Feasibility of the goal of sociology under its current methodology
Sociology has attained a prominent status in the modern world, due to the role it played in the analysis of contemporary social issues and events. This has attracted an increasing interest in sociology not only in the Westerns societies, but also in the Muslim world due to their desire for modern...
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Department of Usuluddin and Comparative Religion, Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University of Malaysia
2022
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/103203/2/103203_Feasibility%20of%20the%20goal%20of%20sociology%20under%20its%20current%20methodology.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/103203/ https://journals.iium.edu.my/al-itqan/index.php/al-itqan/article/view/247/144 |
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| Summary: | Sociology has attained a prominent status in the modern world, due to the role it
played in the analysis of contemporary social issues and events. This has
attracted an increasing interest in sociology not only in the Westerns societies,
but also in the Muslim world due to their desire for modernization. Therefore,
this article attempts to analyse whether sociology can attain its goal of
reorganizing society, based on scientific methods. It also analyses ethics and
morality as alternative means for the purpose, and as a source of derivation of
universal rule of human social behaviour hence, reorganization of society. This
research is theoretical and philosophical and uses a qualitative method as it
relies on the analysis of the data gathered from textual sources. Using an
analytical approach, the writers arrive at the conclusion that Sociology under its
current scientific methodology, cannot achieve its goal of reorganizing society.
This can be attributed to inadequacy of scientific method in the study of human
society, due to the unpredictability of human behaviour and variety of its
factors. The writers also suggest the adaptation of a dynamic multidimensional
method that consider variety of factors such as spiritual, physical, mental, social,
and moral which heavily influence human behaviour. |
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