The four ideal types of social action that Weber identified were as follows: instrumentally-rational, value-rational, traditional, and…

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affectual  Weber said that social action could be understood in terms of ‘ideal types’. These were analytical tools that help us to identify the key features of phenomena, although they were of course value-relevant rather than objective. Ideal typical forms were abstractions that did not occur in reality, but it was possible to find variations of them in the social world. As an example of this, Weber identified four ideal types of social action: instrumentally-rational, value-rational, traditional, and affectual action. The latter was defined as action that directly expresses an emotion, without reference to goals or values. 40-41

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