Social Worlds: Elected Book of the Year at the Seminary

"The Social Worlds" is the selected book of the year in the seminary, according to the announcement of the News and Media Center for Public Relations at the Imam Khomeini Institute for Education and Research. The book, authored by Hojjat al-Islam Dr. Hamid Parsania, the head of the Sociology Department at the Imam Khomeini Institute for Education and Research, was chosen as the "Book of the Year" at the fifteenth annual conference for selecting the seminary's book of the year.

Parsania's book "The Social Worlds" consists of three sections, each comprising 14 chapters. The first section covers social action and knowledge, the second section delves into social worlds, and the third section explores social perception. The book follows a specific arrangement and organization. Despite the sequential and cohesive content of the three sections, each chapter and part can be studied independently.

In this book, firstly, human and social action is described and defined, followed by an examination of the human and social sciences based on the sciences of existence and human wisdom in Islamic jurisprudence.

The author asserts in this section that metaphysics is not associated with the human sciences nor does it belong to the natural sciences, but it is placed as an essential part of theoretical wisdom towards the human and social sciences.

The crux of the debate in different worlds lies in the relationship between the social world and the human world, where the relationship between the individual and society and the relationship between the agent and the structure are intertwined. The author attempts to use some strong points of Aristotelian wisdom to explain this relationship.

The Islamic world and the modern world are examples of the spiritual and material worlds. According to the author, understanding the identity of these two worlds and knowing the cultural boundaries of each makes it possible for today's hesitant individuals to make a wise decision to cross cultural boundaries and identity lines.