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social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > key people in political science > Karl Mannheim
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  • Karl Mannheim was born in Budapest, Hungary, on March 27, 1893, into a middle-class Jewish family. He received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Budapest and early in his academic career worked under the renowned Marxist György Lukács. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Theory; Mannheim, Karl]

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