David Kettler, Colin Loader, and Volker Meja, Karl Mannheim and the Legacy of Max Weber: Retrieving a Research Programme
Bibliographic record
Abstract
T his book is an invaluable exercise in placing the work of Karl Mann- heim in continuity with Max and Alfred Weber's ideas and in the discontinuity of Weimar as the successor to Wilhelmine Germany.In a sentence, Mannheim's big idea was to place ideas in context and then to seek to overcome the situatedness of those ideas.This books places Mannheim's research program in context, leaving the reader to ponder over the dilemma that an intelligentsia, however ahead of the curve of trends in society, is always a thing of its time.Intelligentsia are not only defined by their ideas and a certain freedom from determinative social origins but are also subject to and, if they are not careful, victims of other political forces and ideas.Situatedness is a two-way street.In examining the social determination of other groups in society, some maverick off the radar might just run you over in his flatback truck.So, however progressive a research program is in its ideas, methods, and modes of dissemination it is probably worth ensuring that Machiavelli stays on the bookshelf.Mannheim himself was under no illusions that when ideas, power, and violence become fused no reasoned defence is possible.Mannheim was a post-1919 Hungarian emigré who prior to the war had been part of Lukács' aesthetic-philosophical circle in Budapest.His first task was to reorient his intellectual interests away from pure philosophy towards epistemology and then to the sociology of knowledge.He did this at the University of Heidelberg studying within Alfred Weber's research program; it was Alfred Weber who sponsored his habilitation (and subsequent departure to Frankfurt).Absorbing much from Alfred's sociology of culture and civilization, Mannheim undertook to learn as much as possible of Max Weber's work -in this period he had plans to write a book on the leading Wilhelmine figures: Ernst Troeltsch, Max Scheler, and Max Weber.During the war years there was growing realization among German academics that the postwar domestic settlement would be far more democratic and that the education of both
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.018 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".