试析曼海姆知识社会学理论

曼海姆通过对现代认识论与心理学研究问题的分析,提出了以环境决定知识和群体知识决定个人知识等观点为核心的知识社会学理论。他认为以往知识理论都是政党政治的产物,而知识社会学建立的目的是为了建构一门超党派、为人类服务的纯客观的知识体系。尽管他的知识社会学理论深化了存在论向度的知识问题研究,但由于其对社会问题把握缺失总体性综合式研究思路与方法,因而显得抽象、空洞并难以实现。

On Mannheim's Sociology of Knowledge

Through analyzing modern epistemology and psychology,Mannheim created sociology of knowledge whose core views included that environment determines knowledge,group knowledge determines individual knowledge.He believed that previous theories of knowledge were the product of party politics,and sociology of knowledge was to establish a knowledge system which served for human and was non-partisan and purely objective.Since it lacks overall grasp of social issues and integrated study method,Mannheim's sociology o...