphasized viewpoints into a unified analytical construct?In its conceptual purity, this mental construct?cannot be found empirically anywhere in reality" (Weber 2006, 116)...
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