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Karl Mannheim

1893 - 1947

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Karl Mannheim (born Károly Manheim, 27 March 1893 – 9 January 1947) 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, the latter representing comprehensive worldviews distinctive to particular social groups, and also between ideologies that provide support for existing social arrangements, and utopias, which look to the future and propose a transformation of society. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Mannheim is the 13th most popular sociologist (up from 16th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Hungary (down from 65th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Sociologist.

Karl Mannheim was a sociologist who focused on the relationship between sociology and the individual. He is most famous for his idea of the "sociological imagination."

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Karl Mannheim ranks 13 out of 79. Before him are Georg Simmel, Erving Goffman, Talcott Parsons, Marcel Mauss, Norbert Elias, and Ulrich Beck. After him are Immanuel Wallerstein, Niklas Luhmann, Gabriel Tarde, Manuel Castells, Seymour Martin Lipset, and Pitirim Sorokin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Karl Mannheim ranks 24. Before him are Albert Szent-Györgyi, Lazar Kaganovich, Roland Freisler, Chaim Soutine, Harold Lloyd, and Harold Urey. After him are Paramahansa Yogananda, Palmiro Togliatti, Walter Baade, Prajadhipok, George Grosz, and Damdin Sükhbaatar. Among people deceased in 1947, Karl Mannheim ranks 24. Before him are Frances Cleveland, Halford Mackinder, Anton Denikin, Ettore Bugatti, Aung San, and Han van Meegeren. After him are Ernst Lubitsch, Nicholas Roerich, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, G. H. Hardy, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, and Stanley Baldwin.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Karl Mannheim ranks 72 out of 1,077. Before him are Georg von Békésy (1899), Ladislaus IV of Hungary (1262), Arthur Koestler (1905), Marcel Breuer (1902), Emeric Thököly (1657), and Elizabeth of Luxembourg (1409). After him are Géza II of Hungary (1130), Katalin Karikó (1955), Béla II of Hungary (1108), Elizabeth of Bosnia (1340), Stephen II of Hungary (1101), and Andrew I of Hungary (1010).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Hungary

Among sociologists born in Hungary, Karl Mannheim ranks 1. 

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