Mahmoud Dhaouadi

Cultural Sociology within Innovative Treatise

Islamic Insights on Human Symbols

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Produktbeschreibung

This book stresses the distinction of the human race from other species by using what the author calls Human Symbols (HS): language, thought, religion, knowledge/science, and cultural values and norms. Dhaouadi emphasizes the central position of HS in the creation of the identity of both the individual and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9780761859222
• ISBN-10: 0761859225
• Artikelnr.: 35686543

Autorenporträt

Mahmoud Dhaouadi was born in a rural region called Zreeba near the towns of Kalaat al-Andalus and Aousdja in the northeast of Tunisia where no formal school existed. His father established the Qutab (a place for learning the Quran and writing and reading Arabic) to teach his children. Mahmoud studied his secondary education in the Zeituna school where Arabic is the single teaching language of all subjects, unlike most of the other Tunisian schools. His higher education was in USA and Canada where he received a BA in psychology and an MA and Ph.D. in sociology. He taught at worldwide universities. Professor Dhaouadi has published over 20 interdisciplinary books, over 200 essays, long and short articles, and book reviews, in Arabic, English, and French.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface PART I :New Conceptual Exploration into Cultural Sociology Chapter
I : The search for cultural sociology Sociology of culture and cultural
sociology Flirting with the development of theoretical social science
perspective Human symbols are central to human identity The legitimacy of
return to Basics Humans the great HS users Humans are excellent homo
symbolicus Potential explanation of HS to the late human walk HS
transcendental dimensions Language and the emergence of human culture HS
and human supremacy Cultural sociology as a core discipline Disorder in the
study of culture The HS centered approach Cultural sociology's urgent need
The Hunt for the other sides of phenomena Footnotes References Chapter II :
New Intellectual Concepts for Cultural Sociology Introduction The concept
of the other underdevelopment Linguistic Issues under scrutiny The social
psychological dimensions of the female Franco-Arabe The social
psychological dimensions of Adaa The social history of Adaa in the Arab
world Adaa and its social psychological meaning for Tunisian women The
condition of Tunisian women and the Parisian accent The pecking order among
the three social actors a- The continuing pecking order b- Persistent
inequality between the sexes Who Imitates whom and How? Conspirator
Tunisian Bilingualism Notes References Chapter III : Social Science Need
for HS Paradigm The concept of the human symbolic soul (HSS) Our ever
smaller world HS transcendentality Three meanings of the transcendental
dimensions HS and their transcendental dimensions Language and its
metaphysical / transcendental dimensions Transcendental dimensions of
freedom, justice and democracy The impact of HS tested in three case
studies Case study I : The Arab world as the outcome of HS Case study II :
Canada's syndrome of the two solitudes Case study III : Cultural dependency
is most dangerous The need for Verstehen sociology of HS Footnotes
References Chapter IV : Theory of HS and the Rules of Collective
Behavioural Patterns of Influence on People's Behaviours The chapter
framework Society and culture as means of understanding and explanation
Social determinism in sociology The hypothesis of culture as a dynamic
force of influence on behaviors Culture marginalization in theorizing on
individual and society The influence of collective behaviors on people's
The full social influence The rules of non full influence of collective
behaviors The rational choice theory The principals of the rational choice
theory The rational choice theory in question Rational choice theory and
collective behavior Conclusion The cultural roots of collective betraviouts
References Part II : Human Symbols in the Islamic Perspective Chapter 1 :
Cultural Profile from a Different Islamic View Introduction Subject and
purpose of this chapter The vague definitions of culture in the social
sciences The concept of culture from the Islamic cognitive viewpoint The
cognitive korantic foundational view of culture The features of some of the
transcendental aspects in HS Language and its metaphysical traits HS that
imbue human beings with great energy Towards sociology of the metaphysics
of H The harmonization of my perspective with reflexive sociology Foot
notes References Chapter II: The Aql - Naql Theory of Human Symbols and the
Making of Cultural Sociology The theory and its purpose ANTHS and cultural
sociology The missing inside nature of culture What is a theory? Basic
observations and the making of the ANTHS Potential explanation of my theory
Cultural sociologie as a cor discipline The Quran's cultural strong program
Conclusion References Part III - Three Case Studies within the HS
Perspective Chapter I : HS Behind Human Longer Lifespan Introduction The
phenomenon under study and its methodology The human species longer
lifespan The biogenetic perspective on the human lifespan The need for a
complex thinking approach The pace of growth and maturity of HS Years
difference between the child's muscular and linguistic development The
brain / mind and the human longer lifespan Cultural determinism and the
longer human lifespan Biology, genetics and HS Modern social sciences and
the missing transcendentality Social sciences unfit for HS study The
Islamic perspective as an alternative Human nature in the Quran The image
of man in the Quran Dualistic human entity and longer lifespan Footnotes
References Chapter II : Social Science Illiteracy of the Other
Underdevelopment in Post-Colonial Societies The wide illiteracy on the
Other Underdevelopment The bipolar nature of the OU The cultural linguistic
underdevelopment 1-Linguistic underdevelopment a- Black Africa linguistic
underdevelopment b- North Africa linguistic underdevelopment c- Linguistic
underdeveloment in Asia and Central America 2- Third World's
underdevelopment in modern social sciences and knowledge a) Western
monopoly in modern sciences and knowledge b) Third world's past
contribution in sciences / knowledge and its dependency on the west. c) The
short slightness of western vision in sciences / knowledge d) The ethics of
western sciences / knowledge e) The ethics of Islamic sciences / knowledge
f) Third world's major obstacles to self developed sciences/knowledge g)
Self made sciences / knowledge's role in development 3) Third World's
underdevelopment in cultural values system a) the general and subtle rule
of cultural exchanges b) Western cultural disorganizing effect in the third
world c) Tradition / modernizations impact on Tunisian society The
psychological underdevelopment in the third world a) The definition of
psychological underdevelopment b) Cultural symbolic domination and
deterioration of self esteem c) Inferiority complex and linguistic
avoidance response d) Cultural values system and disorganized personality
The other underdevelopment as a psycho cultural system The roots of western
modern social sciences silence on the OU a) Causes of western ethnocentric
nature b) Causes of epistemological nature Footnotes References Chapter III
: The Arab Muslim World Set to Dialogue with West : A Cultural Perspective
The chapter thesis The HS theory HS and cultures dialogue Western science's
appeal opens dialogue with the West Huntington's theory in question The
Islamic east and the Christian west could dialogue The politics of
conflicts and tensions between the west and Islam References