Free-floating intellectuals
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Free-floating intellectuals
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Free-floating intellectuals or free-floating intelligentsia is a term from the sociology of knowledge that was used by the sociologist and philosopher Karl Mannheim in 1929, but was originally coined by the sociologist Alfred Weber. It includes the members of the intelligentsia, whose relative independence as a socially undefined class allows them to break away from the normative thinking of their environment and to act independently of social class conditions. The intellectual floats (relativel
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Ability to think independently
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-floating_intellectuals
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2024-08-03T22:00:38Z
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2024-09-08T17:57:36Z
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