Karl Mannheim and the Legacy of Max Weber: Retrieving a Research Programme

by Kettler,David

• ISBN13: 9780754672241
• ISBN10: 0754672247
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book focuses on the important work of Karl Mannheim by demonstrating how his theoretical conception of a reflexive sociology took shape as a collaborative empirical research program. The authors' show how contemporary work along these lines, whether derived from Foucault, Bourdieu or other theorists, can benefit from the insights of Mannheim and his students into both morphology and genealogy.The book comprises three parts: the first offers a new reading of Mannheim's empirical project, with emphasis on his lifelong dialogue with Max Weber. Special attention is paid to his article on economic ambition; part two analyzes the dissertations of Mannheim's students, including studies of newspapers, women's household roles, sentimentalism in women's literature, relations between female social workers and male bureaucrats, exile, Jewish assimilation, and Liberal cultivation; the final part assesses recent receptions of Mannheim and Mannheim's topics in empirical research.The book places Mannheim's sociology of knowledge inquiries into this broader context as well as on scholarship concerning the early history of sociology more generally.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface
Preface
List of Abbreviations
About the Authors
Introduction	p. 1
The Challenging Context	p. 9
Time and Place	p. 23
The Social Structure of Advancement: Education for Life in the Economy	p. 33
The "Intensive Study Group" Around Karl Mannheim	p. 57
Norbert Elias and the Sociology of External Forms	p. 75
Hans Gerth and Hans Weil: The Genealogy of the Liberal Bildungselite	p. 85
Kathe Truhel and the Idea of a Social Bureaucracy	p. 101
Natalie Halperin and Margarete Freudenthal: The Genealogy of Women's Movements	p. 117
Jacob Katz: Sociology of the Stranger I	p. 131
Nina Rubinstein: Sociology of the Stranger II	p. 141
Individual Projects and Orphans	p. 153
The Unfinished Business Between Karl Mannheim and Max Weber	p. 187
Bibliography	p. 197
Index	p. 207
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