Dole Food Company, Inc. (NYSE: DOLE) is an American-based agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in Westlake Village, California. The company is the largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world, operating with 75,800 full-time and seasonal employees who are responsible for over 300 products in 90 countries.[5][6] Dole markets such food items as bananas, pineapples (fresh and packaged), grapes, strawberries, salads, and other fresh and frozen fruits and juices.
Dole's Chairman founded the Dole Nutrition Institute, a nutritional research and education foundation.

ideal type assumption, as recalled that Weber argued that no scientific system is ever capable of reproducing all concrete reality, nor can any conceptual apparatus ever do full justice to the infinite diversity of particular phenomena. It was known that, ‘all science involves selection as well as abstraction’ (Weber, 1949; 1968) as social scientist can easily be caught in a dilemma when he chooses his conceptual apparatus. An ideal type is an analytical construct that serves the investigator as a measuring rod to ascertain similarities as well as deviations in concrete cases. It provides the basic method for comparative study. Furthermore, being formed by “accentuation of one or more points of view and by the synthesis of a great many diffuse, discrete, more or less present and occasionally absent concrete individual phenomena, which are arranged according to those one-sidedly emphasized viewpoints into a unified analytical construct” (Heckman, 1983) as it does mean moral research ideals.



Ideal Type and Research Studies

Some of Weber's ideal types refer to collectivities rather than to the social actions of individuals, but social relationships within collectivities are always built upon the probability that component actors will engage in expected social actions. An ideal type never corresponds to concrete reality but always moves at least one step away from it. It is constructed out of certain elements of reality and forms a logically precise and coherent whole, which can never be found as such in that reality. Thus, Julien Freund reveals that, “being unreal, the ideal type has the merit of offering us a conceptual device with which we can measure real development and clarify the most important elements of empirical reality”. Ideally, “Weber's earliest involvement in empirical social research had investigations on labor conditions, workers' attitudes and work histories, using the questionnaire and direct observation technique as well as the modern statistical approach concerning psychological aspects of factory work also, critique of other person's study of workers' attitudes, he advocated a quantitative or typological approach to qualitative data” (Lazarsfeld and Oberschall, 1965 p. 185). There have been “explicit support on quantitative techniques and the meaning of social relationships is being expressed in probability, the value and the role of empirical research in sociology, from the debate as to whether sociology and psychology should be distinguished and the presence of social science as one better conceptual device, as used without such reference to empirical research” (Lazarsfeld and Oberschall, 1965 p. 185). Moreover, proponent Hekman (1983, p. 119) indicated that, “Max Weber's concept of the ideal type would seem to have fallen into neglect in contemporary social science, and have argued that Weber's concept is methodologically sound and logically consistent. Inasmuch as it offers a common basis for the analysis of subjective meaning and structural forms it may provide a corrective to what she sees as the present methodological disarray in social theory”. The literature study can be critical in terms of effective utilization of Weber’s ideal type concepts, as there might be fruitless efforts to grasp the significance of such basic tool of science through the work of Weber. “Weber then did not have such mature grasp of the class of logical devices to which the ideal type belongs for example in idealizations, which is inevitable for some research strategies which are in the sense theoretically put in a continuum. However, several idealizations had remarkably assumed real theoretical for instance, the ones found in social science are available in discipline but not being recognized as such” (Lopreato and Alston, 1970 p. 88). Indeed, in social science domain there must have “special effort to recognize theoretically inspired approach of Weber’s idealization as there helps in avoiding incorrect squabbles about additional aspects of research theories and enhance the chances of getting down to serious business of theory construction within focused sense of purpose and certain cumulative orientation” (Lopreato and Alston, 1970 p. 88).

Purpose of Ideal Type Contents

Several proponents have argued that greater reliability in social research methods are to be obtained through developing operational definitions that securely connect classificatory schemes with observable phenomena, some argument rely on definite distinction between observable and unobservable pathways that the philosophers view as one issue at hand for ideal type research so, the following purpose could be used, for situations in some disorders:

ut a topic that is not well understood by the marketer. For instance, a marketer has heard news reports about a new Internet technology that is helping competitors but the marketer is not familiar with the technology and needs to do research to learn more. When gaining insight (i.e., discovery) on an issue is the primary goal, exploratory research is used.

The basic difference between exploratory and descriptive research is the research design. Exploratory research follows a format that is less structured and more flexible than descriptive research. This approach works well when the marketer doesn’t have an understanding of the topic or the topic is new and it is hard to pinpoint the research direction. The downside, however, is that results may not be as useful in aiding a marketing decision. So why use this method? In addition to offering the marketer basic information on a topic, exploratory research may also provide direction for a more formal research effort. For instance, exploratory research may indicate who the key decision makers are in a particular market thus enabling a more structured descriptive study targeted to this group.
 
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Dole Food Company, Inc. (NYSE: DOLE) is an American-based agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in Westlake Village, California. The company is the largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world, operating with 75,800 full-time and seasonal employees who are responsible for over 300 products in 90 countries.[5][6] Dole markets such food items as bananas, pineapples (fresh and packaged), grapes, strawberries, salads, and other fresh and frozen fruits and juices.
Dole's Chairman founded the Dole Nutrition Institute, a nutritional research and education foundation.

ideal type assumption, as recalled that Weber argued that no scientific system is ever capable of reproducing all concrete reality, nor can any conceptual apparatus ever do full justice to the infinite diversity of particular phenomena. It was known that, ‘all science involves selection as well as abstraction’ (Weber, 1949; 1968) as social scientist can easily be caught in a dilemma when he chooses his conceptual apparatus. An ideal type is an analytical construct that serves the investigator as a measuring rod to ascertain similarities as well as deviations in concrete cases. It provides the basic method for comparative study. Furthermore, being formed by “accentuation of one or more points of view and by the synthesis of a great many diffuse, discrete, more or less present and occasionally absent concrete individual phenomena, which are arranged according to those one-sidedly emphasized viewpoints into a unified analytical construct” (Heckman, 1983) as it does mean moral research ideals.



Ideal Type and Research Studies

Some of Weber's ideal types refer to collectivities rather than to the social actions of individuals, but social relationships within collectivities are always built upon the probability that component actors will engage in expected social actions. An ideal type never corresponds to concrete reality but always moves at least one step away from it. It is constructed out of certain elements of reality and forms a logically precise and coherent whole, which can never be found as such in that reality. Thus, Julien Freund reveals that, “being unreal, the ideal type has the merit of offering us a conceptual device with which we can measure real development and clarify the most important elements of empirical reality”. Ideally, “Weber's earliest involvement in empirical social research had investigations on labor conditions, workers' attitudes and work histories, using the questionnaire and direct observation technique as well as the modern statistical approach concerning psychological aspects of factory work also, critique of other person's study of workers' attitudes, he advocated a quantitative or typological approach to qualitative data” (Lazarsfeld and Oberschall, 1965 p. 185). There have been “explicit support on quantitative techniques and the meaning of social relationships is being expressed in probability, the value and the role of empirical research in sociology, from the debate as to whether sociology and psychology should be distinguished and the presence of social science as one better conceptual device, as used without such reference to empirical research” (Lazarsfeld and Oberschall, 1965 p. 185). Moreover, proponent Hekman (1983, p. 119) indicated that, “Max Weber's concept of the ideal type would seem to have fallen into neglect in contemporary social science, and have argued that Weber's concept is methodologically sound and logically consistent. Inasmuch as it offers a common basis for the analysis of subjective meaning and structural forms it may provide a corrective to what she sees as the present methodological disarray in social theory”. The literature study can be critical in terms of effective utilization of Weber’s ideal type concepts, as there might be fruitless efforts to grasp the significance of such basic tool of science through the work of Weber. “Weber then did not have such mature grasp of the class of logical devices to which the ideal type belongs for example in idealizations, which is inevitable for some research strategies which are in the sense theoretically put in a continuum. However, several idealizations had remarkably assumed real theoretical for instance, the ones found in social science are available in discipline but not being recognized as such” (Lopreato and Alston, 1970 p. 88). Indeed, in social science domain there must have “special effort to recognize theoretically inspired approach of Weber’s idealization as there helps in avoiding incorrect squabbles about additional aspects of research theories and enhance the chances of getting down to serious business of theory construction within focused sense of purpose and certain cumulative orientation” (Lopreato and Alston, 1970 p. 88).

Purpose of Ideal Type Contents

Several proponents have argued that greater reliability in social research methods are to be obtained through developing operational definitions that securely connect classificatory schemes with observable phenomena, some argument rely on definite distinction between observable and unobservable pathways that the philosophers view as one issue at hand for ideal type research so, the following purpose could be used, for situations in some disorders:

ut a topic that is not well understood by the marketer. For instance, a marketer has heard news reports about a new Internet technology that is helping competitors but the marketer is not familiar with the technology and needs to do research to learn more. When gaining insight (i.e., discovery) on an issue is the primary goal, exploratory research is used.

The basic difference between exploratory and descriptive research is the research design. Exploratory research follows a format that is less structured and more flexible than descriptive research. This approach works well when the marketer doesn’t have an understanding of the topic or the topic is new and it is hard to pinpoint the research direction. The downside, however, is that results may not be as useful in aiding a marketing decision. So why use this method? In addition to offering the marketer basic information on a topic, exploratory research may also provide direction for a more formal research effort. For instance, exploratory research may indicate who the key decision makers are in a particular market thus enabling a more structured descriptive study targeted to this group.

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