Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Alternative Sociology: Probing into the Sociological Thought of Allama Muhammad Taqi Jafari

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Foreword
• Prologue
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Relocating Scientific Rationality in Humanities
• Science in Retrospection
• Schools of Sociology
• Positivistic Sociology
• Theoretical Sociology
• Disciplinary Turns and Intelligible Approach
• Chapter 2: Human Sciences and Being 
• Normativity versus Descriptivity
• Geisteswissenschaften and the Intelligible Model
• Human Being and the Myth of Creation
• The Scientific Inquiry and The Concept of Human Being
• Chapter 3: The Perils of Reductionism  
• Compartmentalization of Mind
• The Perils of Reductionism
• Unidimensionality and Human Personality
• Rationalization and the Question of Religare
• Lebenswelt and Kommunkationstechnik
• Modern Disciplinary Rationality
• Lebensphilosophie and Human Predicament
• Chapter 4: Sociology and Three Kinds of Relationships
• Natural Relationship
• Psychological Relationship
• a) Inherently deterministic association of psychological nature
• b) Extrinsically deterministic affiliation of psychological nature
• c) Psychological relationship based on freedom and will
• Contractual Relationship
• a) Deterministic Contract
• b) Voluntarily Contract
• Primary Movement
• Second Movement
• Third Movement
• The ‘Social’ as Demiurge
• Chapter 5: Human Sciences, Values and Understanding 
• Values and Understanding in Human Sciences
• Types of Interventions in Human Sciences
• The Unstudied Type of Interference
• The Intentional Type of Interference
• Epilogue
• Science, Secularity, and Deficiency
• Sociological Gharbzadegi
• Integrated Wholeness - Integrated Method
• Identity, Crisis, and Wholeness
• Sources
• Notes