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Max Weber (5743 words) |
 | The doctrine of Interpretative Sociology is as well-known as it is controversial and debated. |
 | This apparatus Weber identified as the "Ideal Type". |
 | The idea can be summarised as follows: an ideal type is formed from characteristics and elements of the given phenomena but it is not meant to correspond to all of the characteristics of any one particular case. |
| Bureaucracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2092 words) |
 | In the historical transition from primitive egalitarian communities to a civil society divided into social classes and estates, occurring from about 10,000 years ago, authority is increasingly centralised in, and enforced by a state apparatus existing separately from society. |
 | Max Weber has probably been one of the most influential users of the word in its social science sense. |
 | He is well-known for his study of bureaucratization of society; many aspects of modern public administration go back to him; a classic, hierarchically organized civil service of the continental type is—if basically mistakenly—called "Weberian civil service". |