The Sociology of Philosophies

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CHAPTER 1 £ Coalitions in the Mind Intellectuals are people who produce decontextualized ideas. These ideas are meant to be true ...

state a sociological theory of very wide scope, which tells us the conditions under which symbols are generated and are felt to ...

situations as the following of rules and uses these inferred rules as a tool for constructing the rest of the world, one arrives ...

a moral community, and which create symbols that act as lenses through which members view their world, and as codes by which the ...

into a shared rhythm. As micro-coordination becomes intense, participants are temporarily united in a shared reality, and experi ...

varying degrees the qualities which generate interaction rituals. In principle, we can predict what will happen: how much solida ...

What is it about the social interactions of intellectuals that creates those abstractly decontextualized symbols which go under ...

technology has become increasingly available, and the numbers of intellectuals have increased enormously from on the order of hu ...

becoming published (if not there already). An intellectual IR is generally a situational embodiment of the texts which are the l ...

Members of the audience in intellectual rituals are in a distinctively non- passive situation. It is a deep-seated part of intel ...

rituals. This larger structure has the feel of externality; it seems thing-like, compulsory, resistant to change. This sense of ...

up with the others in cultural and emotional resources for carrying out IRs? How far is the network connected via intermediaries ...

one’s ideas are circulated widely through the conversation, and one’s personal reputation with it. The conversation of intellect ...

is someone who has produced an important discovery: the conception of Platonic Ideas, the theory of evolution, the fundamental t ...

grounding of meaningful statements soon led to difficulties in expounding and verifying its own principles. But although the con ...

273–274) which find that creative persons have a strong desire to make their own judgments; this in turn is typically related to ...

related emotional energy for intellectual networks; and there are further spe- cificities among fields, so that conditions that ...

tional energies. Reading and thinking are vicarious interaction rituals to the extent that an individual can take part in them, ...

across Germany in 1795 to meet with them. As the members of the group opened niches in the intellectual attention space, the suc ...