Social Disintegration Research Articles

Local Perceptions of Water-Energy-Food Security: Livelihood Consequences of Dam Construction in Ethiopia

The concept of the water-energy-food (W-E-F) nexus has quickly ascended to become a global framing for resource management policies. Critical studies, however, are questioning its value for assessing the sustainability of local livelihoods. These critiques flow in part from the perception that the majority of influential nexus analyses begin from a large-scale, implicitly top-down perspective on resource dynamics. This can lead to efficiency narratives that reinforce existing power dynamics without adequate consideration of local priorities. Here, we present a community-scale perspective on large W-E-F oriented infrastructure. In doing so, we link the current debate on the nexus with alternative approaches to embrace questions of water distribution, political scales, and resource management. The data for this paper come from a survey of 549 households conducted around two large-scale irrigation and hydropower dams in the Upper Blue Nile basin of Ethiopia. The data analysis involved descriptive statistics, logistic analysis, and multinomial logistic analysis. The two case studies presented show that the impact of dams and the perception thereof is socially diverse. Hydropower dams and irrigation schemes tend to enhance social differences and may therefore lead to social transformation and disintegration. This becomes critical when it leads to higher vulnerability of some groups. To take these social factors/conditions into consideration, one needs to acknowledge the science-policy interface and make the nexus approach more political. The paper concludes that if the nexus approach is to live up to its promise of addressing sustainable development goals by protecting the livelihoods of vulnerable populations, it has to be applied in a manner that addresses the underlying causes that produce winners and losers in large-scale water infrastructure developments.

Radicalization—Protest Activity—Extremism: Modern Paradigms and Manifestations

The article examines the nature, basic models and manifestations of radicalization, protest activity and extremism. The authors have analyzed individual and contextual factors that foster radicalization growth and promote protest activity and extremist acts through the example of such communities as youth, migrants, representatives of LGBT communities and people held at detention facilities. The study revealed that the most significant individual factors that foster radicalization growth and promote protest activity and extremist acts are the identity crisis, loss of value orientation, lack of group identification, estrangement, deprivation. Disequilibrium of government bodies’ decisions, inconsistency between socio-economic society transformations and people’s expectations, destruction of the existing social value system, disruptive activities of radical factions aimed at social disintegration of the society, deformation of public legal awareness and forced fabrication of the mental model of personality (society) are among the most significant contextual factors of radicalization, protest activity and extremism. It is found that radicalization, protest activity and extremism are interdependent manifestations, generated by similar determining factors and based on the protest nature.

Metacognitive model of coping behavior of a subject during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mental experience is a necessary construct of self-regulation of behavior in a stressful situation. During the pandemics of a new coronavirus infection, metacognitive approach towards analysis of adaptation mechanism of regulation of behavior allows determining the resource potential of personality for the purpose of achieving social re-adaptation. Adequacy of cognitive assessment of a potential COVID-19 threat as a stressogenic factor characterizes the metacognitive model of coping behavior of a subject. Mental representations as coping resources of the system of self-regulation of personality define the nature of mental activity for overcoming a difficult life situation. In the conditions of COVID-19 pandemic increases the risk of mental disturbance due to cognitive dissonance in assessing the situation of potential threat as stressogenic factor. A destructive model of metacognitive activity as a method of regulation of stress resistance leads to maladaptive behavior of a subject based on cognitive distortions. As a factor of social disintegration, cognitive deteriorations negatively affect the subjective level of stress resilience, increasing the risk of chronification psychoemotional tension. The pilot research on the basis of Google platform involved 48 students. The assessment of acquired results is conducted with the use of correlation-regression analysis. It is determined that the adequate cognitive assessment of potential risk of coronavirus infection explains the internal constructive ensemble of the strategies of coping behavior with stressogenic situation of behavior. Therefore, the effective strategies of metacognitive regulation of behavior of a subject pertaining to COVID-19 contribute to social re-adaptation, associated with the need for inner transformation. Metacognitive model of dysfunctional fear regarding the threat of COVID-19 characterizes the external vector of destructive repertoire of coping strategies for regulation of behavior of a subject, and reflects negatively on the personal level.  Therefore, semantic field of metacognitive model of social re-adaptation by means of subjective control of behavior substantiates individual differences in the level of personal anxiety as a factor of stress resilience.

The Prisoner’s Dilemma as a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Value-Related and Behavioral Changes in Western Societies in the Second Decade of the 21st Century: The Case of Israel

In the popular media and from time to time in the social science literature, voices are heard describing a process of social disintegration and the deterioration of common values in western societies. What may account for this fragmentation? This article uses the theoretical framework of the prisoner’s dilemma to conceptualize the phenomenon, analyze its causes and processes, and to try and outline directions for dealing with it, using processes and data regarding the Israeli society in recent years.

Substance use and suicide among men in Ghana: A qualitative study

A known risk factor for suicide globally is substance use. Despite being public health problems across the globe, research on the association between suicide and substance use have often ignored the socio-cultural context in which these behaviors play out. This qualitative study examines bereaved persons’ perception of the roles of substance use in the lifestyles and the suicides of their deceased relations. We conducted an in-depth qualitative interview with between two to seven close relations of nine men who killed themselves in Ghana in the period 2014 and 2015. A qualitative content analysis of bereaved persons’ accounts shows three themes: Behavioral changes connected with substance use, Consequences of substance use and misuse, and Alcohol presence in the suicide act. Thus, novel and excessive alcohol or drug use followed economic, financial, or relational stressors faced by the men. Personal disruption and social disintegration occurring as consequences of continued substance use triggered suicidal behaviors, which in turn appeared to have shaped in particular, use of alcohol as ingredients or tools in the suicide acts itself in some of the suicides. Contextual nuances shaping a dynamic interrelationship between substance use and suicide calls attention to viewing substances as ingredients with shifting functions during the suicidal process. We propose that encouraging emotional disclosure, supporting men with problem-solving skills, and regulating the availability and use of substances through effective alcohol and drug policies may be vital for an integrative public health approach towards suicide prevention in Ghana.

Male 'Somaliness' in diasporic contexts: Somali authors' evaluative evocations

Addressing five texts by four Somali authors—Nuruddin Farah’s Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora (2000) and North of Dawn (2018) in juxtaposition with three novels by female Somali authors, i.e. Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise (2003), Cristina Ali Farah’s Little Mother (201; Italian original 2007) and Igiaba Scego’s Adua (English translation 2017, Italian original 2015)—this article assesses the work these texts do to enhance contemporary understanding of the complex, evolving phenomenon that is the diasporic Somali presence in Western Europe, focusing on Somali men. How do the authors portray and (implicitly or overtly) evaluate how diasporic male Somalis cope in foreign, non-Muslim and culturally Western environments—against the backdrop of Somalia’s state collapse and social disintegration? Somali men’s experiences have generally been given less attention than those of their female counterparts, hence the focus here on male-gendered characters. This focus serves to link the two Nuruddin Farah texts and the three novels by Somali women—a textual grouping and focus not previously attempted in critical studies of Farah’s work. This brief essay assesses the five texts’ respective combinations of evaluative evocation, affective intensity and epistemological detail, approaching these works as complementing social science researchers’ efforts in depicting diasporic Somali men’s lives. By deepening understanding of the impact of the diaspora on individual Somali men, the five texts convey significant psychological, social and moral insights into lives of Somali men in foreign contexts.

The Sociological Analysis of the Legislation: the Revision of Traditional Approaches and Proposals for Contemporary Directions

The article is dedicated to the review of traditional approaches and the development of proposals for contemporary sociological analysis of legislation. Analyzing the existing attempts of sociological analysis of legislation, the author concludes that their theoretical and methodological limitations arised from the paradigm of social facts, the dominance of structuralist-positivist research optics, the lack of practice of specific sociological research. This, in the author's opinion, contributes to the informality of the categorical apparatus of sociological research of legislation, legal reduction of the social nature of law within the sociology of law, replacement of the current role of sociologist by a social technologist who is deprived of intellectual freedom and depends on the intentions of the actors of the legislative process. Based on the «Coleman's boat» analytical scheme and J. Ritzer's integrated 4-level social analysis, the author identifies theoretical gaps in the traditional research scheme of sociological analysis of legislation at the macro-subjective and micro-objective levels. The article proposes to modernize the consideration of legislation from the standpoint of socio-cultural approach (as a socio-cultural space that produces, translates and defines a system of values, symbols, meanings, nominations, identifications, rituals, myths) and through the application of the theory of social practices. Based on the context of active legislative changes that causes the emergence of new social phenomena, the author concludes the necessity of theoretically reconstruction the sociological analysis of legislation by strengthening the concept of "social effectiveness of legislation" by risk-analytical perspective. This allows the involvement of all levels of social reality, as well as to identify the hidden and non-obvious social consequences of the introduction, change or repeal of legal norms. On the example of the analysis of the laws of Ukraine "On purififcation of power" and "On voluntary amalgamation of territorial communities" among the potential areas of social risk, the author proposes to identify areas of potential conflict, social disintegration, social inequality, discrimination, accompanying the results of legislative activity.

СОЦІАЛЬНЕ ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ВНУТРІШНЬО ПЕРЕМІЩЕНИХ ОСІБ В УМОВАХ ДЕЦЕНТРАЛІЗАЦІЇ НА СХОДІ УКРАЇНИ

For more than six years, forced internal displacement has remained one of the main challenges and priorities of Ukraine's public policy. Under the difficult conditions of forced relocation, the state has a number of obligations to strengthen the protection of the human rights of internally displaced persons. Social cohesion is one of the basic doctrines of modern society. It involves the active participation of the population in solving pressing problems of life, in overcoming social isolation and social disintegration. An organic component of the latter is the system of social protection of internally displaced persons in the context of decentralization of power in eastern Ukraine, adequate to the nature of the functioning and development of market relations. The article substantiates the theoretical aspects of the implementation of state social security policy in the decentralization of power, the conceptual basis for choosing a national model of economic development of the economic system in the context of the social component of state policy (the state of parameters of socio-economic model of national economy). functioning of the modern economic system, the genesis of the modern model of the global economy) and methodological approaches to determining the needs and basic determinants of formation, development of social protection in specific historical conditions, as a form of socialization of the global economy (public policy expands its format to the system of providing social services as an attribute of the national economic system, reflecting the level of their socialization); analyzed the current state of the national economic system (in terms of deformation of the socio-economic subsystem, the risks of deepening social inequality) and identified social risks inherent in modern society, which allows you to choose the most effective measures to counteract the negative consequences; proposed a mechanism for regulating the implementation of social support for vulnerable groups, the functions of social protection institutions according to the appropriate classification (such structure clearly identifies their role in regulating social reproduction on the basis of complementary combination, reducing the risks of possible decline in living standards in crisis) and government action programs for overcoming the crisis in the country, taking into account regional problems of social protection, which will overcome the social disintegration of social insecurity of internally displaced persons and ensure equal access to social services in an inclusive development of the national economic system in eastern Ukraine.

Correlation Between Social Status and Health in Early Medieval Dalmatia

The early mediaeval period in Croatia is rarely mentioned in historical sources. The development of society during this period was greatly influenced by formation of communities, within which there were many inequalities. The social group one belonged to and its ordinance were the main factors in the material and spiritual life of mediaeval man. Within Croatia, during the Early Middle Ages the process of social disintegration and the formation of social groups/strata varied from area to area. However, it can be deduced that this process was the quickest and most complete in the most socially-developed area – the Eastern Adriatic coast. The basic hypothesis of this paper is that people who belonged to different social groups also had different living conditions, which was reflected in their health, quality of life and lifespan. An individual's social status was assessed using the archaeological context, i.e. form of burial. The assumption was made that differences in status were reflected in the manner of the burial. The criteria used to determine social status were grave architecture and quantity and quality of grave finds and goods. In order to assess the health of the individuals anthropological methods were used. These methods included the assessment of age and sex, as well as the analyses of pathologies that leave traces on dry bones. Multivariate statistical methods showed that even though there were social inequalities in the early mediaeval society, the individuals belonging to higher-ranking groups had neither better health, nor lived longer. The results of the analyses carried out in the course of this work show that even though social stratification did exist in the early mediaeval society, biological sex was a much more important factor in life expectancy and quality of life than which social group an individual belonged to.

Tragedy of Inequality: Dehumanizing “L’Homme Total”

nequality is amongst the most fundamental and formidable social problems of modernity. It thus does not come as a surprise that it is a major theme that cuts through multiple areas of sociology. However, the major limitation of most social research on inequality is that its focus is often limited to the redistribution of resources, be them material or symbolic. Indeed, some of the most important effects of inequality, ones that make inequality so crucial to studies of modernity, go far beyond unfair access to certain goods. These reveal themselves in elements of social disintegration, lack of social cohesion, multidimensional social exclusion, marginalization of large social groups and gaps between their basic frames of references, which can reach the level of mutual impenetrability. To achieve an integrated perspective, this study follows the lead of quickly developing frontier approaches in the cultural sociology of inequality, and, following its leaders’ appeals, focuses on another dimension of inequality that is complementary to distribution — a social recognition of personal and social group identities. This allows us to assess how economic forces associated with inequality interact with cultural patterns and cognitive processes which persist in the behaviors of both individuals and social groups. Following this line of inquiry, this study focuses on cultural and emotional mechanisms of recognition and how it shapes people’s identity and dignity, and tries to tie these mechanisms to cognitive processes, which shape people’s aspirations and can “ignite” their actions. This study is ultimately intended as a kind of “manifesto” for the sociology of culture and inequality, and thus includes calls for wider intra- and inter-disciplinary input and collaboration in these areas.

Globalism after COVID-19 Pandemic: A Turning Point in the Separation of Social and Economic Aspects

A global pandemic caused by a microscopic enemy, which outbroke in Wuhan, China, quickly spread throughout the modern world, bringing world’s largest economies to a halt. By March 2020, the whole world was impacted by the ripple effects of COVID-19 and was in the midst of battling this infectious disease. The pervasive economic consequences of the coronavirus are not a macroeconomic problem that can be solved or reduced. Instead, the world is seeing a fundamental change in the nature of the global economy. The immediate crisis is considered to have affected both supply and demand. Declining supply shall be considered as a short-term issue, that stimulus plans by various countries, including a massive plan by the US government, along with historic low interest rates, may remedy. In this article we examine different scenarios of the supply chain’s future and its separation from social trends. Moving nations toward self-sufficiency may deeply alter globalization, which requires the division of labor between different economies. Unless strong economic policy measures are taken to prevent social disintegration, this change may be an end to globalization. Hence, many global leaders have implemented stimulus packages in an effort to relieve the economic stress felt by businesses and families, as a short-term economic stress relief. This pandemic has demonstrated the fragile nature of the US and the global trade system, due to majority of products being manufactured in China. There is an urgent need to expand manufacturing industries to various countries rather than concentrate most of them in one location. This pandemic will result in a shift to self-sufficiency, in the short-term, within borders. However, in the long-run, it will re-define globalization to include more countries functioning as micro-hubs for production, which should be implemented to avoid the “all eggs in one basket” scenario. In addition, this system will enable smaller economies to participate in the global platform.

Transitional Society in Modificatory Conditions and Challenges of Fourth Industrial Revolution

The object of this study is the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0.) on social life and modernization processes in Ukraine. The prognostic analysis of the Fourth industrial revolution consequences for modern Ukrainian society is the purpose of this research. The article deals with the obvious consequence of Industry 4.0 elements (such as the Internet providing, robotics, and digitization) implementation in both the countries of the center of the "World-system" as well as transition societies. It's the threat of mass increase in unemployment, the spread of spontaneous forms of population migration, incessant marginalization of social life and urbanistic environment threats deepening. It is proved in this research that it’s the richest and most intellectual part of society who gets benefits and is able to take full advantage of the latest technologies from the implementation of Industry 4.0 results. At the same time low-skilled workers will face the threat of job loss and permanent job searching process due to the implementation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution achievements. To our mind, massive increase in unemployment in Ukraine as well as other Central and Eastern European countries due to Industry 4.0 will turn into a serious source of social protests and instability, causing unprecedented challenges for the social life. It is stated in the research work that in a situation of economic backwardness, obsolescence of fixed industrial assets, merging of authorities with oligarchy, and the spread of corruption, the over-rapid implementation of Industry 4.0 elements in transition societies can lead to social disintegration processes increasing. Thus, the key criterion for the implementation of Industry 4.0 in transitional societies should be matching public needs with the interests of a particular citizen. We consider that the research of its impact on symbolic production and exchange, the way of everyday life, and the transformation of the urban environment in the Europe, in particular the countries of Central and Eastern European community, is particularly important. It’s necessary because the marginalization of a large part of the population, social pessimism and high migration expectations diminished critical thinking and developed of fascination with historical mysteries, myths or plots of TV programs, and etc.

Modal Sosial dan Integrasi Sosial: Asimilasi dan Akulturasi Budaya Masyarakat Multikultural di Polewali Mandar, Sulawesi Barat

This research aims to explain the role of the social capital of local community in integration process of inter-sociocultural. Discourse of multicultural society is important to be known because the difference of social community has a big potential to be a social disintegration. Nevertheless, the social life, which has different of culture, was not always occurred the disunion. Local wisdoms of community as social capital could facilitate an adhesive social so that they lived in social harmony. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative describing inter-ethnic social integration by taking place Wonomulyo, Polewali Mandar, West Sulawesi, one of provinces in Indonesia. The data collection techniques were observation, depth interview, and documentation. Withdrawal informants were done by purposive sampling. The theory used in this study was social capital by Robert Putnam and Pierre Bourdieu. This theory explained social capital by studying social habitus of local community. The results showed that social capital of local community had a role on processing integration of community that differ ethnic and culture. As a result, the ethnic groups integrated well was characterized by social relationships among ethnic groups remain in a stable state and bound in the integration of groups. Then, the equilibrium of groups created assimilation and acculturation of culture in the society. The ethnic groups cooperated each other in economy and social activity and there was no social conflict among them.

En busca del espacio perdido. La crisis y el espacio urbano en <em>La habitación oscura</em> de Isaac Rosa y <em>Animales domésticos</em> de Marta Sanz

Las novelas escritas en torno a la crisis financiera de los últimos años en España tienen en común la representación de un espacio urbano que aparece como mucho más que un telón de fondo. En este artículo queremos acercarnos a dos novelas, La habitación oscura de Isaac Rosa y Animales domésticos de Marta Sanz, que retratan la crisis y la precrisis respectivamente, desde la perspectiva del espacio urbano. La desintegración social y económica tiene un reflejo en el espacio de la ciudad, o podría decirse al revés, el espacio de la ciudad sirve de espejo para la descomposición que se teje en las novelas. En relación a esto destacamos y profundizamos en tres fenómenos: la representación de la ciudad como una arcadia traicionada, el desmoronamiento de ciertos espacios con la exclusión que esto conlleva, y finalmente, la esfera subterránea de la ciudad y su relación con la muerte.

PENEGAKAN HUKUM DALAM PERSPEKTIF HUKUM PROGRESIF

<p><em>The </em><em>Failure to enforce law and justice will be one of the factors of social dis-integration. If it is responded well and systematically it will be a threat to a country's failure. These initial symptoms can be seen from the emergence of various vigilante acts. The empty spaces filled with violence are caused by the vacuum of law. The law fails to do its job to solve social problems that arise. The explanation in this paper seeks to analyze the root problem of the failure of law enforcement in Indonesia seen in the perspective of the legal system by Friedman. To analyze the solution, the perspective used is an analysis of the style of progressive law as stated by Satjipto Rahardjo. The use of these two perspectives is expected to be able to describe well the real fundamental problem in our current law enforcement</em></p>

Urban annexation of the rural:kebunculture in Malaysia

‘Kebunculture’ is a distinctive, emergent form of rural sensibility and social‐economic relations in Malaysia. As a contribution to theories of ‘planetary’ or thoroughgoing urbanization, the ethnographic evidence presented in the article illustrate a case of urban annexation of rurality, in whichkebun(orchards) are detached from the social organization of rural villages and incorporated into urban‐centered Malay society.Kebun, as productive land with non‐rice crops, have traditionally been associated with rural kampung (village). In the late twentieth century, thoroughgoing urbanization, driven by both rural‐to‐urban migration and in situ urbanization of rural kampung, simultaneously produced a social disintegration of Malay kampung and increasingly urban‐oriented Malay society. Thekebun, which previously was an ancillary part of kampung social ecology has become dissociated from kampung and instead operates as an annex of urban‐centered social lives.Kebunare also distinctively individuated rather than communal socio‐economic projects. In both reserve lands and kampung areas, urban‐based Malays and rural‐to‐urban return migrants are involved in kebun projects, through which they engage with nostalgic notions of rurality, but without the social entanglements of kampung social relations. At the same time, throughkebunprojects, urban Malay subjects enter into new social relations, albeit ones marked by commodification.

PENERAPAN SOSIODRAMA DALAM MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MENGELOLA KONFLIK REMAJA

The process of human development is inseparable from the influence of the environment, so the development of adolescents who sit in junior high school will be different from adolescents in high school, or in college, even though human life is definitely not going to be separated from the past and the future. Adolescence is one of the development periods experienced by humans in their lives. During the transition, adolescents are in an unstable condition. There is a feeling of insecurity, because they have to change or change the behavior patterns of adolescents from children to adults. From this transition period the potential for social conflict arises, because of the desire to meet human needs. Sociodrama is one of the techniques in group guidance that aims to solve social problems that arise in human relationships that can be implemented if most group members face similar social problems, or if they want to practice or change certain attitudes. Conflicts can have positive or negative effects, and they always exist in life. The problem is how the conflict can be managed in such a way that it does not cause social disintegration. Therefore, it needs a conflict management, so that the conflict can be controlled and directed

Penegakan Hukum Dalam Perspektif Hukum Progresif

The Failure to enforce law and justice will be one of the factors of social dis-integration. If it is responded well and systematically it will be a threat to a country's failure. These initial symptoms can be seen from the emergence of various vigilante acts. The empty spaces filled with violence are caused by the vacuum of law. The law fails to do its job to solve social problems that arise. The explanation in this paper seeks to analyze the root problem of the failure of law enforcement in Indonesia seen in the perspective of the legal system by Friedman. To analyze the solution, the perspective used is an analysis of the style of progressive law as stated by Satjipto Rahardjo. The use of these two perspectives is expected to be able to describe well the real fundamental problem in our current law enforcement

Out of Time: Temporal Conflict in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho

ABSTRACTThis essay offers a new interpretation of Gothic temporality through a case study of Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). Whereas most scholarship on Gothic temporality focuses on the relationship between past and present, I consider how the Gothic interrogates multiple, conflicting forms of time within the historical moment of the 1790s. Drawing on the sociology of time, I argue that Radcliffe dramatizes a conflict between two competing temporal modes: sentimental time, embodied in the “moment,” and aesthetic time, embodied in the “day” and “scene.” Whereas the moment had functioned as a crucial formal principle in both sentimental fiction and empiricist philosophy, for Radcliffe it becomes a threatening emblem of social fragmentation and psychic disintegration. Udolpho contrasts the fragmentary moment with the unifying, aestheticized forms of the “day” and the “scene,” developed in the protagonist’s encounters with sublime and picturesque landscapes. However, if aesthetic time reestablishes a sense of harmony, it also entails an escape from the conflicts of social life and the temporal character of narrative itself. I conclude that the multiplication of temporal forms in Udolpho is intimately linked with anxieties about both social cohesion and psychological continuity in the 1790s.

Poligami Perspektif Hermeneutika Fazlur Rahman

Polygamy is one area that is still warm to be discussed. Sensitivity is very flexible when faced with psychological and emotional factors of women. In this part, there was a polemic and many rejected it. And not a few women also agree to polygamy. There is also in the realm of economics, power and order of disharmony become part of the reasons for men to carry it out heavily. Because this part demands justice. It is at this point that the focus of study and academic anxiety is viewed from the aspect of hermeneutic science. The term hermeneutics is often used as a method of interpretation in the Qur'an because hermeneutics is the reading of texts from the historical side and the relativity of life. Even more hermeneutics is interpreted as an understanding of the contextual to look for the meaning behind the text of the verse. Related to the interpretation of the verse polygamy, among some classical commentators say that, the context of polygamy in the Qur'an is still permissible, because the interpretation uses the understanding of the text in the sense that it is in accordance with what is mentioned in the Qur'an without considering the implications will happen in life. However, there are contemporary scholars who offer to be tested and reviewed their sociological value so that social disintegration does not occur. This is an interesting issue in Fazlurrahman's thought to try to reinterpret themes related to polygamy using the hermeneutic approach. Thus, this paper highlights Fazlur Rahman's hermeneutic approach that has been applied in interpreting verses of polygamy in the Qur'an.