@article{2016,title={IBN KHALDUN MODERNITY AND MODERN SOCIOLOGY},abstractNode={Modernity is a world perspective whose origin leads to Renaissance activities and that is based on rational thinking. Sociology is a modern science emerged during the periods while rational thinking dominated. The aim of it is comprehending the scientific laws of the society and organizing it levelly. Ibn Khaldun lived in traditional times and constituted the sociology that he named as “ilm-i umran” approximately 450 years before the establishment of modern sociology. Creating the sociology based on the different paradigm in an irrational era is an interesting initiative and it will be possible for it to reveal quite fruitful results naturally as a result of comparing it with modern sociology. There has been tried to make the comparison of the sociology of Ibn Khaldun and modern sociology with this study and following results were revealed with their outlines; modernity and modern sociology are based on the rational determinism fundamentally. Therefore, modern sociology has an abstract sense of society. The societies have progressive differences that are developing historically; qualitative differences of the societies cannot be accepted. There is a distance between social theory and social reality. The sociology of Ibn Khaldun approaches the social reality together with historical, geographical, religious, social, psychological, cultural, economic, political etc. realities. It does not refer to abstractions. According to Ibn Khaldun, the society has an ontological nature. The processes suitable for its nature strengthens the society and the contrary processes weaken the society. There are very different and complex reasons create and affect each society. The societies are bound to cyclical change laws in the context of natural reality of them.},author={Metin GÜLTEKİN},year={2016},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}