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Who is considered as father of SOCIOLOGY SUBJECT and for what reasons ?
Asked by azam khan,
20 Dec '11 10:47 pm
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Ibn Khaldoon: the founding father of sociology
Ibn Khaldoon learnt much from his meetings with all sorts of rulers, ambassadors, politicians and scholars, he came in contact with in North Africa, Muslim Spain, Egypt and other parts of the Muslim World. All of these circumstances and experiences seem to have contributed to the formation of his views on history, culture and society, neatly expressed in his book on history and concisely summed up in his well-known master-piece "Al-Muqaddimah ('Prologue')."
The revolutionary views of Ibn Khaldoon have always attracted not only Arab scholars' attention but the attention of many a Western thinker as well. In his study of history Ibn Khaldoon was a pioneer in subjecting historical reports to the two basic criteria of (1) reason and (2) social and physical laws. He considered the following four points worthy of consideration in studying and analyzing historical reports:
1. Relating events to each other through cause and effect.
2. Drawing ...more
Answered by hazir jawab, 20 Dec '11 10:51 pm
Ibn Khaldoon learnt much from his meetings with all sorts of rulers, ambassadors, politicians and scholars, he came in contact with in North Africa, Muslim Spain, Egypt and other parts of the Muslim World. All of these circumstances and experiences seem to have contributed to the formation of his views on history, culture and society, neatly expressed in his book on history and concisely summed up in his well-known master-piece "Al-Muqaddimah ('Prologue')."
The revolutionary views of Ibn Khaldoon have always attracted not only Arab scholars' attention but the attention of many a Western thinker as well. In his study of history Ibn Khaldoon was a pioneer in subjecting historical reports to the two basic criteria of (1) reason and (2) social and physical laws. He considered the following four points worthy of consideration in studying and analyzing historical reports:
1. Relating events to each other through cause and effect.
2. Drawing ...more
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Auguste comte is known as father of socology coz he started new theme...
Answered by vijay, 20 Dec '11 11:10 pm
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I dnt knw and dnt even want to knw as its the only subject i never liked and jus studied in my scl days out of compulsion....
Answered by Bhuvana, 20 Dec '11 11:03 pm
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