ISBN:
9780415075534
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (263 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Series Statement:
Routledge Classics in Sociology
Parallel Title:
Print version Essays on the Sociology of Culture
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Karl Mannheim, in this book originally published in 1956, sets out his ideas of intellectuals as producers of culture
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Essays on the Sociology of Culture; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part One: Towards The Sociology of the Mind an Introduction; I. First Approach to the Subject; 1. Hegel Reconsidered. From the Phenomenology to the Sociology of the Mind; 2. The Science of Society and the Sociology of the Mind. Difficulties of a Synthesis; 3. Tentative Nature of the Inquiry. Its Initial Objective: A Critique of the False Concepts of Society and Mind; II. The False and the Proper Concepts of History and Society; 1. The Theory of an Immanent History of Thought, and Why it Emerged
Description / Table of Contents:
Digression on Art History2. False Polarization of the Attributes 'Material' and 'Ideal'; 3. The False Concepts of History, Dialectics, and Mediacy; 4. The Mediate Character of Roles. The Social Circulation of Perceptions and Complementary Situations; 5. Towards an Adequate Concept of Society; 6. A Preliminary Outline of the Steps towards the Sociology of the Mind; 7. The Three Types of Sociology and the Corresponding Levels of the Sociology of the Mind. Structure and Causality; III. The Proper and Improper Concept of the Mind; 1. A Second Review of its Hegelian Version
Description / Table of Contents:
2. The Genesis of the Mind Concept3. The Subjective and Objective Manifestations of the Mind. The Social Genesis of Meaning; 4. The Suprapersonal Character of Meaning; 5. Critique of the Entelechy as a Conceptual Model; 6. The Explanatory and the Expository Procedure. The Structure of Events; 7. The Question whether the World Has Structure; 8. The Causal Account and the Expository Explanation Re-examined; 9. The Structural and the Random Concept of Causation. The Problem of Multiple Causation; 10. Historiography and the Structural View; 11. The Matrix of Works and of Action
Description / Table of Contents:
12. The Discovery of the Structural Relationship Between Action and WorksIV. An Outline of the Sociology of the Mind; 1. The Sociology of the Mind on the Axiomatic Level. The Ontology of the Social and its Bearing on the Historical Character of Thought; 2. The Sociology of the Mind on the Level of Comparative Typology; 3. The Sociology of the Mind on the Level of Historical Individuation; V. Recapitulation: the Sociology of the Mind Aread of Inquiry; Part Two: The Problem of the Intelligentsia an Inquiry into its Past and Present Role; 1. The Self-Discovery of Social Groups
Description / Table of Contents:
2. Outlines of a Sociological Theory of the Intelligentsia3. How Social Groups are Identified; 4. Types of Intelligentsia; 5. The Contemporary Intellectual; 6. The Historical Roles of the Intelligentsia; (a) The Social Background of Intellectuals; (b) The Affiliations of Intellectuals and Artists; (c) The Intelligentsia and the Classes; (d) The Social Habitat of Intellectuals; 7. The Natural History of the Intellectual; 8. The Contemporary Situation of the Intelligentsia; Part Three: The Democratization of Culture; I. Some Problems of Political Democracy at the Stage of its Full Development
Description / Table of Contents:
II. The Problem of Democratization as a General Cultural Phenomenon
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
