{"product_id":"cultural-sociology-within-innovative-treatise-9780761859222","title":"Cultural Sociology within Innovative Treatise","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis innovative 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. Mahmoud Dhaouadi emphasizes the central position of HS in the creation of the identity of both the individual and society. That is, humans are Homo Culturus, a notion hardly found in social sciences like Marxism, behaviourism, structuralism, and psychoanalysis. This book explores the strong link between HS and the slow growth and development of the human body and claims that human duality is composed of the body and HS, not the body and the soul. HS explain some distinct human traits, such as why human babies learn to walk later than animal babies, the long human lifespan when compared with that of most animals' lifespan, the human mind, and the potential for the eternal survival of human thought. As such, HS constitute a cultural theory. Dhaouadi also asserts that HS have nei\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 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","brand":"Rlpg\/Galleys","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037871931735,"sku":"9780761859222","price":65.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780761859222.jpg?v=1750937939","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cultural-sociology-within-innovative-treatise-9780761859222","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}