Karl Mannheim quotes - page 2
Karl Mannheim was a Hungarian-born sociologist, recognized as one of the founding figures of the sociology of knowledge. His work explored how social context influences thought and ideology. He significantly shaped critical social theory and left a lasting impact on the study of ideas in society. Here are 30 of his quotes:
Here we refer to the ideology of an age or of a concrete historico-social group, e.g. of a class, when we are concerned with the characteristics and composition of the total structure of the mind of this epoch or of this group. Although they have something in common, there are also significant differences between them.
Karl Mannheim
It has become extremely questionable whether, in the flux of life, it is a genuinely worthwhile intellectual problem to seek to discover fixed and immutable ideas or absolutes. It is a more worthy intellectual task perhaps to learn to think dynamically and relationally rather than statically.
Karl Mannheim
The non-evaluative general total conception of ideology is to be found primarily in those historical investigations, where, provisionally and for the sake of the simplification of the problem, no judgments are pronounced as to the correctness of the ideas to be treated. This approach confines itself to discovering the relations between certain mental structures and the life-situations in which they exist. We must constantly ask ourselves how it comes about that a given type of social situation gives rise to a given interpretation. Thus the ideological element in human thought, viewed at this level, is always bound up with the existing life-situation of the thinker. According to this view human thought arises, and operates, not in a social vacuum but in a definite social milieu.
Karl Mannheim
Karl Mannheim
Occupation: German PhilosopherBorn: March 27, 1893
Died: January 9, 1947
Quotes count: 30
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