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Cultural sociology - or the sociology of culture - has grown from a minority interest in the 1970s to become one of the largest and most vibrant areas within sociology globally. In The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology, a global range of experts explore the theory, methodology and innovations that make up this ever-expanding field. The Handbook's 40 original chapters have been organised into five thematic sections: Theoretical Paradigms Major Methodological Perspectives Domains of Inquiry Cultural Sociology in Contexts Cultural Sociology and Other Analytical Approaches Both comprehensive and current, The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology will be an essential reference tool for both advanced students and scholars across sociology, cultural studies and media studies.
The Cultural Sociology of Alfred Weber and Karl Mannheim
The Cultural Sociology of Alfred Weber and Karl Mannheim
INTRODUCTION
In September 1928 Karl Mannheim delivered a paper on ‘Competition as a Cultural Phenomenon’ at the Sixth Congress of the German Sociologists in Zurich, Switzerland. Mannheim's paper addressed the issue of culture sociologically, anticipating the strategy of his best known work, Ideology and Utopia, which, like his Zurich paper, would be published the next year. Among those in his audience was his primary sponsor at the University of Heidelberg, Alfred Weber. Weber understood that Mannheim's paper represented a distancing from his own approach to the sociology of culture, which he had been developing in a series of writings over almost two decades. In the most recent of ...
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