Sociology of Knowledge of M. Scheler and K. Mannheim: the Comparative Analysis of the Methodologies

Abstract

Two fundamental problems of the methodology of M. Scheler and K. Mannheim are in focus of this comparative analysis: the one of the rationals of a new sociocentric thinking which is represented in the sociology of knowledge, the another of the objectivity of cognition which is connected with the fending off the threat of the relativism. Under the differences in the base presuppositions and the means of solving of these problems, nonpresumable signifi cant similarities emerge in the outlooks of two thinkers. They give reasons to change the prevalent approach to the qualifi cation theirs views based on the opposition.