ABSTRACT
A related theme, familiar from Mannheim's 1922 article, is the necessity of bridging the gulf between university science and everyday life. This continues to be an important part of his pedagogical philosophy during his Frankfurt period and after. The incorporation of journalistic science into the curriculum of the university advances the widely noted process of bringing science closer to life. The example of sociology shows us clearly how it was possible to deepen a modern spiritual attitude, which unquestionably had something flat and trivial about it in its American manifestation. Philosophy of life and the sociology of public opinion, thus, both address one and the same object, the same sphere of being. The analysis of the structure of public opinion is simultaneously a philosophical, historical, sociological and journalistic phenomenon. The investigation of its problems effectuates the reciprocal penetration of practice and university science that we called for just now in merely programmatic terms.
