This study analyzes the phenomenon of tradition reading Yāsīn Faḍīlah in Jono Village, Tawangharjo District, Grobogan Regency, which is unique its procession, namely that there a slametan event permissible by request according to what ṣāḥibul ḥajat wants. The purpose this find out forms tradition, describe preservation and how symbolic meaning created Faḍīlah. method used qualitative with type ...

Bases for the concept of “consumption” in foreign classical sociology have been considered. The author’s theoretical scheme consumption analysis is developed. Approaches to within framework structural functionalism at level macrosocial are presented – these class and institutional approaches, based on principle social organization subordination. Social functions stratification establishment con...

This paper undertakes a philosophical investigation of the implications of the traditional Yoruba understanding of education for the contemporary African quest for development. The paper argues that the Yoruba conception of education is marked by the underlying philosophical principles of functionalism, moralism and progressivism. These principles, the paper contends, are of great relevance to ...

The paper, which begins with a brief summary of my anti-functionalist ‘Argument from Self-consciousness’, has two main goals. First, to show that this argument is not guilty of a Fregean equivocation regarding embedded mental predicates, as has been suggested by Mark McCullagh and others. Second, to show the argument cannot be avoided by weakening the psychological theory upon which reductive f...

Functional analysis is a tool with significant positive implications for library research because of: (1) its facility for investigating the social system of which the librar.y is an integral part; and (2) its direction towards heuristic considerations and metaphysical theory long neglected in library science. The sociological approach rather than the mechanistic or mathematical approach to fun...