The Sociological Statement of Group Feeling Theory and Islamic World or “Is Ibn Haldun a Theoretician of Unconsciousness?”

Abstract

“Group Feeling Theory” is a key word for sociological analysis as it is prominent term to understand the intellectual personality of philosopher. Ibn Haldun has tried to understand the social structure and main actors of this structure on this theory. Certainly, antecedents and samples of this theory based on the society and world that it witnesses. In this regard, Ibn Haldun has witnessed to firstly Muslim societies and then the world. Social witnessing of The Muqaddimah focuses on rich materials that societies, including culture, religion and traditions, offer. Daily life and cultural and intellectual background determining this life are presented to attention. French philosophies are attaching an intellectual personality to Ibn Haldun due to the approach in which social actors are put forward. For these philosophies (J.F.A./ F. Clémenet) “Ibn Haldun is a theoretician of unconsciousness”. According to that, individuals forming the basis of society get habits that they are not aware of and this become their characteristics, gradually. But, in close up, this character is a result of unconscious actions of actors. Thus, human that such unconsciousness designate form the characteristics of societies that they belong to, unconsciously. Within this work; a) The effect and functions of these unconsciousness on all societies and Islamic world, b) The effect of Group Feeling Theory on education systems and socialization process (individual, social and global process) c) The position of Ibn Haldun in Turkish and World Sociology has been discussed.