Newly released: الخطر السوسيولوجي في نقد خطاب الحتمية الاجتماعية [The Sociological Danger in the Critic of Social Determinism Discourse]

الخطر السوسيولوجي في نقد خطاب الحتمية الاجتماعية

[The sociological Danger in the Critic of Social Determinism Discourse]

Casablanca: Publications of King Abdul-Aziz Al Saud of Islamic Studies and Human Sciences, 2019

Price: 75 MAD

Size: 21x14

Pages: 254

ISBN: 978-9954-9667-6-1

The contemporary world may be in a huge need of clarifications that sociology suggest, by looking at the major challenges facing it: a post-truth society, decline of political stability of democratic countries, the rise of populist politics… But this topic which has been trying since its inception to build a scientific knowledge, seems today to be in the grip of those who seek to transform it into a mere ‘tool’ of political frictions in the name of ‘social determinism’. This book is addressed to all those who are concerned by the intellectual misconduct of well-known figures in the fields of humanities and social sciences. Sociologists, like other researchers, are not immune to cognitive errors that can crowd them in the maze of extreme ideological narratives that may transform sociology into a kind of ideological struggle production.

This book sets off alarms bells to commit to the epistemological rules that govern scientific fields, and suggests to fill in various intellectual data, whether those produced by sociology or pure sciences, in order to enable non-specialists to know the basic issues inherent in the fields and practices of the social sciences.

Hassan Ahjeej is a Moroccan researcher in sociology and translator. He holds a doctorate in sociology of organizations. His work focuses on the epistemology of social sciences and sociology of religion.

Recently, he has published a book entitled: نظرية العالم الاجتماعي، قواعد الممارسة السوسيولوجية عند بيير بورديو [The Theory of the Social World, the Rules of Sociological Practice of Pierre Bourdieu] 2018. He translated some books into Arabic, including:

- The Individual and Society: The Basic Problems of Sociology, George Zimmel. 2017 
- Secularism and Industry Religion, Marcus Drslow and Arvind-Pal Mandira. 2017 
- History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Christian Dulacomban. 2015