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Karl Mannheim

Karl Mannheim’s theory of sociology of knowledge explains the linkage between thought and action. Thought process is not of individual making. Rather a group having similar position develop only gradually new thoughts as differentiated from the old established thoughts when they are exposed to a certain kind of typical behaviour in a prolonged historical setting and social perspective. When the actors interact in certain social reality they organize their thought and act in a historical and social perspective.