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Reading notes from The Economy and the People, per p. 117
- Mannheim
- Sociology of Intellectuals
- intellectual
- Religious Organizing - scholasticism
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By the decline of church power
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Worldview is a political weapon. - propaganda
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Birth of Social Science
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Political Ties
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Schumpeter. “Sociology of Intellectuals” in “Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy”
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Intellectuals are born of capitalist success.
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When the church power was strong, there were disadvantages to expressing heretical opinions
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capitalism, guarantee of personal freedom, free speech, freedom of the press
- Birth of [mass media
- The birth of a job supplying a world view to the masses through mass media
- Germany in the first half of the 19th century, when Liszt was there, was in this state.
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Incentives to criticize
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Rising educational standards
- Because it’s needed for large scale industry.
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Raising educational standards goes from a means to an end.
- Going too far results in highly educated unemployed.
- Roussantism about not getting the treatment they deserve for their education.
- erupt in the form of seemingly rational social criticism.
- Groups of intellectuals become hostile to capitalist society.
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Influencing politics as a secretary or advisor to politicians
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scholastic dogma
- Todd: “Pure economics often resembles this scholasticism because of its preference for axioms divorced from reality.”
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