New ideas for the reconstruction of social sciences based on the sources of Islamic thought
Erfan Goleyni Hasanipor; Ebrahim Rastiyan
Abstract
ccording to many fundamental issues of social sciences, which have arisen around the construction - reality dichotomy, we see a wide range of theories about the nature of social structure. On the one hand, realists such as Durkheim consider the social structure as an objective reality that dominates ...
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ccording to many fundamental issues of social sciences, which have arisen around the construction - reality dichotomy, we see a wide range of theories about the nature of social structure. On the one hand, realists such as Durkheim consider the social structure as an objective reality that dominates human agency, which must be discovered under certain criteria. On the other hand, constructionists like Berger and Luckman considered the social structure to be a social construction that humans have created according to their own contract. In the research tradition of Islamic philosophy, M.H Tabatabaei has also presented a theory titled "Etebarian " to understand the nature of the social structure, which explains this issue despite the emphasis on the validity (neither discovery nor construction). In the current research, based on the analytical - descriptive method, we will first explain the epistemological foundations of Durkheim's view, as the most prominent representative of realism, and the view of Berger and Luckman, as the most prominent representatives of constructivism. In the end, by using the comparative approach and benefiting from the capacity of Tabatabaei's theory of Etebarian, we will show that social structures are post-social credits that during a gradual process and by determining a certain range of roles and social relations, controls and manages the actions of human agencies in the direction of their desired goals and ends.
