Essays on the Sociology of Culture,9780415075534

Essays on the Sociology of Culture

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415075534
ISBN10: 041507553X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1992-03-26
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Karl Mannheim was one of the leading sociologists of the twentieth century.Essays on the Sociology of Culture, originally published in 1956, was one of his most important books. The collection of essays is centered around two important questions: what is the relationship between the organization of intellectuals and the ideas which they produce, and given the development of a democratic ethos in society, what form would the democratization of culture assume? These two questions continue to be central to the humanities and social sciences, and therefore Mannheim's contribution remains a fascinating input to contemporary debate. This second edition includes a superb preface by Bryan Turner which sets Mannheim's study in the appropriate historical and intellectual context, and explains why his thought on culture remains essential for students engaged in debates about mass culture, the politics of culture and postmodernity.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(14)
PART ONE TOWARDS THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE MIND; AN INTRODUCTION
First Approach to the Subject
15(10)
Hegel Reconsidered. From the Phenomenology to the Sociology of the Mind
15(2)
The Science of Society and the Sociology of the Mind. Difficulties of a Synthesis
17(6)
Tentative Nature of the Inquiry. Its Initial Objective: A Critique of the False Concepts of Society and Mind
23(2)
The False and the Proper Concepts of History and Society
25(34)
The Theory of an Immanent History of Thought, and Why it Emerged
25(8)
Digression on Art History
32(1)
False Polarization of the Attributes `Material' and `Ideal'
33(3)
The False Concepts of History, Dialectics, and Mediacy
36(8)
The Mediate Character of Roles. The Social Circulation of Perceptions and Complementary Situations
44(7)
Towards an Adequate Concept of Society
51(2)
A Preliminary Outline of the Steps towards the Sociology of the Mind
53(2)
The Three Types of Sociology and the Corresponding Levels of the Sociology of the Mind. Structure and Causality
55(4)
The Proper and Improper Concept of the Mind
59(23)
A Second Review of its Hegelian Version
59(1)
The Genesis of the Mind Concept
60(4)
The Subjective and Objective Manifestations of the Mind. The Social Genesis of Meaning
64(4)
The Suprapersonal Character of Meaning
68(1)
Critique of the Entelechy as a Conceptual Model
69(2)
The Explanatory and the Expository Procedure. The Structure of Events
71(3)
The Question whether the World Has Structure
74(1)
The Causal Account and the Expository Explanation Re-examined
75(2)
The Structural and the Random Concept of Causation. The Problem of Multiple Causation
77(2)
Historiography and the Structural View
79(1)
The Matrix of Works and of Action
80(1)
The Discovery of the Structural Relationship Between Action and Works
81(1)
An Outline of the Sociology of the Mind
82(6)
The Sociology of the Mind on the Axiomatic Level. The Ontology of the Social and its Bearing on the Historical Character of Thought
83(3)
The Sociology of the Mind on the Level of Comparative Typology
86(1)
The Sociology of the Mind on the Level of Historical Individuation
87(1)
Recapitutation: the Sociology of the Mind as an Area of Inquiry
88(83)
PART TWO THE PROBLEM OF THE INTELLIGENTSIA. AN INQUIRY INTO ITS PAST AND PRESENT ROLE
The Self-Discovery of Social Groups
91(10)
Outlines of a Sociological Theory of the Intelligentsia
101(5)
How Social Groups are Identified
106(5)
Types of Intelligentsia
111(4)
The Contemporary Intellectual
115(6)
The Historical Roles of the Intelligentsia
121(38)
The Social Background of Intellectuals
The Affiliations of Intellectuals and Artists
The Intelligentsia and the Classes
The Social Habitat of Intellectuals
The Natural History of the Intellectual
159(7)
The Contemporary Situation of the Intelligentsia
166(5)
PART THREE THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF CULTURE
Some Problems of Political Democracy at the Stage of its Full Development
171(3)
The Problem of Democratization as a General Cultural Phenomenon
174(73)
The Three Fundamental Principles of Democracy
174(6)
The Principle of the Ontological Equality of All Men
180(8)
The Autonomy of the Social Units
188(12)
Democratic Elites and their Mode of Selection
200(39)
Elite Selection and Democracy
Group Structure and Relation to Other Groups
The Self-Evaluation of Aristocratic and Democratic Elites
Social Distance and the Democratization of Culture
The Cultural Ideals of Aristocratic and Democratic Groups
The Problem of Ecstasy
239(8)
Index 247

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