I read with passion Karl Mannheim’s books on "Ideology and Utopia" and "Freedom, Power and Democratic Planning." The seduction of ‘great theories’ did not preclude me from looking for empirical community studies and the functionalist method prescribed by Parsons and Merton. I was also influenced by authors dedicated to understanding the basis for social interactions, including their constituent moral or value dimensions. Great theoretical construction based on systemic or purely structural analysis, without the dynamics of human interaction, hide more than they reveal. In dialogue with Weber, Tonnies insisted that without human will no action is possible.
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