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Karl Mannheim was one of the most criticized social theorists of his time. Many would not even consider him a classical theorist since he never had a closed and unified theory. In 1933 he was forced out of Germany to England because of the Nazi's control at the time. Mannheim was one of the key figures in the invention of the field sociology of knowledge. The sociology of knowledge is defined as "the relationship between human thoughts and the conditions of existence in general". Mannheim wanted the Sociology of knowledge to be scientific instead of philosophical.

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