Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part 1 Towards the Sociology of the Mind; an Introduction
I First Approach to the Subject 15
1 Hegel Reconsidered. From the Phenomenology to the Sociology of the Mind 15
2 The Science of Society and the Sociology of the Mind. Difficulties of a Synthesis 17
3 Tentative Nature of the Inquiry. Its Initial Objective: A Critique of the False Concepts of Society and Mind 23
II The False and the Proper Concepts of History and Society 25
1 The Theory of an Immanent History of Thought, and Why it Emerged 25
Digression on Art History 32
2 False Polarization of the Attributes 'Material' and 'Ideal' 33
3 The False Concepts of History, Dialectics, and Mediacy 36
4 The Mediate Character of Roles. The Social Circulation of Perceptions and Complementary Situations 44
5 Towards an Adequate Concept of Society 51
6 A Preliminary Outline of the Steps towards the Sociology of the Mind 53
7 The Three Types of Sociology and the Corresponding Levels of the Sociology of the Mind. Structure and Causality 55
III The Proper and Improper Concept of the Mind 59
1 A Second Review of its Hegelian Version 59
2 The Genesis of the Mind Concept 60
3 The Subjective and Objective Manifestations of the Mind. The Social Genesis of Meaning 64
4 The Suprapersonal Character of Meaning 68
5 Critique of the Entelechy as a Conceptual Model 69
6 The Explanatory and the Expository Procedure. The Structure of Events 71
7 The Question whether the World Has Structure 74
8 The Causal Account and the Expository Explanation Re-examined 75
9 The Structural and the Random Concept of Causation. The Problem of Multiple Causation 77
10 Historiography and the Structural View 79
11 The Matrix of Works and of Action 80
12 The Discovery of the Structural Relationship Between Action and Works 81
IV An Outline of the Sociology of the Mind 82
1 The Sociology of the Mind on the Axiomatic Level. The Ontology of the Social and its Bearing on the Historical Character of Thought 83
2 The Sociology of the Mind on the Level of Comparative Typology 86
3 The Sociology or the Mind on the Level of Historical Individuation 87
V Recapitulation: the Sociology of the Mind as an Area of Inquiry
Part 2 The Problem of the Intelligentsia. An Inquiry into its Past and Present Role
1 The Self-Discovery of Social Groups 91
2 Outlines of a Sociological Theory of the Intelligentsia 101
3 How Social Groups are Identified 106
4 Types of Intelligentsia 111
5 The Contemporary Intellectual 115
6 The Historical Roles of the Intelligentsia 121
a The Social Background of Intellectuals
b The Affiliations of Intellectuals and Artists
c The Intelligentsia and the Classes
d The Social Habitat of Intellectuals
7 The Natural History of the Intellectual 159
8 The Contemporary Situation of the Intelligentsia 166
Part 3 The Democratization of Culture
I Some Problems of Political Democracy at the Stage of its Full Development 171
II The Problem of Democratization as a General Cultural Phenomenon 174
A The Three Fundamental Principles of Democracy 174
B The Principle of the Ontological Equality of All Men 180
C The Autonomy of the Social Units 588
D Democratic Elites and their Mode of Selection 200
a Elite Selection and Democracy
b Group Structure and Relation to Other Croups
c The Self-Evaluation of Aristocratic and Democratic Elites
d Social Distance and the Democratization of Culture
e The Cultural Ideals of Aristocratic and Democratic Groups
E The Problem of Ecstasy 239
Index 247
