Essays Sociology Knowledge V 5

by Mannheim,Karl

• ISBN13: 9780415150835
• ISBN10: 0415150833
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Editorial Note	v
Introduction	1	(32)
Preparatory remarks	1	(1)
Influences	2	(7)
The development of the sociology of knowledge	9	(18)
Critique of Mannheim's sociology of knowledge	27	(6)
On the Interpretation of `Weltanschauung'	33	(51)
The problem outlined	33	(1)
The struggle for a synthesis	34	(3)
Rationalism v. Irrationalism	37	(6)
`Weltanschauung': its mode of presentation. The three kinds of meaning	43	(20)
The pretheoretical structure of cultural products	63	(7)
How can the global outlook be treated scientifically?	70	(14)
Historicism	84	(50)
Static and dynamic thought	84	(13)
The starting-points of a theory of historicism (Troeltsch)	97	(12)
Forms of historical movement	109	(15)
Historicism and sociology	124	(2)
Dynamic standards in thought and practice	126	(8)
The Problem of a Sociology of Knowledge	134	(57)
The problem constellation	134	(12)
Theoretical positions	146	(8)
Sociology of knowledge from the standpoint of modern phenomenology (Max Scheler)	154	(25)
Sociology of knowledge from the dynamic standpoint	179	(12)
Competition as a Cultural Phenomenon	191	(39)
On the Nature of Economic Ambition and its Significance for the Social Education of Man	230	(46)
The social education of man	230	(5)
What is `success'?	235	(2)
Objective and subjective success	237	(2)
Unstable and relatively stable forms of subjective success	239	(2)
The social structure and chances of success	241	(6)
Success in a career	247	(2)
Social sectors subject to and devoid of conflict	249	(1)
Striving for success in general	250	(7)
The striving for economic success	257	(4)
Historical flexibility of economic ambition	261	(5)
Types of ambition; types of personality; types of culture	266	(5)
Flexibility of ambition according to social differentiation	271	(5)
The Problem of Generations	276	(45)
How the problem stands at the moment	276	(10)
The sociological problem of Generations	286	(35)
Bibliography of the Problem of Generations	321	(2)
Index	323