Karl Mannheim and the legacy of Max Weber [ retrieving a research programme

Focuses on the work of Karl Mannheim by demonstrating how his theoretical conception of a reflexive sociology took shape as a collaborative empirical research program. This book shows how contemporary

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kettler, David , 1981 (Author), Loader, Colin , 1941- (Author), Meja, Volker (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ;Burlington, VT : Ashgate , c2008
Series:Rethinking classical sociology
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Online Access:NetLibrary
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The challenging context
  • 2. Time and place
  • 3. The social structure of advancement : education for life in the economy
  • 4. The intensive study group around Karl Mannheim
  • 5. Norbert Elias and the sociology of external forms
  • 6. Hans Gerth and Hans Weil : the genealogy of the liberal bildungselite
  • 7. Kathe Truhel and the idea of a social bureaucracy
  • 8. Natalie Halperin and Margarete Freudenthal : the genealogy of women's movements
  • 9. Jacob Katz : the sociology of the stranger I
  • 10. Nina Rubinstein : sociology of the stranger II
  • 11. Individual projects and orphans
  • 12. The unfinished business between Karl Mannheim and Max Weber