Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-206) and index
The challenging context -- Time and place -- The social structure of advancement : education for life in the economy -- The intensive study group around Karl Mannheim -- Norbert Elias and the sociology of external forms -- Hans Gerth and Hans Weil : the genealogy of the liberal bildungselite -- Käthe Truhel and the idea of a social bureaucracy -- Natalie Halperin and Margarete Freudenthal : the genealogy of women's movements -- Jacob Katz : the sociology of the stranger I -- Nina Rubinstein : sociology of the stranger II -- Individual projects and orphans -- The unfinished business between Karl Mannheim and Max Weber