On Social Structural Positions: Variations On a Theme by Karl Mannheim (1995) 1.Prologue This section is incomplete…. A crucial unresolved problem is to construct explicit typologies of emergent determinate processing potentialities and orders of life. – Other relevant unresolved issues include the bourgeois position, the nature and limitations of “craft rationality,” and the special […]
A Dream of Reason- IV Part 5 Person, Context, Action
Person, Context, Action (1984) Conformity, Improvisation and Contextual Creativity 1.1 Persons together with interpretative interpersonal contexts generate action through our co-constitutive human determinate potentialities for “conformity,” “improvisation,” and “contextual” (a.k.a. “directly reconstructive”) creativity.” 1.2 In conformity interpretative contexts program action.… Conformity rigidly follows and obeys. It enacts the given. People have “nothing of their own […]
A Dream of Reason- VI Part 6- Personal-Interpersonal Field Revisited
The Personal-Interpersonal Field Revisited (1995) 1 1.1 Sorokin argues that to actualize sociology as a science requires openness to its autonomous requirements: Many sociological empiricists still regard sociology as an alter ego of the natural sciences, particularly of the physico-chemical sciences, in its structure, method and referential principles. If the claims advanced by this school […]
A Dream of Reason V- Part 4 Embattled Reason
Embattled Reason (1985) 1.Opening Reason attacked “from the right” for questioning tradition is now attacked “from the left” as ground and support of hierarchy. Some enemies on the left attack reason from within. 1.1. Methodological Interlude Foundational exploration and secondary commentary are distinct tasks. Yet there can be fruitful dialogue between them. We proceed […]
A Dream of Reason- VI: Part 2 On Instruction (1973)
On Instruction (1973) 1. Opening 1.1. Instruction and Education 1.11 This essay belongs to the sociology-psychology of education.[1] Yet the term “education” rarely appears in it. Why? Sociology-psychology is a species of theoretical reason. Theoretical reason cannot take consensus qua consensus as its measure and standard. It would assault sociological-psychological reason to follow […]
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