scholarly journals The Dialectic of Qur’an and Science: Epistemological Analysis of Thematic Qur’an Interpretation Literature in the Field of Social Sciences of Humanities

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
Anwar Mujahidin

This paper aims to analyze the results of published research from Indonesian researchers who have the theme of the thematic interpretation of the Qur’an (mawdūi) in the field of humanities. The question is how is the relationship of the Qur’an as a holy book as well as the source of Islamic sciences integrated and interconnected with the social sciences of the humanities. This research is a qualitative library research with a critical approach. The theory used is the epistemology of science and the scientific revolution, so it can be found the relationship between the Qur’an and science which are reflected in the object of research and criticism is made to make the constructive pattern of the Quran interpretation according to the epistemological framework. The results of the study show that there are three patterns of relations between the Qur’an and science. First, the Qur’an is a source of knowledge, in which the Qur’an and theories in the social sciences of the humanities are identical and in line. Second. The Qur’an is a source of universal value. The verses of the Qur’an which relate to the field of study in the social-humanities contain universal axiological values contributing to the construction of the social sciences of the humanities. Third, the Qur’an has a different perspective on an object of science, thus it contributes to build a paradigm of science. Of the three patterns, the second and third patterns can be developed as a pattern of relations between the Qur’an and science. The Qur’an is a social science-humanities paradigm. The relationship between the Quran and the social sciences of the humanities is a dialectical paradigmatic relationship, namely the dialogue between text and context and context to text.[Paper ini bertujuan menganalisis hasil penelitian yang telah terpublikasi dari para peneliti Indonesia yang memiliki topic tafsir al-Quran tematik (mawdūi`) pada  bidang Ilmu Sosial Humaniora. Pertanyaannya adalah bagaimana hubungan al-Quran sebagai kitab suci sekaligus sumber ilmu- ilmu keislaman berintegrasi dan berinterkoneksi dengan ilmu-ilmu sosial humaniora. Penelitian ini adalah jenis penelitian kualitatif kepustakaan dengan pendekatan kritis. Teori yang digunakan adalah epistemologi ilmu dan revolusi ilmu pengetahuan, sehingga dapat ditemukan pola-pola hubungan al-Quran dan sains yang tercermin dalam objek penelitian serta dilakukan kritik untuk membuat pola tafsir al-Quran yang konstruktif sesuai kerangka epistemologi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya tiga pola hubungan al-Quran dan sains. Pertama, al-Quran adalah sumber ilmu, di mana al-Quran dan teori-teori dalam ilmu sosial humaniora adalah identik dan sejalan.Kedua.Al-Quran adalah sumber nilai universal. Ayat-ayat al-Quran yang berhubungan dengan bidang kajian dalam ilmu sosial-humaniora mengandung nilai-nilai universal yang aksiologis berkontribusi terhadap konstruksi ilmu sosial humaniora. Ketiga, al-Quran memiliki cara pandang yang berbeda terhadap suatu objek sains, sehingga berkontribusi untuk membangun suatu paradigma ilmu. Dari ketiga pola tersebut, pola kedua dan ketiga dapat dikembangkan sebagai pola hubunganal-Quran dan sains. Al-Quran menjadi paradigma ilmu sosial-humaniora. Hubungan al-Quran dan ilmu-ilmu sosial humaniora adalah hubungan paradigmatik dialektik, yakni dialog antara teks ke konteks dan konteks ke teks.]

2020 ◽  
pp. 111-134
Author(s):  
Paul Thompson ◽  
Ken Plummer ◽  
Neli Demireva

This chapter focuses on the age-old debate in the social sciences about the primacy of methods and the relationship of our pioneers to one of the main ideological battles blighting disciplines such as sociology. Every researcher makes a conscious decision to adopt a qualitative or quantitative method in their social enquiry, or sometimes to even mix them both, and it would have been extremely unusual for the pioneers not to engage sometimes with the oppressive responsibility to pick a 'side'. The chapter explores the extremes in this debate, as well as less-entrenched positions that advocate a middle-ground approach.


Author(s):  
Chelsea Drent

In Inuktituk, nuna means the land. It means the rocks, rivers, mountains and the forests. Nuna is everything, and all parts of the nuna have an inua, which means a living soul. There is a special, if not sacred relationship between members of northern communities and the nuna. However, these sacred relationships are all too often glossed over, if not forgotten. In the social sciences, author John Sorenson articulates a critical argument and evocative opinions about hunting in his article; Hunting is a Part of Human Nature (John Sorenson, “Hunting is a Part of Human Nature,” Culture of Prejudice, Arguments in Critical Social Science. Eds. Judith Blackwell, Murray Smith, John Sorenson, (Canada: Broadview Press, 2003).Sorenson demonstrates that hunting is an unnatural human activity which is linked to a cultural domination over animals. However, in these statements Sorenson neglects to consider the northern hunter in Inuit communities around the world. Cultural myths, social constructions and daily activities prove that hunting animals is a core value to how many Inuit peoples relate to each other and perceive themselves in the cosmos. This is a study that examines the relationship of people, land, animals and faith in order to understand the significance of hunting within Inuit cultures.


Author(s):  
Dr. Claire Kaplaan P. Lafadchan

This paper showcases the indigenous security measures practiced in Barangay Can-eo and Barangay Talubin at Bontoc, Mountain Province. This qualitative research used interviews in gathering data that were supported with library research. This study explored on the effectiveness and contributions of the ritualistic and non-ritualistic security measures to individual safety and security of the community. It also exposes the relationship of the identified indigenous security measures to the Bontoc indigenous world view. It was found in the study that the ritualistic and non-ritualistic security measures in Barangay Can-eo and Barangay Talubin are effective and some are still being used and observed until today. The indigenous security measures are part of the relationship they have with nature, their environment and towards each other. It is a composite understanding and respect on how they deal with peace and order. It is concluded in this study that “Rituals emphasize the relationships between [Bontoc] farmers, the biophysical world, the social world and the supernatural world,” June Prill-Brett (2016, 101-111). Despite the changing dynamics of safety and security in the present time due to the sophistication of technology, education and modernity, the indigenous security measures still exist in Barangays Can-eo and Talubin because of the deep-seated respect that the people demonstrate on the rituals and non-ritualistic symbols and archetypes. The indigenous security measures reinforce community trust in relation to property and individual protection as well as community fortification.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-39
Author(s):  
Anke Klitzing

Abstract Nobel-prize winning poet Seamus Heaney is celebrated for his rich verses recalling his home in the Northern Irish countryside of County Derry. Yet while the imaginative links to nature in his poetry have already been critically explored, little attention has been paid so far to his rendering of local food and foodways. From ploughing, digging potatoes and butter-churning to picking blackberries, Heaney sketches not only the everyday activities of mid-20th century rural Ireland, but also the social dynamics of community and identity and the socio-natural symbiosis embedded in those practices. Larger questions of love, life and death also infiltrate the scenes, as they might in life, through hints of sectarian divisions and memories of famine. This essay proposes a gastrocritical reading of Heaney’s poetry to study these topics in particularly meaningful ways. Gastrocriticism is a nascent critical approach to literature that applies the insights gained in Food Studies to literary writings, investigating the relationship of humans to each other and to nature as played out through the prism of food, or as Heaney wrote: “Things looming large and at the same time [...] pinned down in the smallest detail.”


2020 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 03007
Author(s):  
Maruta Pranka

The article focuses on walk-and-talk interviews, which are yet a little-used research method in Latvia. The term is used in the social sciences and humanities and is an appropriate method for gathering data in order to determine the relationship of an individual or a social group with a specific place. The method in a pilot project was used to listen to life experiences in Tūja, a village along the Baltic coast in Latvia. The study focused on social change in Tūja and the influence of the economic and political changes of the 1990s on the living conditions and lifestyle of the local inhabitants. The pilot project was conducted by the researchers from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of University of Latvia.


2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Author(s):  
Axel Klein

[First paragraph]Drug policy in the Caribbean region provides a testing ground for one of the key themes in the social sciences over recent years, the relationship of knowledge and power. Acting as intermediary between northern donors and the microstates of the region, the organization - United Nations International Control Programme (UNDCP) - applies the models framed by northern expertise even when local experience suggests they are inappropriate. Instead of adapting, in the light of new evidence, the organization mobilizes its resources on stifling dissent.


2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyne Porcher ◽  
Tiphaine Schmitt

Abstract Despite the interest that sociologists, especially in the English-speaking world, show in animals and human-animal relations, we know little about the place that animals actually have in work. The social sciences still see work as a distinctive feature of humans. Based on the hypothesis that animals are actors involved in the process of work, and not simply objects, the relationship of a herd of 60 cows was studied (a) with their farmer, (b) among themselves, and (c) with a milking robot. Our findings show that cows do collaborate in the farmer’s work, and our results raise the question: can cows’ collaboration in work be considered work?


2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
KAREN FERNANDA DA SILVA BORTOLOTI

<p class="Default"><strong>Resumo: </strong>O presente trabalho examina as ideias do educador baiano Anísio Spínola Teixeira entre os anos 1946 e 1960, focalizando as suas concepções acerca das Ciências Sociais, que estiveram presentes nas propostas e práticas do movimento de renovação educacional. Tendo por pressuposto que o pensamento e as realizações de Teixeira devem ser compreendidos dentro do contexto, o trabalho considera a relação do movimento renovador com as ciências sociais. O referencial metodológico empregado adota o princípio de que Teixeira procede a uma apropriação das Ciências Sociais, recontextualizando conceitos e enunciados. O trabalho evidencia Teixeira pensando a educação a partir das Ciências Sociais, compreendendo as exigências da sociedade e as peculiaridades do indivíduo, rompendo a dicotomia entre o particular e o coletivo.</p><p class="Default"><strong>Palavras-chave: </strong>Anísio Teixeira; Ciências Sociais; Escola Nova.</p><p class="Default"> </p><p class="Default"><strong>Abstract: </strong>This paper examines the ideas and actions of Anísio Spinola Teixeira, an educator from Bahia State, between the years 1946 and 1960, focusing on his conceptions of the social sciences, which were significantly present in the proposals and practices of the movement of the Brazilian educational renewal. Taking for granted that the thinking and accomplishments of Teixeira should be understood in the context in which they were developed, the work considers the relationship of the renewal movement in the social sciences. The methodological framework employed adopts the principle that Teixeira held an appropriation of knowledge of Social Sciences, recontextualizing concepts and statements under the situation in which it is situated. This work shows Teixeira thinking education from the references of Social Sciences to formulate a global view of man, including the demands of society and the peculiarities of the individual, breaking the dichotomy between the individual and the collective.</p><p class="Default"><strong>Keywords: </strong>Anísio Teixeira; Social Sciences; New School.</p>


Legal Studies ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. Harris

There is no agreed definition of socio-legal studies: some use the term broadly to cover the study of law in its social context, but I prefer to use it to refer to the study of the law and legal institutions from the perspectives of the social sciences (viz all the social sciences – not only sociology). The last decade has seen many developments in this enterprise. Many younger academic lawyers became dissatisfied with the traditional type of legal scholarship, which concentrated on the internal consistency of the law and the inter-relationship of different legal rules. They showed great interest in studying the realities of the law in action, the social effects of law and the relationship of law to wider questions of social structure, and naturally turned to the social sciences for assistance.


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