ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that the very core of significant sociology must lie in the comparative study of social structure. Max Weber says, the term 'social' which seems to have a quite general meaning, turns out to have, as soon as one carefully examines its application, a particular specifically coloured, though often indefinite meaning. Weber's comparative and historical sociological concepts are that the importance of his argument is regarded as being invalidated by being dependent on the positions which he took up in the controversy with Wilhelm Dilthey. The problem of ideal types is discussed in the work of Max Weber. The aim of the sociologist is to give a structural account of types of social structure and types of social institution. The basic problems which must be faced at the outset of any systematic discussion of sociology are epistemological and theoretical ones.
