scholarly journals Cognitive Integration in the Social Sciences Between the Islamic Approach and Positivism: An Analytical Critical Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (28) ◽  
pp. 3-34
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cognitive Integration ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Critical Social Analysis of Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-37
Author(s):  
Felipe Ziotti Narita ◽  
Jeremiah Morelock
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Critical Social

In this article, we offer a critical social analysis of crisis in light of capitalist development and, above all, in the post-2008 world. We discuss five approaches in the social sciences that deal with the problem of crisis and develop some theore­tical lines for a critical approach to the theme. We argue that precarity can be an important topic for grasping the current crises via critical approaches. The text also presents the six articles that are part of the issue we edited for Praktyka Teoretyczna entitled “Latency of the crisis.”

The force of prescriptions

1984 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 685-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friedrich Kratochwil
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Issue Area ◽  
The Social

How do norms influence choices in social life? Conceptual distinctions among types of norms and suggestions in the work of Hobbes, Hume, and Durkheim help us investigate in greater detail the “woolly” concept of regimes in international relations. When we disaggregate the “set of explicit and implicit norms, rules, and decisionmaking procedures” in a given issue area and focus on the conceptual links between rules, principles (norms), and actions, we gain an understanding of the role of norms in social life that is more comprehensive than the understanding provided by traditional accounts. Furthermore, placing the present regime discussion within wider philosophical traditions enables us to develop a more critical approach to the building of theory in the social sciences, since the use of norms as explanatory devices challenges the predominant positivist outlook in several important respects.

scholarly journals Public Sociology and Participatory Approaches. Towards a Democratization of Social Research?

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 152-172
Author(s):  
Silvia Cataldi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Participatory Approaches ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

The subject of participation has been gathering increasing interest from the various social disciplines: from politology to psychology, from urban sociology to evaluation, this concept carries a particular fascination and discussing participatory research has now become an absolute must. However, an adequate reflection on methodologies for analyzing research practices and evaluating hypotheses and effects when setting up actual research relationships has not followed on the tail of this new tendency. This paper arises from that need and aims, through discussion of the main debates that have interested science and sociology, to reevaluate a critical approach towards the analysis of the social relationships that are created during a research investigation. This study starts out as a reflection aimed at analyzing the impact that participation, in all its various forms, can have on the way research is carried out. The originality of this article lies in the proposal of a form of participation, and from this, the expression of a hope for the future of social sciences: that we can aspire towards a dialogical model and towards a new cooperative and emancipatory relationship with the public.

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
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Epistemology Of Science ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Epistemological Analysis ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Published Research ◽  
Epistemological Framework

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.]

scholarly journals EDITORIAL

1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. v-viii
Author(s):  
Sayyid M. Syeed
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
New Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Science Framework

This is the tenth year of the existence of AJISS. Starting from a publicationschedule of twice a year in 1984 to three times a year in 1989, itbecame a desk-topped quarterly in 1993. In 1992, due to increased demand,we began printing AJISS simultaneously in Washington, DC, andMalaysia. This year, it will also be published in Pakistan as well as translatedinto Turkish in Turkey, in shii. Allah. We are grateful to AlmightyAllah for our widespread readership and for the contributions sent fromaround the globe.In this issue, we feature two articles on various theoretical aspects ofthe Islamization of knowledge. The first one, by Ibrahim A. Ragab, discussestheory building in the Islamic social sciences. He argues for an alternativesocial science framework based on the Islamization paradigm,which he asserts could integrate both empirical and nonempirical elementsof behavior into a united system of explanation. Exploring the possibilityof using knowledge derived from revelation as a major source in the processof theory building, he encourages Muslim social scientists to drawupon the rich insights derived from the transcendental sources, but onlyafter subjecting the resulting propositions to stringent verification. Ragabassures us that this new model rejects unwanted dogmatism, unwarrantedexclusiveness, and a parochiality that shuns anything that comes by wayof non-Muslims. Muslim social scientists, he opines, will have to reorienttheir critical approach to their disciplines and also acquire a better understandingof the religious sciences: revealed knowledge. This would ensurea Muslim contribution in the social sciences, a contribution that disappearedduring centuries of stagnation in the Islamic ummah.In the second paper, Louay Safi examines the progress of the Islamizationof knowledge project over the last decade. He outlines the generalframework, analyzes the work of its proponents and critics (al Faruqi, alBuff, Rahman, 'AbuSulayman, Arif, Umziyan, Abul-Fadl), and proposesmodifications aimed at overcoming the difficulties inherent in the originalplan. Safi makes it clear at the outset that even though the production of ...

Collingwood and the Relation between Theory, Practice and Values in Historical Thinking

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-166
Author(s):  
Christopher Rolliston
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Historical Thinking ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Apparent Contrast ◽  
The Social

AbstractIn texts such as An Autobiography, Collingwood asserts that historical thinking as he understood it effects a "rapprochement" between theory and practice or even a "negation" of this traditional distinction, a thesis that would seem to place him on the opposite side of the debate about the place of values in historical research to figures such as Max Weber, who famously argued for history and the social sciences being "value free" disciplines. This article then investigates this apparent contrast, taking a critical approach to the arguments Collingwood propounds on the topic across a range of his later writings. After noting the curiously limited nature of these arguments however, Collingwood's self-styled "historical" conception of duty is discussed to show that in fact, his position on the place of values in historical research was indistinguishable to Weber's, since at the centre of both is the doctrine that judgements about what to do can never be simply deduced from scholarly study, but instead must be willed in practice itself.

A critical approach to Hannah Arendt’s concept of worldliness and its applicability in the social sciences

Human Affairs ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noelia Bueno Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Virtual Networks ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Political World ◽  
The Social

AbstractThis article will explain and critically examine Hannah Arendt’s concept of worldliness with the aim of clarifying its limitations when it is used in the context of the social sciences, particularly where understanding and contributing to solving the problem of the forced displacement of people are concerned. Arendt defines “worldliness” as “having a world” in the double sense of having a tangible world of references and a political world. Her ideas regarding the worldliness of tribes and stateless people will be discussed and criticized, together with her avoidance of considering the relevance of oral history and oral resources and her position on human rights. Finally, this article proposes that social scientists require a broader conception of worldliness, in which intangible resources like shared oral narratives, virtual networks or shared views of the homeland are not dismissed, and can even serve as a basis for fighting for political and social rights.

Toward a glocal theory for Iranian social sciences

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 201-212
Author(s):  
Nasser Fakouhi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
The South ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
The Social

In this essay, I describe a perspective of what we may call a ‘Southern Theory’ in Iran. Historical and contemporary conditions in Iran have mediated against the development of such a theory, yet could, if reflexively approached, produce a glocal theory. In exploring the issue via Iran, I note the necessity of emphasizing the diversity of thought encompassed by the Southern Theory, and of considering the different time/spaces of the South. The essay has a critical approach regarding current social and scientific relations in and out of Iran in the social sciences in general, and particularly in anthropology. In this way, I try to rethink the question of English as a scientific lingua franca, considering the short and long consequences of such an approach.

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