In popular culture. 1  The first biography of Lorraine, Lillian Lorraine: The Life and Times of a Ziegfeld Diva by Nils Hanson was published in October 2011 by McFarland Press. 2  Lorraine was portrayed by Valerie Perrine in the 1978 film, Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women (Columbia Pictures).
Ideal type. Written By: Ideal type, a common mental construct in the social sciences derived from observable reality although not conforming to it in detail because of deliberate simplification and exaggeration. It is not ideal in the sense that it is excellent, nor is it an average; it is, rather, a constructed ideal used to approximate reality by selecting and accentuating certain elements. 1  The concept of the ideal type was developed by German sociologist Max Weber, who used it as an analytic tool for his historical studies.
The most important of such conceptual tool is the ideal type. Definition and Meaning : According to New Websters Dictionary âIdealâ is a âconception or a standard of something in its highest perfection.â It refers to mental image or conception rather than a material object. It is a model.