Karl Mannheim, Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (born 1893)

Karl Mannheim

Hungarian sociologist (1893–1947)

Karl Mannheim was a Hungarian sociologist and a key figure in classical sociology as well as one of the founders of the sociology of knowledge. Mannheim is best known for his book Ideology and Utopia (1929/1936), in which he distinguishes between partial and total ideologies,…