MAX WEBER’S IDEAL TYPES: PATRİMONİALİSM, SULTANİSM, AND BUREAUCRACY

This study deals with Max Weber‟s improved ideal types to understand authority
and domination types. In order to understand traditional types of authorities, Weber
constructed three types of ideal types; patriarchalism, patrimonialism and
sultanism. These three traditional types of authority basically refer to personal
relations between a ruler and ruled. However, the ideal type of rational-legal
authority which Weber called Bureaucracy basically implies impersonal
relationship between a ruler and ruled. These concepts also enable us for Weber to
analyze the social institutions and origin of their differences in Western and
Eastern countries.