社会化と個性

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According to Karl Mannheim, we are all moving in the same direction towards a kind of planned society, and the question is whether it will be a good sort of planning or a bad one; for planning with dictatorship or on the basis of democratic control will emerge. In the four Oxford lectures on 'Planned Society and the Problem of Human Personality' which Mannheim delivered in 1938, the central problem is the freedom, spontaneity and self-realization of the individual. The argument he presents may be summarized as follows: There is the possibility of a gradual redefinition of the meaning of planning, so that the word is not associated with conformity but with co-ordinotion in the sense of harmonizing the instruments of social technique, in short, of meaning by planning, planning for freedom. True liberalism in our collective age must act as a supplement, suggesting every type of planning and social technique which is likely to foster individuality, and must not obtain order at the cost of freedom. Planning in this sense means planning for freedom. It does not mean prescribing a definite form which individuality must take, but having both the knowledge and experience to decide what kind of education, what kind of social groups and what kind of situations afford the best chance of kindling initiative.
東京女子大学の論文
1957-03-20