Mannheim - Systematic Sociology V 8

The Sociology of Karl Mannheim

K. Mannheim (1935) Ideology and Utopia: an Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (new edition 1991).

K. Mannheim (1940) Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner.

K. Mannheim (1943) Diagnosis of our Time: Wartime Essays of a Sociologist. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner.

K. Mannheim (1951) Freedom, Power and Democratic Planning. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

K. Mannheim (1952) Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

K. Mannheim (1953) Essays on Sociology and Social Psychology. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

K. Mannheim (1956) Essays on the Sociology of Culture. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (new edition 1992).

K. Mannheim (1957) Systematic Sociology. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

K. Mannheim and W. A. C. Stewart (1962) An Introduction to the Sociology of Education. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

K. Mannheim (1982) Structures of Thinking. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

K. Mannheim (1986) Conservatism: A Contribution to the Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Karl Mannheim

Edited by J. S. Ers and W. A. C. Stewart

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PART 1
MAN AND HIS PSYCHIC EQUIPMENT

PART 2
THE MOST ELEMENTARY SOCIAL PROCESSES

PART 3
SOCIAL INTEGRATION

PART 4
SOCIAL STABILITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE

We should like to express our gratitude to the University College of North Staffordshire for research grants awarded to us in connection with this work: to the Librarians of the College for their practical help and advice: and to Miss Mary Barraclough for her assistance in preparing the typescript of these pages.

W hen Karl Mannheim was proscribed by Hitler in 1933, like others on that first list he was at once offered academic posts in universities in different parts of the world. He came to London, and the book which follows is based on two of the courses of lectures that he gave in London: the first was given at the London School of Economics under the title Systematic Sociology, and the second elsewhere under the title Social Structure.

The first three parts of this book are based on the manuscript of Mannheim's lectures on systematic sociology, first delivered during the academic session 193435 and, in slightly modified form, during the following sessions. of this book is based on some of the lectures in a course on social structure delivered during the war years.

In editing the lectures on systematic sociology, we have considerably re-ordered the argument and rephrased the text. A number of issues were raised as parentheses by Mannheim in giving the lectures, the relationship of which to the written text would not be easy to understand. We have in places omitted these comments so that the argument of the whole could be more clearly seen. Whatever the alterations and excisions we may have made, we have attempted to maintain the structural outline, the architecture of the argument.

In of this book; several lectures dealt with what Mannheim himself called concrete issues of modern society and thus do not fit into the frame-work of his systematic sociology, and finally there are a few lectures on problems of social stability and social changesubjects which, according to the original syllabus of his lectures on systematic sociology, he wished to incorporate into his course on systematic sociology. It seems that considerations of time prevented Mannheim from analysing such problems as social control, social change, and social structure in his lectures at the London School of Economics, so that he decided to cover these problems within the framework of the other lecture course. We thought it fitting to restore Mannheim's original plan for a systematic sociology in this book and in doing this we have fulfilled a wish of Dr. Julia Mannheim.

We are grateful that Dr. Julia Mannheim allowed us the opportunity to undertake this work, and we are saddened by the thought that she did not live long enough to see it completed.

In his introductory lecture to the systematic sociology lecture course (re-printed in this book as the Introduction) Karl Mannheim claims that the various forms of the living together of men constitute the subject matter of analytical systematic sociology. This is, of course, only a preliminary definition, and a detailed study of this book shows that although an analysis of the different forms of human integration constitutes the central part of this systematic sociology, he also investigates psychological and cultural problems which may not at first sight seem directly connected with the problem of integration and with an analysis of the forms of the living together of men.

a description of the main types of social attitudes and wishes forms a bridge between the psychological and sociological sections of the book, because a wish or an attitude is a more or less established response to an environment.

In , entitled The Most Elementary Social Processes, Mannheim analyses the social forms and processes which either bring people together or isolate them from one another or even induce them to act against one another. He deals here on the one hand with the processes which lead to the various forces of social integration and on the other hand with the phenomena of differentiation and individualisation. Mannheim's interest in the human personality, as it appears to be on the one hand group-centred and on the other individualised can be clearly seen throughout these chapters.