Who wrote, "Knowledge is shaped by the social world?"

A) Alexis de Tocqueville
B) Herbert Spencer
C) Karl Mannheim
D) George Hebert Mead

Karl Mannheim is credited with writing, "Knowledge is shaped by the social world." He was a Hungarian sociologist who contributed to the field of sociology of knowledge and argued that social factors such as class, culture, and historical context shape our understanding of knowledge.