Morteza Muttahari and Sociological Traditions:An Alternative Approach

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Associate Professor of Sociology, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies

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It may not be an exaggeration to argue that one of the most fundamental questions in sociological discourses is that who is a “sociologist”? in other words, what is the criteria of considering  or sidelining someone as a sociologist? Of course, this question may be of no interest for many readers in the 21th century but thanks to “postmodern turns” and making of parallel worlds, to question the criteria of sociologically is an act of going beyond Eurocentric vision of sociological imagination. In this context, I think it is high time to reconceptualize Muttahari within the parameters of sociological imagination.

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Sociological Cultural Studies
Volume 10, Issue 1 - Serial Number 31
October 2019
Pages 101-109

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