Feasibility of the goal of sociology under its current methodology

• Main Authors: Laluddin, Hayatullah, Abdul Razak, Mohd. Abbas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Usuluddin and Comparative Religion, Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University of Malaysia 2022
• Subjects: B Philosophy (General); BP1 Islam; BPH Islamic Economics; H Social Sciences (General)
• 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

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.