ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the sociological method and the problems of truth. Science has the sole meaning and task of calling into question; by the way of concrete analysis, every unattached objectivity and the universal validity shows that truth is to be found in a particular class within a particular historical situation. It should be pointed out, that the precise of the sociological method must not accept the historical stage of existence simply as a given base and as an ultimate authority on questions of truth. Mannheim finds the truth of Marxism in precisely such a synthesis: the advantages of Marxist theory in its assimilation of the 'previous formulation of the problem', has mediated and incorporated the extreme intellectualism of the liberal bourgeois idea and the complete irrationalism of the conservative one. The historical order of life which exists at a given time is not, merely because it is historical and the ultimate authority that matters of value and the truth.
