Essays Sociology Knowledge V 5,9780415150835

Essays Sociology Knowledge V 5

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415150835
ISBN10: 0415150833
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-01-26
Publisher(s): Routledge
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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

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