Life and Thought
Taghi Azad Armaki, born in 1957 in Kashan, is a sociologist and full professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran. His research areas include theoretical sociology, cultural change, and the history of social thought in the Islamic world.
Taghi Azad Armaki, born on September 1, 1957, in Armak, Kashan, is a sociologist, author, and full professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran. He earned his B.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Tehran, his M.A. in Sociology from Tarbiat Modares University, and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Sociology from the University of Maryland, USA, under the supervision of George Ritzer. Azad Armaki served as the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Tehran from 1995 to 2005.
His main fields of work are theoretical sociology, sociology of Iran, sociology of the family, cultural change, sociology of science, Iranian intellectualism, development, and the history of social thought in the Islamic world. He is among the proponents of the idea of the "possibility of Iranian society," as opposed to views that emphasize the impossibility or collapse of Iranian society. He has also been active in research on cultural change and social surveys, including projects related to Ronald Inglehart.
Bibliography
Writings and transcribed lectures24 titles
Social Thought of Muslim Thinkers from al-Farabi to Ibn Khaldun
Theory in Sociology
The Sociology of Ibn Khaldun
The Sociology of Sociology in Iran
An Introduction to Theory Building in Sociology
The Idea of Modernization in Iran
Iranian Modernity, Intellectuals, and the Intellectual Paradigm of Backwardness in Iran
Sociology of Cultural Changes in Iran
Generational Sociology in Iran
Sociological Theories
Social Changes in Iran
Science and Iranian Modernity
The History of Social Thought in Islam from the Beginning to the Contemporary Period
Sociology of the Iranian Family
Sociology of Iran: The Sociology of Intergenerational Relations
Sociology of Development: Principles and Theories
Sociology of Controversial Science in Iran
Sociological Theories: The History of the Development of Sociological Theories
The Iranian Family
Schools and Theories of Sociology
Changes, Challenges, and the Future of the Iranian Family
Society, Politics and Culture in Iran
The Theory of Cultural Changes in Iran
Corona and Iranian Society
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