Value-rational
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Value-rational type
The value-rational type is one of the four ideal types of action that were created by Max Weber.
Ideal types
Max Weber created this ideal types as stereotypes, simplified models of real actions of societies. Although the ideal types display the meanings which actors make sense of their actions, in reality the ideal types of action do not exist. The four ideal types of action characterize Weber's theory of man.
Value-rational type
The value-rational type, also called wertreational, is an activity that is valued in itself, which means an actor is committed to this value. In this case, not the achievement of a certain goal by best means is important but the values determinde the choice of means as well as the end (Campbell, 1981, p. 177).
References
- Campbell, T. (1981). Seven Theories of Human Society. Clarendon Press: Oxford
Contributors
- Page created by Lieke Vogels
