Essays on the sociology of culture / / by Karl Mannheim ; with a new preface by Bryan S. Turner

• Autore: Mannheim Karl <1893-1947.>
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetto topico: Culture; Popular culture
• Altri autori: TurnerBryan S
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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 ; 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 ; 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 ; 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 ; II. The Problem of Democratization as a General Cultural Phenomenon
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. In it he sets out his ideas of intellectuals as producers of culture and explores the possibilities of a democratization of culture. This new edition includes a superb new 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Essays on the sociology of culture
• ISBN: 0-415-75591-3; 1-134-90416-9; 1-280-32400-7; 0-203-20559-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910170988803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge sociology classics.