1- A Taxonomy & Theory of Social Behavior – Toward a Framework for Studying and Developing Human Sociology
2- ISBN: 978-9933-532-80-2
3- Author: Mohamed Ziad Hamdan
4- Date (2015)
5- Language: Arabic
6- Pages: 629
7- Price: 30$
ABSTRACT
Studying this behavior for the purpose of understanding and shaping it into types and forms that are useful to the individual, family, school, and institution in their daily civic gatherings requires the presence of tools, measures, classifications, and theories that guide the goals and plans of researchers, specialists, and those interested in guidance, direction, correction, treatment, and behavioral development for the better…
Therefore, during the period 1993-2003, to achieve these tasks, we conducted comprehensive theoretical and field studies of social behavior in several Arab countries, to arrive at behavioral types, a classification, theory, and measure of social behavior, and a specialized tool. Measuring school social behavior… is not available or known at all before (as it seems to us) in the literature of psychology, social psychology, and sociology, both foreign and Arab. It is new in its terminology, identity, purpose, work, and results… and the ultimate goal we seek is the good of humanity through education, guidance, direction, correction, and objective scientific treatment of social behavior.
And Abd al-Rahman ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) wrote more than six hundred years ago, in the introduction to his presentation of the concept and principles of a new science he called: Human Civilization and Human Society (the science of sociology known today), saying: “And I know that the discussion on this subject is a new art, strange in its tendency, and of little benefit. Research has found it and diving has led to it… By my life, I have not come across any of creation’s discussions on its subject. I do not know whether they were unaware of it, and I do not suspect them, or perhaps they wrote on this subject and completed it, but it did not reach us. The sciences are many, and the wise men among the nations of the human race are numerous. And what has not reached us of the sciences is more than what has reached us… This art, which we have noticed, we find in it issues that are presented to the people of science in the proofs of their sciences.”
We also recently found, by scientific coincidence (October 21, 2014), an affinity with an American sociologist and social psychologist, Talcott Parson, who spent years attempting to develop a general social theory capable of explaining all social behavior in all situations and at all times throughout human history. This is exactly what happened with the current author, who spent fifteen years in tireless research into the facts of social behavior, which he found in the classification, theory, and behavioral tools presented in this scientific work.
We hope that researchers, specialists, and interested parties will not have to wait six hundred years to realize the importance of what we present in this scientific work for the life and future of the individual, family, institution, and society, and to invest it optimally in scientific study and research to understand and develop this individual through improving his social behavior for the better… as happened in reality with Ibn Khaldun’s theses in sociology, which Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) realized by chance or transmission about five hundred years later?!… which resulted in the West and the East being attributed, fairly or unjustly, the credit for establishing this new science (sociology), to Ibn Khaldun, who (fairly) laid its first original foundations?!
This comprehensive resource presents concepts, principles, types, definitions, theory, and tools for measuring school social behavior in 629 pages, with the following chapters:
Section One: Theoretical and Field Research to Build the Social Behavior Heptad
Chapter One: Introduction to the Problem of Education, Behavior, and Civil Society
Chapter Two: Concepts, Classifications, and Previous Studies in Social Behavior
Chapter Three: Psychological, Social, and Social Psychology Theories in Social Behavior
Chapter Four: Psychological and Pragmatic Dimensions of Social Behavior
Chapter Five: Critical Age Stages for the Development of Social Behavior
Section Two: Conclusions of Social Behavior Research
Chapter Six: The Thesis of Social Behavior Classification
Chapter Seven: The Thesis of Survival Behaviors in the Classification of Social Behavior
Chapter Eight: The Thesis of Progress and Excellence Behaviors in the Classification of Social Behavior
Chapter Nine: The Thesis of Theoretical Assumptions for Psychosocial Developmental Conformity
Chapter Ten: The Thesis of Psychosocial Developmental Conformity Theory
Section Three: Recommendations for Social Behavior Research
Chapter Eleven: Human Development Through Guidance Education for Social Behavior
Chapter Twelve: Human Development Through Preventive Education for Social Behavior
Chapter Thirteen: Hamdan’s Tool for Observing and Analyzing School Social Behavior