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By carefully noting what is described and the comparing this to other descriptions of either the same or different phenomena while using similar sets of generalized categories, we can now agree on specific set of terms to define and hopefully understand just little better social facts. Now we can begin to establish boundaries of these categories.   These are always artificial tools to help us understand concrete reality. We can now use specific terms to define our external reality.  This set of abstractions are intellectual tools that create these categories that though they do not fit reality perfectly, they do allow us to get closer, at least close enough to arrange information in such away as to arrange to helps us understand the world all around us, at least a little better. This is why Weber describes these categories as ideal types. This the way most Sociologists and many Cultural Anthropologists do. As more extensive research is carried out many categories are improved, restored, expanded, altered,replaced, abandoned or forgotten.