Open Weltanschauung to Build a Democratic Behavior: the Actuality of Mannheim’s Thought

Authors

  • Andrea Casavecchia University of Roma 3, Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13136/isr.v6i3.141

Keywords:

Democratic Behavior, Karl Mannheim, worldviews

Abstract

This essay pieces together some key theoretical issues from Karl Mannheim’s democratic model and draws the attention to how, according to the author, democratization requires a collective cultural dimension linked to an open Weltanschauung. Subsequently, it presents the need to enhance a personal dimension for a development of a democratic behavior and shows how this latter behavior is an attempt to cope with ambiguities and limits that lead to the degeneration of democracy, in historysharp turns. In conclusion, it will argue that the concept of democratic behavior can contribute to addressing other urgent needs of past and present society.

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Published

26.09.2016

How to Cite

Casavecchia, A. (2016). Open Weltanschauung to Build a Democratic Behavior: the Actuality of Mannheim’s Thought. Italian Sociological Review, 6(3), 387. https://doi.org/10.13136/isr.v6i3.141

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Vol. 6 No. 3 (2016)

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