The modern sociology of religion is founded on the fundamental tension between Weber’s and Durkheim’s approaches to religion. In this article, I want to use the tension between Weber and Durkheim to address fundamental problems in understanding religious modernity, both in the modern West and in contemporary Africa. Weber sought to explain differences in the social effects of the world religion...

An element shared by sociology and history, and to a certain extent by social or cultural anthropology as well, is their claim to study society as a whole. Whereas economy, law, political science, religious studies or linguistics concentrate on a single aspect of society, the aforementioned disciplines aspire to integrate all aspects into a comprehensive and coherent picture. This requires, fir...

If. .. we were to treat Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa as utopia , not as ethnography, then we would understand it better and save a lot of pointless debate. Several writers have commented on the " radical changes " that occurred in the goals and methods of the social sciences consequent to the entry of Jews to notes that the shift away from Darwinism as the fundamental paradigm of the ...

Epistemological sociology or "sociology of knowledge" as part the science focuses on study social knowledge, i.e., linguistic, cultural, religious and political knowledge common in a society at given historical period At same time, Social reflects individuals' thoughts personalities different ways, while time being reflected their outcomes inventions inventions. Cognitive-literary one dimension...

abstractin this study the main goal is explain the achievements of development after the revolution as a unique and special phenomenon as “various local development” based on the specific realities of iranian society. for this purpose have been used of analytical and concept framework weber’s sociology in explaining the qualitative transformation. according to this model, in creating evolution ...

In a situation of paradigm pluralism modern sociology, the selection certain provisions for formation theoretical framework always causes difficulties and problems. On one hand, there is clear division sociological knowledge along line classical – non-classical, on other in present conditions this looks somewhat artificial and, according to many analysts, should be replaced by integration appro...

Ethno-religious conflict in multi-cultural societies has been one of the major causes of loss of life and property in recent history. In this paper, we present and analyze a multi-agent game theoretic model for computational study of ethno-religious conflicts in multi-cultural societies. Empirical factbased research in sociology and conflict resolution literature have identified (a) ethno-relig...

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Chaves (2010) argues that much of the work in the sociology of religion is susceptible to the religious congruence fallacy—the tendency to assume consistency between religious beliefs and one’s attitudes and behaviors across situations when they are in fact highly variable. We build on and extend this argument by focusing on intersecting group identities as a mechanism for identifying such inco...

In early 2020, the world was shocked by outbreak of corona virus (covid 19) that emerged in Wuhan, China and quickly spread to rest world, including Indonesia. The pandemic occurred Indonesia tested citizens who are known be multicultural with religion, language, culture, ethnicity race from aspect spirituality (divinity) social (humanity), because covid 19 does not look at religious strata. Th...