This article resumes Mannheim's contribution in the construction of interpretative research methods based in the work originally written in 1921/1922 "Beiträge zur Theorie der Weltanschungsinterpretation" (Contributions for the interpretation of world view theory). The text discusses about the methodological reflections and development of a method of analysis of world views for the social sciences, called documentary method of interpretation. By bringing a methodological proposal a documentary analysis of atheorical experience, the author instigate us to rethink the process and the given treatment on the interpretation of cultural objects. In a moment in which we present the action and discourse of informations diffusion, in which the instantanity of time would annihilate the space and homogenize the culture, Mannheims's article is propositive and invite us to rethink the building of analytical instruments which can give shape and map the singularity of concrete experiences, that need a theorical analysis.
World view theory; documentary method of interpretation; Sociology of Knowledge