Kettler David, Loader Colin, Meja Volker. Karl Mannheim and the Legacy of Max Weber: Retrieving a Research Programme

London: Routledge, 2008. — 228 p. — ISBN10: 0754672247; ISBN13: 978-0754672241 — (Rethinking Classical Sociology)This book focuses on the important work of Karl Mannheim by demonstrating how his theoretical conception of a reflexive sociology took shape as a collaborative empirical research programme. The authors show how contemporary work along these lines can benefit from the insights of Mannheim and his students into both morphology and genealogy. It returns Mannheim's sociology of knowledge inquiries into the broader context of a wider project in historical and cultural sociology, whose promising development was disrupted and then partially obscured by the expulsion of Mannheim's intellectual generation. This inspired volume will appeal to sociologists concerned with the contemporary relevance of his work, and who are prepared for a fresh look at Weimar sociology and the legacy of Max Weber.The Challenging Context
Time and Place
The Social Structure of Advancement: Education for Life in the Economy
The "Intensive Study Group" Around Karl Mannheim
Norbert Elias and the Sociology of External Forms
Hans Gerth and Hans Weil: The Genealogy of the Liberal Bildungselite
Kathe Truhel and the Idea of a Social Bureaucracy
Natalie Halperin and Margarete Freudenthal: The Genealogy of Women's Movements
Jacob Katz: Sociology of the Stranger I
Nina Rubinstein: Sociology of the Stranger II
Individual Projects and Orphans
The Unfinished Business Between Karl Mannheim and Max Weber