Ideal type in sociological research

What is ideal type? "Comparison (for example, between empirical information, between theories, between researchers) is a widely used procedure in scientific research. A specific type of comparison consists of the ideal type (original proposal of the classical sociologist Max Weber), as "A simplified and 1 schematic framework of the object of research with which systematic observation of the real [...] must be confronted", 1 through typological analyses that, with "stylization or accentuation of essential features in fact, allow for the synthesis of research acquisitions in order to extract the fundamental characteristics or to elaborate an abstract model with which the ducts can be compared".