Diagnosis Of Our Time V 3

by KARL MANNHEIM/COPYRIGHT OWNED;

• ISBN13: 9780415150811
• ISBN10: 0415150817
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Diagnosis of our Time	1	(11)
The Significance of the New Social Techniques	1	(3)
The Third Way: A Militant Democracy	4	(4)
The Strategic Situation	8	(4)
The Crisis in Valuation	12	(19)
Conflicting Philosophies of Life	12	(3)
Controversy About the Causes of Our Spiritual Crisis	15	(2)
Some Sociological Factors Upsetting the Process of Valuation in Modern Society	17	(9)
The Meaning of Democratic Planning in the Sphere of Valuations	26	(5)
The Problem of Youth in Modern Society	31	(23)
The Sociological Function of Youth in Society	32	(5)
The Special Function of Youth in England in The Present Situation	37	(9)
Main Conclusions	46	(8)
Education, Sociology and the Problem of Social Awareness	54	(19)
The Changing Features of Modern Educational Practice	54	(3)
Some Reasons for the Need of Sociological Integration in Education	57	(3)
The Role of Sociology in A Militant Democracy	60	(13)
Mass Education and Group Analysis	73	(22)
The Sociological Approach to Education	73	(6)
Individual Adjustment and Collective Demands	79	(7)
The Problem of Group Analysis	86	(9)
Nazi Group Strategy	95	(5)
Systematic Disorganization of Society	95	(1)
Effect on the Individual	96	(1)
The ``New Order''	97	(1)
Making the New Leaders	98	(2)
Towards a New Social Philosophy: A Challenge to Christian Thinkers by a Sociologist	100	(66)
Christianity in the Age of Planning
Christianity at the cross-roads. Will it associate itself with the ruling minorities?	100	(1)
Why the Liberal era could do without religion. The need for spiritual integration in a planned society	101	(5)
Catholicism, Protestantism and the planned democratic order	106	(3)
The meaning of religious and moral recommendations in a democratically planned order	109	(2)
The move towards an ethics in which the right patterns of behaviour are more positively stated than in the previous age	111	(2)
The tension between the private and parochial world on the one hand and the planned social order on the other	113	(1)
Ethical rules must be tested in the social context in which they are expected to work	114	(1)
Can sociology, the most secularized approach to the problems of human life, co-operate with theological thinking?	115	(2)
The concepts of Christian archetypes	117	(2)
Christian Values and the Changing Environment
The methods of historical reinterpretation. The passing and the lasting elements in the idea of Progress	119	(3)
Planning and religious experience	122	(1)
The meaning of Planning for Freedom in the case of religious experience	123	(2)
The four essential spheres of religious experience	125	(5)
The problem of genuinely archaic and of pseudo-religious experience	130	(1)
Valuation and paradigmatic experience	131	(4)
The sociological meaning of paradigmatic experience	135	(4)
Summing up. New problems	139	(4)
The emerging social pattern in its economic aspects	143	(4)
The emerging social pattern and the problem of power and social control	147	(2)
The nature of the co-operative effort that is wanted if the transition from an unplanned to a planned society is to be understood	149	(3)
Analysis of some concrete issues which are subject to re-valuation	152	(14)
General Ethics	153	(1)
The problem of survival values	153	(2)
The problem of asceticism	155	(1)
The split consciousness	156	(1)
Ethics of Personal Relationships	157	(1)
The problem of privacy in the modern world	157	(3)
The problem of mass ecstasy	160	(1)
Ethics of Organized Relationships	161	(5)
Notes	166	(8)
Index of Subjects	174	(5)
Index of Names	179