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Dr. Hasan A. Yahya, Ph.Ds
Dr Hasan Yahya
is a human being and human rights believer, a professor, a philosopher, a
Palestinian by origin, a Jordanian-American by nationality and education, a
Kuwaiti by living his early career, a scholar by his thoughts. He is a
professor of sociology and an authority on Arab and Muslim cultures. In short,
he’s an American Arab writer.
His life, thoughts and actions were made through instruction, teaching,
communicating, negotiating or writing. To know more about Dr. Yahya,
this page will guide you to many aspects of Dr. Yahya Life
and writings on critical ideas and thoughts. He covered a very large subject
matter: Arabs, Muslims, Islam, social change, sociology, psychology, history,
philosophy, poetry, Arabic Poetry, art of teaching, and Arab-Muslim relations
with the western nations and cultures. His research was conducted about human
behavior, life satisfaction, and social change in a rapidly changing world,
taking into consideration, the advance technology, the global political changes
and the position of reducing conflicts among religions, beliefs, education
policies, and cultures for the purpose of personal or national development. He
is interested mostly in population movement and demography and social behavior
after migration from place of origin to a place of destination. His theory of Crescentology-Theory
C. is expected to be a new science for sociologists and psychologists to be
more involved in personal and social development and the process of conflict
management on both macro as well as micro levels. It is a science combines
philosophy with sociology, psychology and education in an interdisciplinary
major to create new job named socio-therapist. Universities and national
institutions should take Crescentology theory rules
to create a new world of peace through exchanging true knowledge about each other
among individuals (male/female), groups (Small or large), organizations (X, Y,
and Z), or nations (underdeveloped, developing, or overdeveloped).
Understanding in his theory is dependent on knowledge, where appreciation
follows to lead to a state of compromising and state of conflict free cultures,
nations, organizations, groups, and persons. Dr. Yahya believes in human rights, freedom of
speech, equality, justice, liberty to pursue happiness. Politically he is
liberal (by choice) with conservative beliefs (by force). Dr. Yahya does not believe in magic, or
superiority, he believes in the power of human mind and human hearts to come
together to close the gap between cultures of the East and the West, religions
of the Globe, minority groups' beliefs, and philosophies of the world. Finally;
Dr yahya published 20 books so far,
and 120 plus articles on sociology, psychology, measurement, poetry, politics,
and short stories.
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From the author’s Crescentology Theory Book:
CRESCENTOLOGY,
Theory C. of Conflict Management and Cultural Normalization.
Hasan Yahya,
Ph.D
CHAPTER
ONE - - Introduction
"There
is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more
uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new
order of things."
Nicolo
Machiavelli (The Prince).
Constructing
a new order of things is the purpose of Crescentology
or Theory C. of normalization among World Cultures. Let me echo Einstein's
saying and begin this subject with an article of faith, it runs as follows:
social science is made for human beings in their totality, not to serve certain
culture or certain ideology. This article is not practiced in social sciences.
Much of the existed social science serves limited audience which I might call " servants of their interests" or in terms of Karl
Mannheim, servants of their "Ideology". For this reason, I believe,
science has lost its objectivity and credibility in terms of serving humanity.
As a result, scientists as well as people, tend to be directed ( or institutionalized socially) to conform to their
"A" ideology as the best, and to stand firmly against "B"
ideology as not the best. Further, Bertrand Russell, the British Philosopher,
describes how scientists should deal with issues close to theory C, or Crescentology. He states:
"We
must devote ourselves, to showing, not how to secure victory for our side, nor
how desirable our victory would be, but how disastrous to everybody on all
sides a war must be. In the West, where free discussion is possible, important
men, especially scientists, of all shades of political opinion, should meet
together. It should be agreed that never in their discussions, must any one
raise the question as to which system is best....." Russell (1961:71)
Crescentology, or theory C. postulates this
vision-not only on peace and war- but on all cultural aspects on broader
boundaries to close the gap between cultures on the grounds of common future
which is the product of all civilizations together. Russell have shown certain
methods to close the gap of hostility among agents of mind among cultures,
namely, schools. He wrote:
"I
would have the schools in India teach the virtues of Muhammadans,
and the schools in Pakistan teach virtues of Hindus, I would have Zionists
taught the merits of Arabs, and the Arabs taught the merits of Jews. I would
have the West taught that even Russians are human beings, and the Russians
taught that not all Westerners are lackeys of capitalism." Russell
(1961:71)
Arnold
Toynbee shares some of these ideas and shows how Western outlook is narrow
towards other world culture and history. He wrote fifty years ago:
"Our
present Western outlook on history is an extraordinarily contradictory one.
While our historical horizon has been expanding vastly in both the space
dimension and the time dimension, our historical vision-what we actually do
see, in contrast to what we now could see if we chose-has been contracting
rapidly to the narrow field of what a horse sees between its blinkers or what a
U-boat commander sees through his periscope." Toynbee (1948:150)
While
in fact, Easterners also share the Westerners in such view of history, Crescentology, or Theory C. is expected to promote
individuals as well as nations coherence and
integration with each other on new grounds of exchanging Knowledge,
Understanding, Appreciation, and Compromising. The above excerpts stand
against the deviation from Theory C. and Crescentology.
Because the existed crystallization of national identity and normative cultural
values usually show the positive characteristics of "WE" culture as positive,
and show the negative characteristics of "OTHER" culture as negative
and may ignore the positive characteristics of the "OTHER" culture.
Theory C. in this regard, or what I termed "Crescentology",
will combine both "WE" and "THEY" images in a new
constructed image of C. zone which may include both positive and negative of WE
and THEY characteristics.
Theories
of Conflict
It
is apparent for social scientists that the statements
"there is no understanding of events is possible, without theory."
stands true. Brown Jr. (1981:xi) To be sure,
there are good theories as well as bad theories, but the very act of explaining
something demands a theoretical context. For this purpose, in order to
construct a body of ideas that may connect the disintegrated incoherent parts
not in terms of A. or B. ideology, but rather in terms of Crescentology
or Theory C. of cultural and social understanding which include both A and B
ideologies for the purpose of human survival against hunger, war, famine, and
disease.
Supporting
this argument, it is a common neglected knowledge of reality that each
individual, group, nation, or culture possess negative
as well as positive qualities and values. Political powers of these bodies
direct almost all its energy to educate and socialize the new generations only
those positive aspects of "WE" and only those negative aspects of
"THEY" instead of educating and socializing their new generations of
positive qualities in both A and B versus negative qualities of A and B
identities as Crescentology postulates. Crescentology or Theory C. is a method of acquiring
knowledge for the construction of new reality expected to promote global peace.
Such an attempt by itself is worthwhile to be supported, with the fact that
such an idea is too difficult and perilous to conduct with certain success. Crescentology or Theory C. is an intellectual call for
policy makers on both macro and micro levels for introducing a new order of
relationships among human beings to live in peace. Crescentology
with its broad understanding of cultures is different from other limited
theories. Compared with other theories, it would be grand theory of culture.
This implies description of the conflict theories exist in the literature.
According
to Boulding, almost all social sciences study
conflict. For instance, economics studies conflict among economic
organizations-firms, unions and so on. Political science studies conflict among
states and among subdivisions and departments within larger organizations.
Sociology studies conflict within and between families, racial and religious
conflict, and conflict within and between groups. Anthropology studies conflict
between cultures. Psychology studies conflict within the person. History is
largely the record of conflict. Even geography studies the endless war of
components of nature, for example, the sea against the land, and of one land
form or use against another. Boulding emphasized that
"conflict is an important part of the specialized study of industrial
relations, international relations, or any other relations." Boulding (1973:113)
From
the above statement, we may deduce the following types of conflict theories:
a.
Theories claim that the impetus for human conflict springs from
human
nature itself or biologically. Psychological theorists argue
that
aggressive behavior (conflict) results from a psychological condition of stress
and frustration.
b.
Other theorists point out that conflict comes usually from the distribution of
wealth, goods, and class struggle.
c.
A third group of theorists assert that conflict emerges from cultural
differences with no common commitment to national symbols and beliefs. Such
differences are, for example, race, language, ethnicity, religion, or
generational differences.
d.
A fourth category of conflict theories states that world growth, technological
progress, scientific knowledge supremacy, and consumptions of resources are
some of causes of conflict.
As
we see all these theories are interested in political or psychological, or
economic, or social conflict. Therefore, their assumptions about human nature
differ accordingly. For instance, according to the first type of theories,
conflict began with Adam after he and Eve left the gates of Aden. As a result,
these theories adapted the explanation which says that people have the excuse
for their actions without interfering political or social causes. This
situation can be described by the English saying: "Let him make use of
instinct, who cannot mause
of reason." Brown,(1981:229) Thisview
represents an array of disciplines such as literature of human beings,
religion, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology. The most proponents of this
type are: Sigmund Frued, who embraced the idea that
human mind is a veritable battlefield for three
subconscious forces: the ID, the EGO, and the SUPEREGO
which interplay to make up the human personality as organized by the LIBIDO.
In anthropology, Darwin and Spencer depend on the assumption
which draw the doubts about humankind origin, and as we may all know
that there is no controlled peace among baboon cannibalistic ancestors which
still survive after 15 million years is impossible, and the survival is for the
fittest. Thomas Hobbes gave a little respect to human beings
by pointing out three principal causes of conflict: competition, difference,
and glory. To keep people away from conflict among them, he suggested a
cruel king have to rule in order to keep peace.
Other
psychological group of theories suggest that
antisocial behavior springs from the innate responses triggered by frustration.
This group of theories depends on the assumption that "aggression is
always a consequence of frustration." (Dollard, 1939:1) While
aggression is defined as "a condition of causing harm either to oneself or
to others." Frustration is "the state of mind that result from the inability to obtain some specific
goals." Brown Jr, (1981:248)
Hegel
and Marx represent the second group of conflict theorists. They claim that
materialism and economic class conflict cause the
major troubles of societies. In terms of human nature, they claim that economic
institutions determine who get what, when, and how not human nature. Their
argument is that unequal distribution of material wealth have
created class stratification which leads to constant conflict among groups.
What resolve this dilemma of capitalism which represent conflict promoter was
in one word: Communism, through socialism.
The
third group of conflict theories depends on the assumption that different
cultural variables create disintegration and disruption. For example, the
internal strife within the national structure in South Africa, the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Middle East, Northern Ireland, Communist aggression in Afghanistan, the United States as
world police, the Balkans and many other examples represent this group of
theories.
The
last group of conflict theories depends on the assumption that the impact of
technological and scientific progress has had, and is having, and will continue
to have on social interaction. Such impact complicates the
matter for human beings and push them to live with confusion. In other
words, conflict is a result of applying scientific knowledge and inventions
implies nuclear family, high divorce rate, weak family ties, and social
vertical mobility contrasted with better quality of life satisfaction and life
standards. Unfortunately, such theories were faced by the misguided effort to
bring the comparatives of "more" or "better" to life
through science and technology has, in fact, introduced more conflict and less
good life in many areas of the globe under the so called slogans of change as
"modernization" or "post-modernization".
What
was surveyed so far is the existed conflict theories and
their assumptions about human nature and environment. As a conclusion, two
directions of such theories can be made: one is that man is conflict maker by nature, the other is that man is not a conflict maker unless
his environment presses him to. Environment of course can be described as nature, or human ecology where human beings interact
according to their groups, societies, and cultures. Crescentology
believes in the second direction where human beings are born pure good, and their social environment (parents, peer groups,
neighbors, and other factors) have different instable impact upon what human
beings (as groups or individuals) want, and what they realize in their everyday
life, or psychologically speaking, between people's aspirations and their gratification.
Where aspiration means: collective wants of society, and gratification is the
fulfillment of these wants. Brown Jr, (1981:248)
Each
of the above mentioned theories have different conflict resolution (or
management) which springs from one-sided theorization of (A) ideology as
against (B) ideology. Crescentology, however, is
introduced taking into consideration these obstacles of cultural and
institutional inputs and calls for a new undertaking of conflict management on
the grounds of knowing, understanding, appreciating, and compromising as steps
for solving conflicts in a holistic universal method. Similar attempts, in
fact, were made across history. Four examples of these attempts to satisfy the
original grounds of the science of crescentology are
given in the next section.
Excerpt from the author’s book on
Amazon.
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