Modernization and Societal Sciences: In the Muslim World

Each civilization approaches human action, explains and solves social problems in its own way. From this perspective we can say that every civilization has its own “societal sciences”.

Societal sciences are disciplines that express societies’ attitudes towards social problems. They are all similar in terms of their subject, social function and conceptual structure; however, their content and approaches vary from one civilization to another. Societies that attempt to change their civilizational identity abandon the societal sciences of their civilization and try to replace them with those that belong to another one.