ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates Leopold von Wiese's classificatory project and the clash between the professions of his rigorous adherence to Max Weber's principles of value-free social science and the logic of rhetorical performance, which leads Leopold von Wiese to several revealing political evaluations. The detailed explanation of the program for domestic political education was laid down not by Jackh but by Albert Salomon, a Heidelberg comrade of Georg Lukacs and Emil Lederer and later a friend of Karl Mannheim. The aspects of sociology that Leopold von Wiese finds most problematic, even where he grants them some conditional justification-historical, cultural, and problem-oriented sociology-thus belong together for Karl Mannheim. Social democratization is the single most important feature of the social situation. Sociological education must penetrate the mass of citizens if the democracy of understanding is not to be displaced by a riotous democracy of feeling.
