biography
pronunciation:
[manhiym]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1893–1947)
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| biography:
| Sociologist, born in Budapest, Hungary. He studied at Budapest and Strasbourg, became a lecturer at Heidelberg (1925), and was appointed professor of sociology and political economy at Frankfurt (1930). He fled to England (1933), where he joined the London School of Economics, and in 1945 became professor of sociology and philosophy of education at the London University Institute of Education. He is known primarily for his contribution to the sociology of knowledge, of which he was one of the founders. |
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