The structure of collective action

pp. 158-176

in: Martin Albrow, Max Weber's construction of social theory, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1990

Abstract

One of the most important facets of Weber's argument for the necessity of ideal types in social science was his insistence that collective concepts for social life, ideas such as the state, or church organisation, ultimately always referred to the actions of individuals.