Max Weber on the Methodology of the Social Sciences.

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Popular boys, the ideal schoolboy, and blended patterns of masculinity for 10‐ to 11‐year‐olds in two London schools

“…In each interview I asked boys to name the features, or characteristics, of an 'ideal' schoolboy, someone who was a fictional character, or similar to Weber's (1949) 'ideal typology'. If such a person were to exist, what would they be like?…”

Sharing Places: Local Socio-Economic Organization and Inequality in Contemporary Short-Term Rental Markets

“…To be sure, these categories of exchange, and their described features, are idealizations and, as such, do not uniformly represent empirical reality. However, idealizations are analytically useful as "sensitizing devices" to analyze and compare empirical phenomena (Lopreato and Alston 1970;Strandbakken 2017;Weber 1949). Accordingly, I use the idealized scheme in Table 1, along with the literature described in the next section, to examine whether the similarities and differences outlined here align with patterns in empirical data on short-term rental exchanges.…”

The Sanctification of the Disabled: A Study on the Images of Fortune Gods in Japanese Folk Beliefs

“…It involves looking at an object of study in relation to another, often applied when looking for patterns of similarities and differences, explaining continuity and change. This paper mainly use the historical comparative methodology of Weber ([1949Weber ([ ] 1905. The historical comparative methodology, combines the comparison of different cases and the historical analysis of changes over time to understand and explain large-scale social phenomena.…”